Events from the year 1912 in art.
Events
- January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) â Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.
- April â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 â 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 FrantiÃ
¡ek Kupka.
- Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".
Exhibitions
Works
- Giacomo Balla
- Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
- Girl Running on a Balcony
- The Hand of the Violinist
- Vanessa Bell âÂÂ
- George Bellows â Men of the Docks
- David Bomberg â '
- Pierre Bonnard â '
- Georges Braque
- Fruit Dish and Glass
- The Guitar
- Richard E. Brooks â Statue of John McGraw (bronze sculpture, Seattle)
- Paul ÃÂmile Chabas â September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
- Jerome Connor â Bishop John Carroll (bronze sculpture, Washington, D.C.)
- John Currie â '
- Roger de La Fresnaye â Mon Ami, Jean Cocteau
- Robert Delaunay â Windows (series)
- Marcel Duchamp â Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
- Rogelio de Egusquiza â Tristan and Isolde (Life)
- Lydia Field Emmet â '
- Jacob Epstein â Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris)
- E. Phillips Fox â Nasturtiums
- Roger Fry
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- Laura Gilpin â 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 â (Glass and Bottles)
- Vilhelm Hammershøi â Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
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- Gustav Klimt â Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
- FrantiÃ
¡ek Kupka â The Cathedral (Katedrála)
- Boris Kustodiev
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- Fernand Léger
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- Wyndham Lewis â '
- Kazimir Malevich â The Knifegrinder
- J. B. Manson â 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 â Tête (sculpture)
- Piet Mondrian â Gray Tree
- Mikhail Nesterov â '
- Emil Nolde
- The Life of Christ (polyptych)
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- William Orpen â '
- 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 â Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain (New York City)
- J. Massey Rhind â George Washington (bronze equestrian sculpture, Newark)
- Franz Roubaud â '
- Egon Schiele
- Portrait of Wally
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- Kathleen Scott â ' (bronze sculpture, Dover)
- T. F. Simon â '
- Max Slevogt â ' ("The Red d'Andrade")
- Stanley Spencer â The Nativity
- James Wehn â Statue of Chief Seattle (copper sculpture, Seattle)
- Christopher Whall and Mabel Esplin â , St John the Divine, Richmond, London
- William Barnes Wollen â The Battle of Albuera
Births
January to June
- January 7 â Charles Addams, American cartoonist (d.1988)
- January 28 â Jackson Pollock, American painter (d.1956)
- January 29 â Constantin Kluge, Russian and French painter (d.2003)
- February 7 â Russell Drysdale, Australian artist (d.1981)
- March 4 â Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d.1976)
- March 22 â Agnes Martin, Canadian-US painter (d.2004)
- April 14 â Robert Doisneau, French photographer (d.1994)
- April 21 â Eve Arnold, née Cohen, American photographer (d.2012)
- May 8 â John Deakin, English photographer (d.1972)
- June 4 â Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993)
- June 8 â Harry Holtzman, American artist (died 1987)
- June 11 â William Baziotes, American painter (d.1963)
July to December
- July 10 â Isabel Nicholas, English painter and model (d.1992)
- August 1 â Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (d.1983)
- August 23 â Keith Vaughan, English painter (d.1977)
- August 29 â Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-born documentary photographer and cinematographer (d.2016)
- September 4
- Syd Hoff, US children's book author and cartoonist (d.2004)
- Alexander Liberman, Russian-born painter and sculptor (d.1999)
- September 5
- Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer (d.2001)
- Frank Thomas, US animator (d.2004)
- September 23 â Tony Smith, US sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980)
- October 31 â Ollie Johnston, US animator (d.2008)
- November 3 â Ida Kohlmeyer, US painter and sculptor (d.1997)
- November 28 â Morris Louis, US painter (d.1962)
- December 27 â Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005)
Deaths
- January 18 â Hermann Kern, Austrian painter (born 1838)
- February 3 â Joan Brull, Catalan Symbolist painter (born 1863)
- February 14 â Mathurin Moreau, French sculptor (born 1822)
- March 16 â Elizabeth Forbes, Canadian painter of the Newlyn School (born 1859; cancer)
- March 29 â John Gerrard Keulemans, Dutch bird illustrator (born 1842)
- March 31 â Robert Loftin Newman, American painter and stained-glass designer (born 1827)
- April 15 â Francis Davis Millet, American painter, sculptor and writer (born 1846) (died on board the Titanic)
- May 2 â Homer Davenport, American cartoonist (born 1867)
- May 20 â Louis Hasselriis, Danish sculptor known for public monuments (born 1844)
- June 25 â Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter (born 1836)
- June 30 â John Ford Paterson, ScottishâÂÂAustralian artist, president of the Victorian Artists Society (born 1851)
- July 16 â Thomas Fitzpatrick, Irish cartoonist (born 1860)
- August 20 â Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator and author (born 1838)
- September 2 â Henry Allan, Irish painter (born 1865)
- September 15 â John Leighton, English book illustrator (born 1822)
- October 11 â Nils Hansteen, Norwegian painter (born 1855)
- November 1 â John Emms, English painter (born 1844)
- November 22 â Otto Lessing, German historicist sculptor (born 1846)
- December 1 â John Moyr Smith, Scottish-born ceramic artist (born 1839)
- December 8 â Tony Robert-Fleury, French painter (born 1865)
- December 23 â ÃÂdouard Detaille, French painter
- date unknown
- Tadeusz Ã
»ukotyÃ
Âski, Polish count, professor, and painter (born 1855)
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