1929 in art
Overview of the events of 1929 in art
Overview of the events of 1929 in art
Events from the year 1929 in art .
Events
January 6 – On the death of New York collector Louisine Havemeyer , her collection of paintings, rich in works of Impressionism , is bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
January 10 – First appearance of Hergé 's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets (Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter..., au pays des Soviets ), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième .
January 17 – First appearance of E. C. Segar 's American sailor comic book hero Popeye in Thimble Theatre .[1]
April 30 – English painters Stephen Bone and Mary Adshead marry.
June 6 – Première of the Surrealist film Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí , in Paris .
July 5 – In London, Scotland Yard seizes 13 paintings of male and female nudes by D. H. Lawrence from a Mayfair gallery on grounds of indecency under the Vagrancy Act 1838 .[2]
August 21 – Mexican painters Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo marry for the first time, in a civil ceremony in the town hall at Coyoacán .[3]
October
October 12 – Joan Miró marries Pilar Juncosa in Palma, Mallorca.
November – The East London Group (for the first time under this name) exhibit with Walter Sickert at the Lefevre Gallery in the West End of London .
November 7 – The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City . An exhibit, "Cézanne, Gauguin, Seurat and van Gogh", at the new museum attracts 47,000 visitors.[5]
December 1 – Underground Electric Railways Company of London officially opens its new headquarters building at 55 Broadway designed by Charles Holden , incorporating sculptures by Jacob Epstein , Eric Gill and Henry Moore .[6]
Aeropittura ("aeropainting") is launched in a manifesto, Perspectives of Flight , signed by Benedetta Cappa , Fortunato Depero , Gerardo Dottori , Fillìa , Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Enrico Prampolini , Mino Somenzi and Guglielmo Sansoni (Tato) in Italy.[7]
Cercle et Carré group of abstract artists founded in Paris by Joaquín Torres García and Michel Seuphor .[8]
The Barcelona chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .
Henri Matisse makes more than 300 (chine-collé ) etchings and lithographs , chiefly of Lisette Löwengard.
Musashino Art University originates as the Teikoku Bijutsu Gakkō ("Imperial Art School") in Tokyo .
Curtis Moffat opens a gallery at 4 Fitzroy Square in London .
Karl Blossfeldt publishes a collection of close-up photographs of plants and living things as Urformen der Kunst: Photographische Pflanzenbilder in Berlin.
Awards
Works
Births
January to June
2 January – Anton Lehmden , Slovakian -born Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism (d. 2018 )
8 January – Poul Kjærholm , Danish designer (d. 1980 )
13 January – Roy Oxlade , English painter and critic (d. 2014 )
26 January – Jules Feiffer , American cartoonist
28 January – Claes Oldenburg , Swedish -born American sculptor (d. 2022 )
9 February – Clement Meadmore Australian -born American sculptor (d. 2005 )
24 February – Zdzisław Beksiński , Polish painter , photographer and fantasy artist (d. 2005)
4 March – Wolfgang Hollegha , Austrian painter
22 March – Yayoi Kusama , Japanese visual artist.
31 March
5 April – Hugo Claus , Belgian novelist , poet , playwright , painter and film director (d. 2008 )
7 April – Gabriel Caruana , Maltese artist (d. 2018 )
23 May – Vladimír Preclík , Czech writer and sculptor (d. 2008)
31 May – Nicholas Krushenick , American pop art painter (d. 1999 )
4 June – Davidee Itulu , Inuit artist (d. 2006 )
July to December
13 July – René Laloux , French animator and film director (d. 2004 )
25 July – Bryan Pearce , English naïve painter (d. 2007 )
29 July – Jean Baudrillard , French cultural theorist , sociologist , philosopher , political commentator and photographer (d. 2007 )
8 August – Josef Mikl , Austrian abstract painter (d. 2008 )
4 September – Anne Dunn , painter
21 September – Edgar Valter , Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (d. 2006 )
4 November — Jane Davis Doggett , graphic designer (d. 2023 )
Undated
Deaths
January 6 - Louisine Havemeyer , American art collector and philanthropist (b 1855 )
January 12 – Arthur Diehl , English landscape painter (b. 1870 )
January 13 – Emil Fuchs , Austrian American sculptor and painter (b. 1866 )
January 18 – Maurice Bouchor , French poet and sculptor (b. 1855 )
February 14 – Sydney Carline , English painter, war artist (b. 1888 )
February 22 – Louise Upton Brumback , American landscape painter (b. 1867 )
March 1
March 5 – Francesco Paolo Michetti , Italian painter (b. 1851 )
April 22 – Henry Lerolle , painter and arts patron (b. 1848 )
May 5 – Charles Grafly , sculptor (b. 1862 )
May 9 – Kate Dickens Perugini , English painter (b. 1839 )
June 13 – Margaret Forrest , art collector (b. 1844 )
July 3 – Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret , painter (b. 1852)
July 12 – Robert Henri , painter, leader of the Ash Can School (b. 1865 )
July 28 – Allen Hutchinson , sculptor (b. 1855 )
August 9 – Heinrich Zille , photographer and illustrator (b. 1858 )
October 1 – Antoine Bourdelle , sculptor (b. 1861 )
October 26 – Aby Warburg , German art historian (b. 1866)
date unknown - Adelaïde Alsop Robineau , American painter and potter (b. 1865 )
See also
References
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