1945 in art
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Events
- April 15 - Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated. Among the British war artists (official and unofficial) who record it soon afterwards are Sgt. Eric Taylor, Leslie Cole, Doris Zinkeisen, Edgar Ainsworth (of Picture Post), Mervyn Peake and Mary Kessell.[1]
- May
- Allied forces reach the Nazi stolen art repository in the salt mines at Altaussee in Austria, finding more than 6,500 paintings.
- Retreating SS forces destroy the Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings.[2][3]
- Ben Nicholson paints still lifes incorporating British Union Flags to mark V-E Day.
- July–December - Han van Meegeren paints his last forgery of a Dutch Golden Age painting, Jesus among the Doctors, before witnesses in Amsterdam to refute charges of having sold genuine Dutch cultural property to Nazis (for which he was arrested on May 29).[4]
- October 25 - Jackson Pollock marries Lee Krasner.
- Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.
- Professor Anthony Blunt is appointed to succeed Sir Kenneth Clark as Surveyor of the King's Pictures in the United Kingdom.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED
Exhibitions
Works
- Marc Chagall - Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio
- Leslie Cole
- Belsen Camp - The Compound for Women
- Death pits at Bergen-Belsen
- Salvador Dalí
- Russell Drysdale - The Drover's Wife
- Nora Heysen - Transport driver (Aircraftswoman Florence Miles)
- Jackson Pollock - Troubled Queen (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Joe Rosenthal - Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (photograph)
- David Alfaro Siqueiros - El Coronelazo
- Ben Shahn
- Death on the Beach
- Liberation
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff - Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Philip Zec - Here you are. Don't lose it again! (political cartoon)[5]
- Doris Zinkeisen - Human Laundry, Belsen
Births
- January 25 - Barbara Kruger, photographer, graphic artist and sculptor
- January 31 - Joseph Kosuth, conceptual artist
- March 8 - Anselm Kiefer, sculptor.
- June 14 - Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.2007)
- June 30 - Sean Scully, painter
- July 16 - Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist
- July 28 - Jim Davis, American cartoonist, creator of "Garfield"
- August 4 - Paul McCarthy, American sculptor, installation artist and video artist
- August 9 - Posy Simmonds, English cartoonist
- August 18 - Brummbaer, digital artist
- August 19 - Peter Reginato, sculptor
- September 27 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and Conceptual artist turned painter (d.2003)
- date unknown
- Robert Bishop, bondage artist (d.1991)
- Suzanne Lacy, installation, video and performance artist
- Catherine Leroy, French photographer (d.2006)
- Susan Rothenberg, painter
- Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist and sculptor
Deaths
- January 7 - Alexander Stirling Calder, sculptor (b. 1870)
- March 6 - Milena Pavlović-Barili, Serbian painter and poet (b. 1909)
- March 31 - Hando Ruus, Estonian painter (b. 1917)
- April - Josef Čapek, painter (b. 1887)
- April 22 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter, lithographer and sculptor (b. 1867)
- May 5 - René Lalique, French glass designer (b. 1860)
- June 15 - Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1897)
- September 16 - David Young Cameron, Scottish painter and etcher (b. 1865)
- October 24 - Franklin Carmichael, painter (b. 1890)
- October 31 - Ignacio Zuloaga, painter (b. 1870)
- November 23 - Ljubomir Ivanović, Serbian painter (b. 1882)
- December 20 - Ong Schan Tchow, Chinese artist (b. 1900)
- date unknown
- Thomas Hennell, painter (b. 1903)
- Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (b. 1891)
See also
References
- ↑ "Witnessing Belsen". Unspeakable. Imperial War Museum. 2008. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
- ↑ Jones, Jonathan (2009-05-06). "Klimt's Dazzling demons". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ↑ SheilaTGTG55 (2011-10-13). "The Fire At Schloss Immendorf". Open Salon. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ↑ Kreuger, Frederik H. (2010). Van Meegeren Revisited & List of Works. Amsterdam: Erasmus Books. pp. 152–155. ISBN 978-90-5959-060-1.
- ↑ Connor, Robert (1969). Cassandra: Reflections in a Mirror. London: Cassell. ISBN 0304933414.
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