1933 in art

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Events

• Closure of the Bauhaus.
• Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice.
• The mural, Man at the Crossroads, by Diego Rivera, is removed from the Rockefeller Center in New York because it contains a portrait of Lenin.
• Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts.
• Ben Nicholson marries Barbara Hepworth.
• Paul Nash and other young British artists form the group Unit One to promote modernism in Britain.
• Kenneth Clark appointed Director of the National Gallery, London, at age 30.

Works

Jacob Epstein - Bust of Albert Einstein

• Tarsila do Amaral - Operarios
• Jacob Epstein
  • Man of Aran (portrait bust of 'Tiger' King)
  • Primeval Gods / Sun God (double-sided Hoptonwood stone carving)
  • Portrait busts of Lord Beaverbrook, Prof. Albert Einstein, Robert Flaherty, John Gielgud and Dr Chaim Weizmann
• C. Paul Jennewein
  • Spirit of Justice (sculpture; Department of Justice Building, Washington, D.C.)
  • Western Civilization (pediment sculpture; Philadelphia Museum of Art)
• René Magritte - The Human Condition (first version)
• Pablo Picasso - Minotaur Kneeling over Sleeping Girl (etching)
• John Skeaping - Horse (sculpture in mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo; now in Tate Gallery)

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Charles Wheeler - Ambrose Pratt

Births

January to June

• February 8 - Richard Allen (abstract artist) British minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999)
• 18 February - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician.
• 4 March - John W. Mills, English sculptor.
• 1 April - Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (d.1996).
• 11 June - Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (d.2005).
• 12 June - Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d.2004).

July to December

• 8 July - Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (d.2004).
• 18 July - Cécile Guillame, first woman who engraved French postal stamps (d.2004).
• 18 August - Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (d.2008).
• 29 August - Sorel Etrog, sculptor.
• November 8 - Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (d.2004).
• November 18
  • Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (d. 2008)
  • Charlotte Moorman, Fluxus performance artist (d. 1991)
• November 29 - James Rosenquist, painter and muralist
• November 30 - Sam Gilliam, painter
• December 14 - Bapu, cartoonist and painter

Full date of birth unknown

• Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (d.2000).
• John Stuart Ingle, watercolorist.
• Alison Knowles, Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker
• Michael Noakes, portrait painter
• Mark di Suvero, sculptor.

Deaths

• January 10 - Margaret MacDonald, designer (b. 1865)
• February 28 - Lilla Cabot Perry, Impressionist painter (b. 1848)
• March 10 - Émile André, architect and designer (b. 1871)
• April 16 - Harold Peto, architect and garden designer (b. 1854)
• May 6 - François Pompon, sculptor (b. 1856)
• May 25 - James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855)
• June 14 - Hans Prinzhorn, art historian
• August 5 - Charles Harold Davis, painter (b. 1856)
• August 8 - Adolf Loos, Modernist architect
• October 2 - Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (b. 1846)
• October 24 - Annie Swynnerton, English painter (b. 1844)
• October 26 - José Malhoa, painter
• October 29 - George Benjamin Luks, portrait painter
• November 14 - Thomas Hayton Mawson, garden designer
• November 15 - Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, furniture designer (b. 1879)
• November 19 - Louise Jopling, English painter (b. 1843)
• date unknown
  • Susan Dacre, English painter (b. 1844)
  • W. G. R. Sprague, theatre designer (b. 1863)

See also

• 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union