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Overview of the events of 1944 in art
Overview of the events of 1944 in art
Events from the year 1944 in art.
Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
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9 January –
Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d.
2002).
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10 January –
Jeff Jones, American illustrator.
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12 February -
Jane Livingston, American curator.
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4 March –
Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
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29 March –
Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d.
2018).
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4 April –
Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor (d.
2023).
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8 May –
David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d.
2003).
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24 July –
Maya Wildevuur, Dutch painter (d.
2023).
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4 August –
Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media.
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15 August –
Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d.
2007).
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20 August –
Brian Barnes, English mural artist.
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27 August –
Catherine Leroy,
French-born photographer (d.
2006).
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1 September –
Louis Delsarte, American painter (d.
2020).
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4 November
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23 November –
Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d.
2019).
Full date unknown
Deaths
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January 23 –
Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b.
1863)
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February 1 –
Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b.
1872)
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February 26 –
Lucienne Heuvelmans, French sculptor (b.
1885?)
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April 25 –
George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b.
1880)
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July 18 –
Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b.
1905)
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August 2 –
Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (in
Auschwitz concentration camp) (b.
1904)
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August 18 –
Hans Mertens, German painter (b.
1906)
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September 3 –
William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait and genre painter (b.
1859)
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September 27
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October 14 –
Marko Murat, Serbian painter (b.
1864)
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October 21 –
Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b.
1862)
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November 22 – Sir
George Clausen, English artist (b.
1852)
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December 10 –
Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (b.
1871)
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December 13 –
Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b.
1866)
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December 24 –
Alfred Drury, English sculptor (b.
1856)
- Undated –
Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (b.
1857)
See also
References