1945 in art
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Events
- May - Retreating SS forces destroy the Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings.[1][2]
- July–December - Han van Meegeren paints his last forgery of a Dutch Golden Age painting, Jesus among the Doctors, before witnesses in Amsterdam to refute charges of having sold genuine Dutch cultural property to Nazis.[3]
- October 25 - Jackson Pollock marries Lee Krasner.
- Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.
Awards
- Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED
Exhibitions
Works
See also: Category:1945 sculptures
- Marc Chagall - Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio
- Salvador Dalí
- Russell Drysdale - The Drover's Wife
- Jackson Pollock - Troubled Queen (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Joe Rosenthal - Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (photograph)
- David Alfaro Siqueiros - El Coronelazo
- Elizabeth Shoumatoff - Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Philip Zec - Here you are. Don't lose it again! (political cartoon)[4]
Births
- January 25 - Barbara Kruger, photographer, graphic artist and sculptor
- January 31 - Joseph Kosuth, conceptual artist
- March 8 - Anselm Kiefer, sculptor.
- June 14 - Jörg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.2007)
- June 30 - Sean Scully, painter
- July 16 - Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist
- July 28 - Jim Davis, cartoonist, creator of "Garfield"
- August 4 - Paul McCarthy, sculptor, installation artist and video artist
- August 18 - Brummbaer, digital artist
- August 19 - Peter Reginato, sculptor
- September 27 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and Conceptual artist turned painter (d.2003)
- date unknown
- Suzanne Lacy, installations, video and performance artist.
- Catherine Leroy, French photographer (d.2006).
- Susan Rothenberg, painter
- Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist and sculptor.
- Robert Bishop, bondage artist (d.1991)
Deaths
- January 7 - Alexander Stirling Calder, sculptor (b. 1870)
- March 31 - Hando Ruus, Estonian painter (b. 1917)
- April - Josef Čapek, painter (b. 1887)
- April 22 - Käthe Kollwitz, painter, lithographer and sculptor (b. 1867)
- May 5 - René Lalique, French glass designer (b. 1860)
- June 15 - Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1897)
- September 16 - David Young Cameron, Scottish painter and etcher (b. 1865)
- October 24 - Franklin Carmichael, painter (b. 1890)
- October 31 - Ignacio Zuloaga, painter (b. 1870)
- date unknown
- Thomas Hennell, painter (b. 1903)
- Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (b. 1891)
See also
References
- ^ Jones, Jonathan (2009-05-06). "Klimt's Dazzling demons". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/may/07/art. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ^ SheilaTGTG55 (2011-10-13). "The Fire At Schloss Immendorf". Open Salon. http://open.salon.com/blog/sheilatgtg55/2011/10/11/the_fire_at_schloss_immendorf. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ^ Kreuger, Frederik H. (2010). Van Meegeren Revisited & List of Works. Amsterdam: Erasmus Books. pp. 152–155. ISBN 978-90-5959-060-1.
- ^ Connor, Robert (1969). Cassandra: Reflections in a Mirror. London: Cassell. ISBN 0304933414.
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