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Overview of the events of 1916 in art
Events from the year 1916 in art.
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.
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February 9 : 6.00 p.m. –
Tristan Tzara "founds"
Dada (according to
Hans Arp).
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March 1 –
Liljevalchs konsthall inaugurated in
Stockholm.
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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.
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June 16 –
Cleveland Museum of Art opens in the United States.
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July 14 – Hugo Ball recites the
Dada manifesto in Zürich.
- Summer –
Paul Strand experiments with 'straight' abstract photography at
Twin Lakes (Connecticut).
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August 31 –
Kestnergesellschaft founded in
Hanover, Germany.
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September 19 –
Edvard Munch's paintings for the Aula (festival hall) of
Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, Christiania, are inaugurated.
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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.
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Vanessa Bell's first single-artist exhibition is staged at
Omega Workshops in London.
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Provincial Fine Arts Museum completed in
Córdoba, Argentina.
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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.
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Ezra Pound publishes Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir.
Works
Claude Monet, Nympheas,
Musée Marmottan Monet, 1916
Jean Metzinger, 1916,
Femme au miroir (Lady at her Dressing Table), oil on canvas, 92.4 x 65.1 cm, private collection
Births
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January 23 –
David Douglas Duncan,
American war photographer (died
2018)
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April 11 –
Irv Novick, American
comic book artist (died
2004)
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April 20 –
Gerald Dillon,
Irish painter (died
1971)
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April 26 –
Eyvind Earle, American illustrator and Disney artist (died
2000)
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June 24 –
Saloua Raouda Choucair,
Lebanese painter and sculptor (died
2017)
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July 25 –
Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (died
2001)
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September 29 –
Carl Giles,
English cartoonist (died
1995)
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October 18 –
Jean-Yves Couliou,
French painter (died
1995)
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November 3 –
Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (died
2004)
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November 10 –
Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (died
2012)
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November 25 –
Villu Toots, Estonian calligrapher, book designer, educator, paleograph and author (died
1993)
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December 7 –
John G. Morris, American picture editor (died
2017)
Deaths
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January 17 –
Marie Bracquemond, French Impressionist painter (born
1840)
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February 13 –
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (born
1864)
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March 4 –
Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter (born
1880) (killed in action during
Battle of Verdun)
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June 25 –
Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor and teacher (born
1844)
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June 29 –
Georges Lacombe, French artist (born
1868)
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July 6 –
Odilon Redon, French Symbolist painter and graphic artist (born
1840)
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July 29 –
Eleanor Vere Boyle, English watercolorist (born
1825)
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August 17 –
Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist painter and sculptor (born
1882) (died following a fall during cavalry training)
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August 23 –
Jean-Paul Aubé, French sculptor (born
1837)
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August 28 –
Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter of the
Barbizon school (born
1819)
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October 25 –
William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist painter (born
1849)
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December 13 –
Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter (born
1845)
- date unknown
References