1933 in art

Events

• January 12 – George Grosz emigrates from Nazi Germany to the United States.^[1]
• February/March – Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party in Germany to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
• April – Closure of the Bauhaus.
• September/October – "Henri Cartier-Bresson and an Exhibition of Anti-Graphic Photography" staged at Julien Levy's gallery in New York City.
• September – Artists Union formed in the United States as the Emergency Work Bureau Artists Group.
• 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 because it contains a portrait of Lenin. While he has been working on it, he has been joined in the United States by Frieda Kahlo who begins her painting My Dress Hangs There.
• Hans Bellmer produces his first Doll sculpture.
• Barbara Hepworth and John Skeaping are divorced; Hepworth is already in a relationship with Ben Nicholson.
• Paul Nash and other young British artists form the group Unit One to promote modernism in Britain.
• Kenneth Clark appointed Director of the National Gallery, London, at age 30, taking up his post in January 1934.

Works

Jacob Epstein – Bust of Albert Einstein

• Tarsila do Amaral – Operarios
• Jacob Epstein
  • Man of Aran (portrait bust of 'Tiger' King)
  • Primeval Gods / Sun God (double-sided Hoptonwood stone carving)
  • Portrait busts of Lord Beaverbrook, Prof. Albert Einstein, Robert Flaherty, John Gielgud and Dr Chaim Weizmann
• C. Paul Jennewein
  • Spirit of Justice (sculpture; Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.)
  • Western Civilization (pediment sculpture; Philadelphia Museum of Art)
• Frieda Kahlo
  • My Dress Hangs There (Allá cuelga mi vestido)
  • Self-portrait – Very Ugly (Autorretrato – muy fea)
• André Kertész – Distortions (photographs)
• René Magritte – The Human Condition (first version)
• Hilda Rix Nicholas – The Summer House (approximate date)
• Pablo Picasso – Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (etching)
• Diego Rivera – Man at the Crossroads (mural, original version for Rockefeller Center, New York, destroyed)
• Percy Shakespeare
  • Mephistopheles
  • A Mulatto
• John Skeaping – Horse (sculpture in mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo; now in Tate Gallery)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Charles Wheeler – Ambrose Pratt

Births

January to June

• February 8 – Richard Allen (abstract artist) British minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999).
• February 18 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician.
• February 27
  • Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (d. 2000)
  • Edward Lucie-Smith, British art critic and poet
• 4 March – John W. Mills, English sculptor.
• April 1 – Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (d. 1996).
• April 9 – René Burri, Swiss photographer (d. 2014)
• April 29 - Alison Knowles, Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker
• 11 June – Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (d. 2005).
• 12 June – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d. 2004).

July to December

• 8 July – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (d. 2004).
• 18 July – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave French postal stamps (d. 2004).
• 21 July – Laila Pullinen, Finnish sculptor (d. 2015).
• 18 August – Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (d. 2008).
• August 29 – Sorel Etrog, Romanian-born Canadian sculptor, writer and philosopher (d. 2014)
• September 18 - Mark di Suvero, sculptor
• October 28 - Michael Noakes, portrait painter
• November 8 – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (d. 2004).
• November 18
  • Bruce Conner, American artist in experimental film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (d. 2008).
  • Charlotte Moorman, American Fluxus performance artist (d. 1991).
• November 29 – James Rosenquist, American painter and muralist.
• November 30 – Sam Gilliam, American painter.
• December 14 – Bapu, Indian film director, cartoonist and painter (d. 2014).

Full date of birth unknown

• John Stuart Ingle, watercolorist

Deaths

• January 10 – Margaret MacDonald, designer (b. 1865)
• January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
• February 3 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzès, patron and sculptor (b. 1847)
• February 28 – Lilla Cabot Perry, Impressionist painter (b. 1848)
• March 10 – Émile André, architect and designer (b. 1871)
• April 16 – Harold Peto, architect and garden designer (b. 1854)
• May 6 – François Pompon, sculptor (b. 1856)
• May 25 – James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855)
• June 14 – Hans Prinzhorn, art historian
• August 5 – Charles Harold Davis, painter (b. 1856)
• August 8 – Adolf Loos, Modernist architect
• October 2 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (b. 1846)
• October 24 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (b. 1844)
• October 26 – José Malhoa, painter
• October 29 – George Benjamin Luks, portrait painter
• November 12 – F. Holland Day, photographer (b. 1864)
• November 14 – Thomas Hayton Mawson, garden designer
• November 15 – Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, furniture designer (b. 1879)
• November 19 – Louise Jopling, English painter (b. 1843)
• December 4 - W. G. R. Sprague, theatre designer (b. 1863)
• date unknown - Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (b. 1844)

See also

• 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References