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Overview of the events of 1975 in art
Overview of the events of 1975 in art
Events from the year 1975 in art .
Events
10 June –
Fundació Joan Miró in
Barcelona , designed by
Josep Lluís Sert , is opened.
14 September –
Rembrandt 's painting
The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the
Rijksmuseum in
Amsterdam .
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The artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse is founded by
Heimrad Prem and others.
The
Brotherhood of Ruralists established at
Wellow, Somerset ,
England .
Mona Hatoum leaves her native
Lebanon to study at the
Byam Shaw School of Art in London.
Four
Ronnie Landfield paintings from the collection of
Philip Johnson are installed at
The Four Seasons Restaurant in
New York City , on the wall which
Mark Rothko was initially commissioned to create paintings for, and subsequently changed his mind. (In 1985 they are replaced by a mural.)
Malmö Konsthall , designed by Klas Anshelm, opens in Sweden for the display of contemporary art.
Center for Creative Photography archival facility created at the
University of Arizona ,
Tucson .
An album created in
1864 by
Julia Margaret Cameron for
John Herschel is purchased by public subscription in Britain, one of the first recognitions of the country's heritage of photography as an art form.
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
1 January –
Eiichiro Oda , Japanese
manga artist .
3 June –
Jeff Soto , American painter and illustrator.
13 June –
Johannes Grenzfurthner , Austrian
artist , writer,
curator and
director .
14 June –
Chris Onstad , American writer, cartoonist and artist.
30 July –
Graham Nicholls , British
installation artist , activist and speaker.
1 August –
Vhrsti , Czech illustrator
Full date unknown
Deaths
January to June
July to December
18 July –
Vaughn Bodē , American
underground comics ,
graphic design and
graffiti artist, of autoerotic asphyxiation (b.
1941 ).
21 July –
George Petty , American pin-up artist (b.
1894 ).
28 August –
Fritz Wotruba , Austrian sculptor (b.
1907 ).
2 October –
Seamus Murphy , Irish sculptor (b.
1907 ).
9 October -
Leon Underwood , English sculptor (b.
1890 )
25 October –
Padraig Marrinan , Irish painter (b.
1906 ).
17 November –
Michael Ayrton , English sculptor, graphic artist and writer (b.
1921 ).
20 December –
Heinz Henghes , German sculptor (b. 1906).
Date unknown
See also
References