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1916 in art
Summary
Events from the year
1916 in art
.
List of years in art
(
table
)
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+...
Events
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February 5
–
Cabaret Voltaire
is opened by German poet
Hugo Ball
and his future wife
Emmy Hennings
in the back room of Ephraim Jan's
Holländische Meierei
in
Zürich
; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of
Dada
. Those who gather here include
Marcel Janco
,
Richard Huelsenbeck
,
Tristan Tzara
,
Sophie Taeuber-Arp
and
Jean Arp
.
February 9
: 6.00 p.m. –
Tristan Tzara
"founds"
Dada
(according to
Hans Arp
).
March 1
–
Liljevalchs konsthall
inaugurated in
Stockholm
.
May 20
–
Boy with Baby Carriage
is
Norman Rockwell
's first cover for
The Saturday Evening Post
.
May –
Muirhead Bone
recruited as a
war artist
by the British
War Propaganda Bureau
. At the end of the year, his album of drawings
The Western Front
begins publication.
June 16
–
Cleveland Museum of Art
opens in the United States.
July 14
– Hugo Ball recites the Dada manifesto in Zürich.
Summer –
Paul Strand
experiments with 'straight' abstract photography at
Twin Lakes (Connecticut)
.
August 31
–
Kestnergesellschaft
founded in
Hanover
, Germany.
September 19
–
Edvard Munch
's paintings for the
Aula
(festival hall) of
Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, Christiania
, are inaugurated.
September 26
–
C. R. W. Nevinson
's first major single-artist exhibition opens in
London
.
November –
John Nash
arrives with the
Artists Rifles
in France.
Vanessa Bell
's first single-artist exhibition is staged at
Omega Workshops
in London.
Provincial Fine Arts Museum
completed in
Córdoba, Argentina
.
Gilbert Cannan
publishes his novel
Mendel: a story of youth
, based on the lives of those in his artistic circle of friends with a young
Mark Gertler
as the central figure, together with
Dora Carrington
,
C. R. W. Nevinson
and
John Currie
.
Ezra Pound
publishes
Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir
.
Works
edit
Claude Monet
,
Nympheas
,
Musée Marmottan Monet
, 1916
Paul Wayland Bartlett
–
Apotheosis of Democracy
(
pediment
sculpture on
United States Capitol
)
Vanessa Bell
–
Nude with Poppies
Umberto Boccioni
–
Portrait of Ferruccio Busoni
Constantin Brâncuși
–
Princess X
(sculpture)
Frank Brangwyn
–
Mosaic
for
apse
of
St Aidan's Church, Leeds
, England
[1]
[2]
George Clausen
–
Youth Mourning
Giorgio de Chirico
The Disquieting Muses
The Melancholy of Departure
Metaphysical Interior with Biscuits
Marcel Duchamp
–
Apolinère Enameled
(approximate date)
Jacob Epstein
–
The Tin Hat
(bronze head)
Abel Faivre
–
On les aura!
(recruiting poster)
Paul Gustav Fischer
–
Sunbathing in the Dunes
Mark Gertler
Gilbert Cannan at his Mill
Merry-Go-Round
J. W. Godward
Ancient Pastimes
By The Blue Ionian Sea
Lesbia With Her Sparrow
George Grosz
–
Suicide
Richard Jack
–
The Return to the Front: Victoria Railway Station
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
–
Königstein Station
Laura Knight
–
Spring
(original version)
Boris Kustodiev
Fontanka
Shrovetide
(Масленица)
Jean Metzinger
, 1916,
Femme au miroir (Lady at her Dressing Table)
, oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.1 cm, private collection
Alfred Laliberté
–
Les petits Baigneurs
(bronze,
Montreal
)
Fernand Léger
–
Soldier with a Pipe
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
–
The Fallen
(sculpture)
Kazimir Malevich
–
Suprematist Composition
Edward Middleton Manigault
Still Life with Lemons
Vorticist Landscape (War Impressions)
(approximate date)
Henri Matisse
–
The Piano Lesson
Jean Metzinger
Femme au miroir (Femme à sa toilette, Lady at her Dressing Table)
Fruit and a Jug on a Table
Amedeo Modigliani
portrait of
Beatrice Hastings
Léon Indenbaum
portrait of
Max Jacob
Jacques and Berthe Lipchitz
two portraits of
Chaïm Soutine
Reclining Nude
Claude Monet
– paintings in
Water Lilies
series
Nympheas
(
Musée Marmottan Monet
)
Water Lilies
(
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
)
C. R. W. Nevinson
Archies
The Doctor
Dog-Tired
French Troops Resting
Maxfield Parrish
and
Louis Comfort Tiffany
-
Dream Garden
(glass mosaic) commissioned for and installed in the lobby of the
Curtis Center
in
Philadelphia
,
Pennsylvania
[3]
Glyn Philpot
Man in a Flying Jacket
The Skyscraper
Morton Livingston Schamberg
–
Untitled (Mechanical Abstraction)
Matthew Smith
–
Fitzroy Street Nude No. 1
Paul Strand
(photographs)
Abstraction, Porch Shadows, Twin Lakes, Connecticut
White Fence
Births
edit
January 23
–
David Douglas Duncan
,
American
war photographer (died
2018
)
April 11
–
Irv Novick
, American
comic book
artist (died
2004
)
April 20
–
Gerald Dillon
,
Irish
painter (died
1971
)
April 26
–
Eyvind Earle
, American illustrator and Disney artist (died
2000
)
June 24
–
Saloua Raouda Choucair
,
Lebanese
painter and sculptor (died
2017
)
July 25
–
Fred Lasswell
, American cartoonist (died
2001
)
September 29
–
Carl Giles
,
English
cartoonist (died
1995
)
October 18
– Jean-Yves Couliou,
French
painter (died
1995
)
November 3
–
Harry Lampert
, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (died
2004
)
November 10
–
Louis le Brocquy
, Irish painter (died
2012
)
November 25
–
Villu Toots
, Estonian calligrapher, book designer, educator, paleograph and author (died
1993
)
December 7
–
John G. Morris
, American picture editor (died
2017
)
Deaths
edit
January 17
–
Marie Bracquemond
, French Impressionist painter (born
1840
)
February 13
–
Vilhelm Hammershøi
, Danish painter (born
1864
)
March 4
–
Franz Marc
, German Expressionist painter (born
1880
) (killed in action during
Battle of Verdun
)
June 25
–
Thomas Eakins
, American painter, sculptor and teacher (born
1844
)
June 29
–
Georges Lacombe
, French artist (born
1868
)
July 6
–
Odilon Redon
, French Symbolist painter and graphic artist (born
1840
)
July 29
–
Eleanor Vere Boyle
, English watercolorist (born
1825
)
August 17
–
Umberto Boccioni
, Italian Futurist painter and sculptor (born
1882
) (died following a fall during cavalry training)
August 23
–
Jean-Paul Aubé
, French sculptor (born
1837
)
August 28
–
Henri Harpignies
, French landscape painter of the
Barbizon school
(born
1819
)
October 25
–
William Merritt Chase
, American Impressionist painter (born
1849
)
December 13
–
Antonin Mercié
, French sculptor and painter (born
1845
)
date unknown
Wu Shixian
,
Chinese
landscape painter
during the
Qing dynasty
(born
unknown
)
Branko Radulović,
Serbian
painter (born
1885
).
References
edit
^
Pepper, B. (1998). "The Mosaic of St Aidan's". In Tate, L. S. (ed.).
Aspects of Leeds
. pp. 119–124.
ISBN
1-871647-38-X
.
^
"St Aidan's Church, Leeds"
. Retrieved
2012-06-22
.
^
"Dream Garden".