1911 in art

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Contents

1 Events
2 Exhibitions
3 Works
4 Births
5 Deaths

Events

February 2 – First issue of Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion
May 11 – A Futurist exhibition in Milan is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete
August 21 – Mona Lisa stolen from the Musée du Louvre
Creation of Der Blaue Reiter Group (first exhibition opens December 18 in Munich)
Creation of the Puteaux Group
Creation of the Camden Town Group

Exhibitions

One-man show by Eugeniusz Żak at Galerie Druet

Works

Umberto Boccioni - The Street Enters the House
Carlo Carrà - The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli
Marc Chagall - I and the Village
Giorgio de Chirico - The Nostalgia of the Infinite
Robert Delaunay - Eiffel Tower
Lydia Field Emmet - Olivia
Jacob Epstein - Oscar Wilde Memorial
Alfons Karpiński - The Parisian Street
Henri Matisse - L'Atelier Rouge
Piet Mondrian - Gray Tree
Emil Nolde - Maskenstilleben ("Masks Still Life")
Pablo Picasso - The Accordionist

Births

March 17 - David Park, American painter (d. 1960)
May 14 - Carl Abrahams, Jamaican painter (d.2005)
May 25 - Will Barnet, American painter, printmaker
August 10 - Bruce Ariss, American artist (d.1994).
September 2 - Romare Bearden, American painter, printmaker (d.1988).
October 9 - Joe Rosenthal, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d.2006).
November 11 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d.2002).
November 25 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d.1984).
December 25 - Louise Bourgeois, French painter and sculptor.

Deaths

January 19 - Valentin Serov, Russian painter (b. 1865)
February 22 - Carl Fredrik Hill, Swedish painter (b. 1849)
April 13 - William Keith, landscape painter (b. 1838)
April 19 - Ivan Grohar, Slovenian Impressionist painter (b. 1867)
May 5 - Halsey Ives, art teacher and curator (b. 1847)
May 8 - Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher (b. 1837)
August 1 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (b. 1852)
August 12 - Jozef Israëls, painter (b. 1824)
September 16 - Hishida Shunsō, Japanese painter (b. 1874)
November 10 – Félix Ziem, French painter (b. 1821)