Art year 1944
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Overview of the art years
Further events
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Events
- August 24 : Joseph Goebbels decreed the “ total war effort of the cultural workers ”. When the order comes into force on September 1st, this will result in the closure of almost all German and Austrian theaters and cultural establishments. Artists who are not on the so-called God-gifted list are also called in for so-called "war-important activities" .
photography
- June 6 : US Army photographer Robert F. Sargent takes the photo Into the Jaws of Death on D-Day during the Normandy landing on Omaha Beach .
painting
- When Piet Mondrian's death on February 1st, his last work Victory Boogie Woogie is still unfinished.
- The surrealist painter Salvador Dalí painted during his exile in the United States in oil on wood Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening . It is one of the most outstanding works of his paranoid-critical creative period.
- Sir William Burrell bequeaths his art collection to the City of Glasgow .
- The Great German Art Exhibition takes place for the 8th and last time.
- Edward Hopper paints the paintings Morning in a City and Solitude in oil on canvas .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 10 : Rory Byrne , South African racing car designer
- January 19 : Thom Mayne , American architect
- January 27 : Kevin Coyne , British rock musician, painter and author († 2004 )
- February 8 : Sebastião Salgado , Brazilian photographer and photo reporter
- February 21 : Richard François Aeschlimann , Swiss painter, graphic artist, draftsman, object artist and designer
- March 4th : Glen Baxter , British cartoonist
- March 13th : Holger Henze , German innkeeper and comic author
- April 8 : Odd Nerdrum , Norwegian painter
- April 19 : Lothar Romain , German journalist and art scholar († 2005 )
- April 28 : Doris Quarella , Swiss photographer († 1998 )
- May 5th : Christian de Portzamparc , French architect
- May 12th : Ada Isensee , German painter
- May 26th : Jürgen Hohl , Upper Swabian local historian and restorer
- May 31 : Volker Reiche , German comic artist
- June 5 : Hartmut Esslinger , German-American product designer
- July 13 : Ernő Rubik , Hungarian sculptor, architect and inventor
- August 8th : Derib , Swiss comic artist
- September 5 : Urban Gwerder , Swiss writer, artist and editor († 2017 )
- October 3 : Daniele Fagarazzi , Italian comic artist († 2019 )
- November 16 : Katharina Sieverding , German photographer
- November 17th : Rem Koolhaas , Dutch architect
- November 18 : Wolfgang Joop , German fashion designer
- November 26th : Roberto Fontanarrosa , Argentinian comic artist († 2007 )
- December 19 : Heinz-Günter Prager , German sculptor
- December 21 : Werner Busch , German art historian
Exact date of birth unknown
- Marcos Acayaba , Brazilian architect and urban planner
- Vladimir Borisovich Amokov , Russian artist
- El Anatsui , Ghanaian sculptor
- Axel Andree , German theater director, writer, painter and set designer
- Abbas Attar , Iranian-French photojournalist († 2018 )
- Dolf Bissinger , Austrian architect and painter
- Marikke Heinz-Hoek , German painter and installation and video artist
- Hans-Joachim Manske , German art historian and curator
- Christa Murken , German art historian
Died
Edvard Munch , 1905/1906
- January 23 : Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter and graphic artist (* 1863 )
- February 1 : Piet Mondrian , Dutch painter (* 1872 )
- April 6 : Erich Ohser , German draftsman and cartoonist (* 1903 )
- May 8 : Alexander Beer , German architect and master builder in Berlin (* 1873 )
- August 2 : Felix Nussbaum , German painter (* 1904 )
- September 27 : Aristide Maillol , French sculptor (* 1861 )
- October 4 : Karl Weinmair , German painter (* 1906 )
- October 27 : Arturo Gordon , Chilean painter (* 1883 )
- December 7th : Robert Jackson Emerson , British sculptor, painter and medalist (* 1878 )
Wassily Kandinsky , around 1913
- December 13 : Wassily Kandinsky , Russian painter (* 1866 )
- December 29 : Julie Wolfthorn , German painter (* 1864 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1944 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Comics 1944 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Painting 1944 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Sculptures 1944 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Drawing 1944 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files