Art year 1939
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Events
Exhibition poster ( Yokoyama Taikan )
- February 28 to March 31 : The exhibition of ancient Japanese art takes place in the Staatliche Museen Berlin under the patronage of Hermann Göring and Hiranuma Kiichirō . On this occasion, Japan is showing almost 30 national treasures in Berlin , i.e. objects of art that are actually not allowed to be taken out of the country. Adolf Hitler and numerous functionaries of the Nazi regime are personally present at the opening.
- March 20 : In the courtyard of the main fire station in Berlin-Kreuzberg , thousands of works of art from public collections that were ostracized by the National Socialists as degenerate art are burned.
- The Constantin Meunier Museum in Ixelles in the Brussels region, dedicated to the Belgian sculptor and painter Constantin Meunier , opens.
- In the United States the first appears Batman - Comic
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 7th : Rosina Wachtmeister , Austrian artist
- January 9th : Francisco José Gómez Argüello Wirtz , Spanish painter
- January 14 : Jean-Christophe Ammann , Swiss art historian and curator († 2015 )
- January 16 : Ralph Gibson , American photographer
- January 22nd : Krzysztof Zarębski , Polish performance artist, painter and sculptor
- January 24 : José Argüelles , Mexican-American painter and writer († 2011 )
- January 25 : Otto Wesendonck , German sculptor
- February 15 : William Van Horn , American draftsman
- March 1st : Dieter Asmus , German painter and graphic artist
- March 31 : Hiltigund Schreiber , Austrian art historian
- April 2 : Reinhard Bentmann , German art historian and monument conservator
- April 16 : Karlheinz Essl senior , Austrian entrepreneur and art collector
- June 16 : Heinz Tesar , Austrian architect
- June 20 : Josef Auer , Austrian university professor, sculptor and installation artist
- June 20 : Winfried Opgenoorth , German-Austrian artist
- June 24th : HA Schult , German object and action artist
- July 10 : Siah Armajani , American sculptor, film artist, and architect
- July 16 : Terry Atkinson , British conceptual artist, painter, draftsman and author
- July 27 : William Eggleston , American photographer
- August 5 : Otto Geiss , German painter († 2005 )
- September 16 : Breyten Breytenbach , South African-French writer, anti-apartheid activist and painter
- October 2nd : Heinz Zander , German painter
- October 5 : AR Penck , German painter, graphic artist and sculptor († 2017 )
- October 14 : Ralph Lauren , American fashion designer
- October 30 : Johannes Gachnang , Swiss artist, exhibition organizer and publisher († 2005 )
- November 18 : Amanda Lear , French singer, painter, presenter, writer and actress
- November 20 : Raúl Damonte Botana , Argentinian comic artist († 1987 )
- December 4th : Hans Friedrich , German painter and graphic artist
- December 4th : Harald Naegeli , Swiss artist
- December 5 : Luis Díaz , Guatemalan painter, graphic artist, sculptor and architect
- December 23 : Nancy Graves , American sculptor, painter and filmmaker († 1995 )
- December 27th : Paola Andrich , Italian artisan
Exact date of birth unknown
- Mehmet Aksoy , Turkish sculptor
- Lena Anderson , Swedish children's book illustrator
- Ludmilla von Arseniew , German painter and scientist
- Bernhard Eisendle , Austrian painter
- Renate Hartleb , German art historian
- Yak Rivais , French artist and writer
Died
- January 7th : Jupp Wiertz , German graphic artist (* 1888 )
- February 6 : Georges Gardet , French sculptor (* 1863 )
- March 26 : David Davies , Australian painter (* 1864)
- April 4 : Alice Hughes , English photographer (* 1857 )
- July 14th : Alfons Maria Mucha , Czech poster artist, graphic artist, illustrator, painter (* 1860 )
- August 7th : Rudi Opitz , German lithographer and photographer, Nazi victim (* 1908 )
- September 16 : Alexander Kircher , German-Austrian marine and landscape painter and illustrator (* 1867 )
- November 4 : Emil Wilhelm Artmann , Austrian civil engineer, architect and university lecturer (* 1871 )
- November 6th : Adolf Brütt , German sculptor and founder of the Weimar School of Sculpture (* 1855 )
- November 11th : Emil Rieck , German landscape, genre and theater painter (* 1852 )
- Karol Tichy , Polish painter (* 1871 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1939 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
