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Events from the year 1919 in art .

Events [ edit ]

• January?June ? Paris Peace Conference at Versailles ; Sir William Orpen attends as British official artist and Noel Dorville as a French journalist-illustrator.
• April 25 ? The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar , Germany, by Walter Gropius .
• December ? The National War Paintings and Other Records exhibition staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
• Seven and Five Society established in London .
• Piet Mondrian , in Paris , begins painting his grid-based compositions ( Neo-Plasticism ).
• Musee Rodin opens in Paris at the Hotel Biron and Villa des Brillants, Meudon .
• Chaim Soutine first visits Ceret in the Pyrenees where he begins a series of landscapes.
• Les Champs Magnetiques , the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism , is written by Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault .
• Publication in England of W. Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin .

Works [ edit ]

• Norman G. Arnold ? The Last Fight of Captain Ball, VC, DSO and 2 Bars, MC, 7th May 1917
• Max Beckmann ? The Night
• David Bomberg ? Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company, Hill 60, St Eloi
• John Arnesby Brown ? The Line of the Plough
• Sydney Carline
  • Flying Above Kirkuk, Kurdistan
  • Flying Over the Desert at Sunset, Mesopotamia
  • The Trail of War
• Harry Clarke ? illustrations to Tales of Mystery & Imagination
• Dorothy Coke ? War Allotments in a London Suburb
• Philip Connard
  • The Guns of HMS 'Caesar' 1919 ? Off Constantinople, looking towards the Golden Horn
  • The Port of Constantinople ? The Guns of HMS 'Caesar'
• Leonard Crunelle ? Statue of Richard J. Oglesby
• Evelyn De Morgan ? The Gilded Cage
• Marcel Duchamp ? L.H.O.O.Q.
• Aleksandra Ekster ? City at Night
• Jacob Epstein ? Sergeanat D. F. Hunter VC, 1/5 Highland Light Infantry (bronze bust)
• Max Ernst
  • Aquis Submersus
  • Trophy, Hypertrophied (line-block printing and drawing)
• Luke Fildes ? Paul Fildes
• Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven ? Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (sculpture of found objects)
• Colin Gill
  • Evening, After a Push
  • Heavy Artillery
  • Observation of Fire
• Eileen Gray ? "Dragons" armchair
• Elioth Gruner ? Spring Frost
• Hannah Hoch ? Schnitt mit dem Kuchenmesser DADA durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands ("Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany"; collage )
• Augustus John ? Marchesa Casati
• Henry Lamb ? Irish troops in the Judean hills surprised by a Turkish bombardment
• Fernand Leger
  • The City
  • The Railway Crossing
• Ivor Lewis ? Timothy Eaton statues
• Wyndham Lewis ? A Battery Shelled
• David Low ? Strange, I seem to hear a child weeping ( political cartoon )
• Hermon Atkins MacNeil ? Statue of Ezra Cornell
• Albert Marquet ? La femme blonde (Femme blonde sur un fond de chale espagnol)
• Henri Matisse ? Les plumes blanches ("White Plumes")
• Claude Monet ? paintings in Water Lilies series
  • Le Bassin Aux Nympheas
  • Water Lilies
• Edvard Munch ? Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu
• Paul Nash ? The Menin Road
• C. R. W. Nevinson ? The Harvest of Battle
• Sir William Orpen
  • A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay
  • The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919
• Pablo Picasso
  • Le Tricorne
  • Still Life with Pitcher and Apples
• John Singer Sargent ? Gassed
• Zinaida Serebriakova ? House of Cards
• Charles Sims ? The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916
• Stanley Spencer ? Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916
• Edward Wadsworth ? Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool

Births [ edit ]

January to June [ edit ]

• January 5 ? Frederick Hammersley , American painter (d. 2009 )
• January 9 ? Henrietta Berk , American painter (d. 1990 )
• January 19 ? Joan Brossa , Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998 )
• January 22 ? John Russell , British American art critic (d. 2008 )
• January 24 ? William Copley , American artist (d. 1996 )
• March 23 ? Salvatore Scarpitta , American sculptor (d. 2007 )
• April 9 ? Gordon Lambert , Irish art collector (d. 2005 )
• April 24 ? Cesar Manrique , Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992 )
• May 3 ? John Cullen Murphy , American comics artist (d. 2004 )
• May 9 ? Anne Yeats , Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001 )
• May 27 ? Emvin Cremona , Maltese artist (d. 1987 )
• June 2 ? Nat Mayer Shapiro , American painter (d. 2005 )
• June 7 ? Mira Schendel , born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988 )
• June 18 ? Gordon A. Smith , Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020 ) ^[1]
• June 21 ? Jean Joyet , French artist (d. 1994 )

July to December [ edit ]

• July 6 ? Oswaldo Guayasamin , Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999 )
• July 17 ? Jean Leymarie , French art historian (d. 2006 )
• July 18 ? Daniel du Janerand , French painter (d. 1990 )
• July 31 ? Maurice Boitel , French painter (d. 2007 )
• September 8 ? Maria Lassnig , Austrian painter (d. 2014 )
• September 29 ? Vladimir Va?i?ek , Czech painter (d. 2003 )
• November 3 ? Jesus Blasco , Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995 )
• December 12 ? Cliff Holden , English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020 )
• December 24 ? Pierre Soulages , French "painter of black" (d. 2022 )

Full date unknown [ edit ]

• Avni Arba? , Turkish artist (d. 2003 )

Deaths [ edit ]

• January 22 ? Carl Larsson , Swedish painter (b. 1853 )
• February 18 ? Antonin Carles , French sculptor (b. 1851 )
• February 27 ? Robert Harris , Canadian painter (b. 1848 )
• March 24 ? Franz Metzner , German sculptor (b. 1870 )
• March 25 ? Wilhelm Lehmbruck , German sculptor (b. 1881 ) (suicide)
• May 2 ? Evelyn De Morgan , English painter (born 1855 )
• May 13 ? Helen Hyde , American etcher and engraver (b. 1868 )
• August 9 ? Ralph Albert Blakelock , American painter (b. 1847 )
• November 18 ? John Dibblee Crace , British interior decorator (b. 1838 )
• December 2 ? Henry Clay Frick , American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849 )
• December 3 ? Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French Impressionist painter (b. 1841 )
• December 18 ? James Coutts Michie , Scottish painter b. 1859 )
• Full date unknown ? Edmund Elisha Case , American painter (b 1844 )

References [ edit ]