1933 in art

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See also: 1932 in art, other events of 1933, 1934 in art, list of years in art

Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Awards 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Closure of the Bauhaus.
• Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice.
• The mural, Man at the Crossroads, by Diego Rivera, is removed from the Rockefeller Center in New York City because it contained a portrait of Lenin.
• Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts.
• Ben Nicholson marries Barbara Hepworth.

[edit] Works

• Operarios by Tarsila do Amaral
• Horse by John Skeaping - a sculpture carved from mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo and now in the Tate Gallery.

[edit] Awards

• Archibald Prize: Charles Wheeler - Ambrose Pratt

[edit] Births

• February 18 - Yoko Ono, artist and musician
• February 8 - Richard Allen (abstract artist) Minimalist, Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker
• April 1 - Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor
• August 29 - Sorel Etrog, sculptor
• November 29 - James Rosenquist, painter
• December 14 - Bapu, cartoonist and painter

[edit] Deaths

• February 28 - Lilla Cabot Perry, Impressionist painter
• June 14 - Hans Prinzhorn, art historian
• August 8 - Adolf Loos, Modernist architect
• October 26 - José Malhoa, painter
• October 29 - George Benjamin Luks, portrait painter
• November 14 - Thomas Hayton Mawson, garden designer
• date unknown
  • Margaret MacDonald, designer
  • Harold Peto, architect and garden designer
  • François Pompon, sculptor
• Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, furniture designer
  • W. G. R. Sprague, theatre designer