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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.
October 27 – Socialite
Bryan Guinness and his new wife
Diana present an exhibition at their London home of paintings by supposed German-born artist Bruno Hat. They are in fact by
Brian Howard and Hat is portrayed by
Tom Mitford .
[5]
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.
[6]
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 .
[7]
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.
[8]
Cercle et Carré group of
abstract artists founded in Paris by
Joaquín Torres García and
Michel Seuphor .
[9]
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