1912 in art

Events from the year 1912 in art.

Events

• January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.
• April – Egon Schiele is arrested in Neulengbach for seducing and abducting a minor; these charges are dropped but he is imprisoned for 21 days for exhibiting erotic drawings in a place accessible to children (his studio). One of the drawings in burned in court. He paints while imprisoned.
• May – The Blue Rider Almanac published in Munich, containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and Vasilly Kandinsky's experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound.
• June 26 – Austrian writer Frida Strindberg opens The Cave of the Golden Calf, a London nightclub decorated by Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Charles Ginner and Jacob Epstein with its motif by Eric Gill; it becomes a haunt of Futurists.
• July – At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, American marksman, horse breeder and artist Walter W. Winans wins a silver medal for shooting and a gold in the sculpture category of the art competitions for his bronze statuette An American Trotter.
• December 24 – William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
• In Paris, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger publish the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", followed by André Salmon's La jeune peinture française including Histoire anecdotique du cubisme.
• French poet Guillaume Apollinaire introduces the term 'Orphism', in an address at the Salon de la Section d'Or, referring initially to the 'pure painting' of FrantiÅ¡ek Kupka.
• Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".

Exhibitions

• March – Exhibition of Italian Futurism transfers from Paris to the Sackville Gallery in London, organised by Robert René Meyer-Sée.
• May 25–September 30 – Third International Art Exhibition organized by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, in Cologne (Ausstellungshalle der Stadt Cöln am Aachener Tor), featuring works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and Edvard Munch.
• Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition organized by Roger Fry in London.
• René Lalique and Maurice Marinot independently stage the first exhibitions of their glasswares.

Works

• Giacomo Balla
• Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
• Girl Running on a Balcony
• The Hand of the Violinist
• Vanessa Bell –
• George Bellows – Men of the Docks
• David Bomberg – '
• Pierre Bonnard – '
• Georges Braque
• Fruit Dish and Glass
• The Guitar
• Richard E. Brooks – Statue of John McGraw (bronze sculpture, Seattle)
• Paul Émile Chabas – September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
• Jerome Connor – Bishop John Carroll (bronze sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
• John Currie – '
• Roger de La Fresnaye – Mon Ami, Jean Cocteau
• Robert Delaunay – Windows (series)
• Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
• Rogelio de Egusquiza – Tristan and Isolde (Life)
• Lydia Field Emmet – '
• Jacob Epstein – Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
• E. Phillips Fox – Nasturtiums
• Roger Fry
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• Laura Gilpin – Basket of Peaches (color photograph)
• Albert Gleizes
• The Bathers
• Football Players
• Harvest Threshing
• Man on a Balcony
• Passy, Bridges of Paris
• J. W. Godward
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• Juan Gris – (Glass and Bottles)
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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• Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
• FrantiÅ¡ek Kupka – The Cathedral (Katedrála)
• Boris Kustodiev
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• Fernand Léger
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• Wyndham Lewis – '
• Kazimir Malevich – The Knifegrinder
• J. B. Manson – Approximate date
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• Franz Marc
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• Little Blue Horse
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• Henri Matisse
• Arab Coffeehouse
• The Conversation
• Goldfish
• The Little Mulatta
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• Paysage marocain (Acanthes)
• Seated Riffian
• View over the Bay of Tangier
• Window at Tangier
• Zorah on the Terrace
• Jean Metzinger
• The Blue Bird
• Dancer in a café
• Man with a Pipe
• Nature morte
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• Au Vélodrome
• Woman with a horse
• Woman with a Fan
• Amedeo Modigliani – Tête (sculpture)
• Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree
• Mikhail Nesterov – '
• Emil Nolde
• The Life of Christ (polyptych)
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• William Orpen – '
• Francis Picabia
• The Procession, Seville
• The Spring
• Pablo Picasso
• Bottle, Glass, Fork
• Guitar (paperboard assemblage)
• Ma Jolie
• Still Life with Chair Caning
• Violon et raisins
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• Charles A. Platt – Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain (New York City)
• J. Massey Rhind – George Washington (bronze equestrian sculpture, Newark)
• Franz Roubaud – '
• Egon Schiele
• Portrait of Wally
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• Kathleen Scott – ' (bronze sculpture, Dover)
• T. F. Simon – '
• Max Slevogt – ' ("The Red d'Andrade")
• Stanley Spencer – The Nativity
• James Wehn – Statue of Chief Seattle (copper sculpture, Seattle)
• Christopher Whall and Mabel Esplin – , St John the Divine, Richmond, London
• William Barnes Wollen – The Battle of Albuera