1925 in art

Events

• Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
• Stanley Spencer marries Hilda Carline.
• In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes from April through October; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style. Le Corbusier's Pavillon d'Esprit Nouveau is so disliked by the organizers that they erect a six-meter-high fence around it.
• First Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre, Paris.
• The Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch

Works

C.S. Jagger - Royal Artillery Memorial

Paintings

• George Adomeit - Down to the Harbor
• Pierre Bonnard - Nude at the Toilet Table
• Lovis Corinth - Ecce homo
• Otto Dix - Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
• Arthur Dove - The Critic
• Lyonel Feininger - Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
• Rudolf Frentz - Horsewoman
• George Grosz - Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse
• Edward Hopper - House by the Railroad
• Wassily Kandinsky - Yellow-Red-Blue
• Tamara de Lempicka - Autoportrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti)
• Joan Miró - Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence completed)
• Pablo Picasso - The Three Dancers
• Veno Pilon - Russian Woman
• Alexej von Jawlensky - Abstract Head: Desire

Sculptures

• Wäinö Aaltonen - Statue of Paavo Nurmi
• Josep Clarà - Serenity
• Jacob Epstein - Rima (memorial to W. H. Hudson in Hyde Park, London)
• Daniel Chester French - Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
• Alberto Giacometti - Torso
• Charles Sargeant Jagger - Royal Artillery Memorial
• Paul Manship - The Flight of Europa
• Frederick Roth - Statue of Balto, Central Park
• Francis Derwent Wood - Machine Gun Corps Memorial

Births

• 1 January - Mario Merz, Italian artist (d.2003).
• 17 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d.1996).
• 12 February - Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d.1992).
• 4 April - Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d.2007).
• 29 April - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director (d.2007).
• 16 May - Hannes Hegen, cartoonist and illustrator.
• 22 May - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d.1991).
• 23 July - Burt Glinn, American photographer (d.2008).
• 26 August - Robert Colescott, American artist (d.2009).
• 22 October - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d.2008).
• 28 October - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d.2006).
• 30 November - Lenore Jaffee, painter.
• 18 December - John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d.2007).
• date unknown
  • James Bingham, Northern Irish painter.

Deaths

• January 8 - George Bellows (b. 1882)
• March 1 - Ramon Pichot, mentor of Salvador Dalí
• May 2 - Jan Stursa, sculptor (b. 1880)
• July 17 - Lovis Corinth, painter and printmaker (b. 1858)
• September 25 - Charles Cottet, post-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
• November 27 - Roger de la Fresnaye, painter (b. 1885)
• December 18 - Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1850)
• December 29 - Félix Vallotton, painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
• John Singer Sargent, painter (b. 1856)
• date unknown - Karl Brendel, schizophrenic outsider artist (b. 1871)

See also

• 1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union