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Overview of the events of 1946 in art
Overview of the events of 1946 in art
Events from the year 1946 in art.
Events
- March – Art collector
Peggy Guggenheim publishes the first edition of her autobiographical Out of This Century in the United States.
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April 2 –
Jackson Pollock's third solo exhibition opens in the Daylight Gallery of Peggy Guggenheim's
The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan.
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May 22 – The
Equestrian statue of Christian V recast in
bronze by
Einar Utzon-Frank (
1688 original by
Abraham-César Lamoureux) is unveiled on
Kongens Nytorv,
Copenhagen.
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October 11 –
National Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina established in
Sarajevo.
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October 24 – In a double ceremony,
Max Ernst (having been divorced from Peggy Guggenheim) marries
Dorothea Tanning and
Man Ray marries Juliet P. Browner in
Beverly Hills, California.
- The
Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by
Ernst Fuchs,
Rudolf Hausner, and others.
- The
Borough Group of artists is founded in London by
Cliff Holden.
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Jean Dubuffet exhibits the series of works with paint mixed with sand and gravel, Hautes Pâtes, at the Galérie René Drouin.
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Jacob Lawrence begins painting his War Series.
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Sidney Nolan begins his first series of paintings of
Ned Kelly.
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David Olère begins to produce artworks based on his experiences as
Jewish
Sonderkommando inmate 106144 of
Auschwitz concentration camp during
World War II.
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Musée de la Chartreuse, Molsheim, France, established (at this time under the name "Musée municipal")
Awards
Works
Exhibitions
Births
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January 8 –
Betty Beaumont, Canadian American site-specific artist, all media
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January 10 –
Kalidas Karmakar, Bangladeshi artist
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January 18 –
Kirk Varnedoe,
American
art historian, writer and curator (d.
2003)
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January 26 –
Timothy Clifford,
English art historian and curator
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February 9 –
Peter Linde, Swedish sculptor
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April 11 –
Chris Burden, American performance and installation artist and sculptor (d.
2015)
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April 27 –
Nicholas Serota, English curator
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May 30 –
Jan de Bie, painter and photographer (d.
2021)
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June 29 –
Egon von Fürstenberg,
Swiss
fashion designer (d.
2004)
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July 6 –
Jamie Wyeth, American realist
painter
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July 11 –
Chris Killip, Manx-born documentary photographer (d.
2020)
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July 25 –
Nicole Farhi, French sculptor and
fashion designer
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September 27 –
T. C. Cannon, Native American painter (d.
1978)
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November 4 –
Robert Mapplethorpe, American
photographer (d.
1989)
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November 5 –
Herman Brood,
Dutch
musician, painter and
media personality (d.
2001)
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November 20 –
Alice Aycock, American sculptor and installation artist
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December 2 –
Gianni Versace,
Italian fashion designer (k.
1997)
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December 8 –
Jacques Bourboulon, French nude and fashion photographer
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December 12 –
Don Gummer, American sculptor
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December 25 –
Christopher Frayling, English cultural historian
Deaths
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January 2 –
O'Galop (Marius Rossillon), French cartoonist (b.
1867)
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January 23 –
Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish painter (b.
1862)
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February 17
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July 11 –
Paul Nash, English painter (b. 1889)
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July 13 –
Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b.
1864)
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July 17 –
Florence Fuller, Australian painter (b. 1867)
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October 7 -
C. R. W. Nevinson, English war artist (b. 1889)
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October 28 –
Manuel Ortiz de Zárate, Chilean painter (b.
1887)
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October 30 –
Charles Despiau, French sculptor (b.
1874)
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November 23
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November 24 –
László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter and photographer (b.
1895)
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December 28 –
Elie Nadelman, Polish-born American sculptor (b.
1882)
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December 29 –
Arnold Friedman, American Modernist painter (b. 1874)
References