Art year 1942
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Events
- October 20 : Peggy Guggenheim opens the avant-garde Art of This Century museum in Manhattan , which is also a gallery. She commissioned the architect Friedrich Kiesler to design the rooms .
- Edward Hopper creates his most famous work, Nighthawks , in oil on canvas .
- The German-Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon paints her last picture from the series of works in exile in southern France . Or theater? .
- David Hare publishes the surrealist magazine VVV for the first time in collaboration with Marcel Duchamp , André Breton and Max Ernst .
Born
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- January 7th : Björn R. Kommer , German art historian and museum director
- January 20 : Reinhard Dauber , German architect, art historian and university professor
- February 10 : Lawrence Weiner , American visual artist, representative of conceptual art
- February 16 : Ulrich Aust , German architect and monument conservator († 1992 )
- February: Abed Abdi , Arab-Israeli painter and draftsman, graphic artist, sculptor, blacksmith and lecturer
- March 4th : Henryk Waniek , Polish painter, set designer, writer, art critic and essayist
- March 12th : Fred Julsing , Dutch cartoonist († 2005 )
- March 31 : Anne Poirier , French artist
- April 23 : Edmond Baudoin , French caricaturist and comic artist
- May 5th : Patrick Poirier , French artist
- June 11 : Hellmut Lorenz , Austrian art historian
- June 24th : Uwe Appold , German designer, sculptor and painter
- July 3 : Uwe Nickel , German graphic artist and painter
- July 12 : Lothar Ledderose , German art historian
- July 30th : Sergio Ferrero , Italian artist and extreme sportsman
- August 15 : Toni Catany , Spanish photographer († 2013 )
- September 14th : Manfred Butzmann , German graphic artist
- September 18 : Marco Rota , Italian illustrator of Disney comics
- October 7th : Wolfgang Heilemann , German photographer
- October 7th : José Antonio Muñoz , Argentinian comic artist
- October 7 : Rico Weber , Swiss artist († 2004 )
- October 29 : Bob Ross , American painter and television star († 1995 )
- November 6 : Ferenc Gyurcsek , Hungarian sculptor
- November 12th : Sabina Grzimek , German sculptor
- November 19 : Calvin Klein , American fashion designer
- November 27th : Manolo Blahnik , Spanish shoe designer
- December 3 : Frank Sels , Belgian comic artist and author († 1986 )
- December 13 : Wolf D. Prix , Austrian architect
- December 17th : Ulrich Schaffer , German writer, poet and photographer
Exact date of birth unknown
- Georges Adéagbo , Beninese installation artist
- Hossein Amanat , Iranian-Canadian architect
- Arthur Amiotte , American artist and art historian
- Hanns-Jörg Anders , German photographer
- Javier Artiñano Ansorena , Spanish costume designer and set designer († 2013 )
- Gottfried Knapp , German art critic and author
- Jimmi D. Paesler , German painter
- Rolf Thiele , German artist and university professor
Died
- January 6th : Tina Modotti , Italian photographer and revolutionary (* 1896 )
- January 22nd : Walter Sickert , British painter (* 1860 )
- March 21 : Jindřich Štyrský , Czech painter, photographer, graphic artist, poet, representative of surrealism and art theorist (* 1899 )
- March 27 : Gonzalo Argüelles Bringas , Mexican painter (* 1877 )
- April 18 : Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American patroness and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art (* 1875 )
- May 23 : Charles Robert Ashbee , English architect, interior designer, artisan, art theorist and poet (* 1863 )
- June 10 : Gustav Gull , Swiss architect (* 1858 )
- June 14 : Heinrich Vogeler , German painter (* 1872 )
- after July 11th: Friedrich Adler , German architect and victim of the Shoah (* 1878 )
- August 9 : Arnold Genthe , German-American photographer (* 1869 )
- August 28 : Clara Arnheim , German painter and victim of the Shoah (* 1865 )
- September 7th : Cecilia Beaux , American painter (* 1855 )
- October 2 : Adolph Larsen , Danish landscape painter (* 1856 )
- November 11th : Billy DeBeck , American comic artist (* 1890 )
- November 19 : Bruno Schulz , Polish-Jewish writer, literary critic, graphic artist and draftsman; Victim of the Shoah (* 1892 )
- December 11th : Séraphine Louis , French painter (* 1864 )
- December 22nd : Hans Anetsberger , German portrait and landscape painter (* 1870 )
- December 26th : Frederic Storck , Romanian sculptor (* 1872 )
- December 27 : Reginald Blomfield , British landscape architect (* 1856 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1942 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Comics 1942 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Painting 1942 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Sculptures 1942 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Drawing 1942 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files