Art year 1941
◄ | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | Art year 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944
Overview of the Art Years
Further events
Art year 1941 | |
---|---|
The area of activity of the Nazi robbery organization Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg is extended to Eastern Europe. |
Events
Looted art
- The area of activity of the Nazi robbery organization Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg , founded in the previous year, will be expanded to Greece in early May and to all of Eastern Europe in June.
- June 5: After the occupation of Greece, the German special command Künsberg tracks down part of the Greek state treasure in Crete and transports 91 kg of gold to Athens, from where the German General Representative Günther Altenburg has it brought to Berlin.
Architecture and sculpture
- October 31 : After 14 years of construction, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, designed and implemented by John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum , is declared complete.
painting
- Pablo Picasso paints the painting Dora Maar au Chat . The painting shows Dora Maar , Picasso's muse from 1936 to 1943.
Museums and exhibitions
- January 18 : The Museu Marítim de Barcelona opens to visitors. Due to the Spanish Civil War , the previously planned museum opening was delayed.
- March 17 : The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC opens its doors.
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 26th : Kurt Laurenz Metzler , Swiss sculptor
- February 11 : Margot Middelhauve , German artist
- February 13 : Sigmar Polke , German painter († 2010 )
- February 20 : Buffy Sainte-Marie , Canadian musician, composer and performing artist
- February 22nd : Jack Darcus , Canadian director, screenwriter, painter and writer
- February 26th : Katharina Bott , German art historian
- March 25th : Richard Agreiter , Austrian sculptor
- April 1 : David Childs , American architect
- April 10 : Jamie Reid , Canadian poet, writer and art activist († 2015 )
- April 11 : Benno Hurt , German writer, photographer and lawyer
- April 13 : Jean-Marc Reiser , French comic artist († 1983 )
- April 25 : Markus Lüpertz , German painter
- April 27 : Lutz Ackermann , German sculptor
- June 6 : Neal Adams , American draftsman and graphic artist
- June 30 : Roger Blachon , French cartoonist († 2008 )
- July 23 : Heinz Anger , Austrian painter
- August 29 : Sibylle Bergemann , German photographer († 2010 )
- September 13 : Tadao Andō , Japanese architect
- October 5 : Manfred Bofinger , German graphic artist and cartoonist († 2006 )
- October 25 : Lynda Benglis , American artist
- October 26 : Bob de Groot , Belgian comic artist
- November 24 : John De Andrea , American artist
- November 26th : agnès b. , French fashion designer
- December 6th : Bruce Nauman , American conceptual artist
Exact date of birth unknown
- Christian Adam , German artist
- Pat Mallet , French comic artist († 2012 )
Died
- January 2 : Josef Strzygowski , Austrian art historian and founder of comparative art research (* 1862 )
- January 17th : Virginio Arias , Chilean sculptor (* 1855 )
- February 24 : Hugo von Preen , Austrian painter and local researcher (* 1854 )
- March 6 : John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum , American sculptor (* 1867 )
- March 10 : August Abbehusen , German architect (* 1875 )
- March 15 : Alexej von Jawlensky , Russian painter (* 1865 )
- April 5 : Emil Stumpp , German teacher, painter and press illustrator (* 1886 )
- April 8 : Mariusz Zaruski , Polish general, sailor, mountaineer, writer, poet and painter (* 1867 )
- May 5 : Ludwig Arntz , German architect, monument conservator and cathedral builder (* 1855 )
- May 27 : Oswald Baer , Austrian painter of the New Objectivity (* 1906 )
- May 31 : Rodolfo Amoedo , Brazilian painter (* 1857 )
- August 7 : Rabindranath Tagore , Bengali poet, painter and philosopher (* 1861 )
- August 16 : Felix Mader , German Roman Catholic priest, art historian and monument conservator (* 1867 )
- September 29 : Vilmos Aba-Novák , Hungarian painter (* 1894 )
- October 24 : Heinrich Brockhaus , German art historian (* 1858 )
- October 25 : Robert Delaunay , French painter (* 1885 )
- December 5 : Amrita Sher-Gil , Indian-Hungarian artist (* 1913 )
- December 30th : El Lissitzky , Russian painter (* 1890 )
- Wilhelm August Wrage , German painter (* 1861 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1941 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files