Events from the year 1913 in art.
Events
- February 17 â The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
- March 10 â French sculptor Camille Claudel is committed by her family to a psychiatric hospital where she will remain until her death in 1943.
- April â Marcel Duchamp withdraws from painting and begins working as a library assistant in the Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris to be able to earn a living wage while concentrating on scholarship and working on his The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
- May â The Paul ÃÂmile Chabas painting September Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of a Chicago art gallery.
- May 27 â Die Brücke dissolved.
- May 29 â The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-ÃÂlysées in Paris, its modernism provoking one of the most famous classical music riots in history. The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel.
- August–September â Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spends the summer painting on the island of Fehmarn; returning to Berlin he begins his series of street scenes from around the Potsdamer Platz.
- September 19 â First German Autumn Salon opens in Berlin, featuring 366 paintings by 90 artists from 12 countries, notably Franz Marc; Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti deliver accompanying lectures.
- Autumn â The Neue Galerie in Berlin reopens with displays of the work of Picasso and others associated with French Modernism.
- October â August Macke paints at Hilterfingen.
- October 18 â Monument to the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, designed by Bruno Schmitz incorporating sculptures by Christian Behrens and Franz Metzner, is inaugurated.
- December 12 â Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, stolen from the Louvre in 1911, is located in Florence when Vincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30.
- Generación del 13 established in Chile.
- The London Group is formed by merger of the Camden Town Group and the Vorticists; it will hold its first exhibition in March 1914.
- Target, the first exhibition of Rayonism.
- Maurice Utrillo has his first solo exhibition, at the Galerie Blot in Paris, but attracts little notice at this time.
- Omega Workshops established in London by Roger Fry and other members of the Bloomsbury Group to produce artist-designed furniture and textiles. Wyndham Lewis and others secede in October.
- First observation of a chimpanzee drawing.
- English connoisseur Hugh Blaker discovers and acquires the "Isleworth Mona Lisa".
- Guillaume Apollinaire's The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques) is published in Paris.
- The Russian Futurist opera Victory Over the Sun by Mikhail Matyushin and Aleksei Kruchyonykh with stage design by Kazimir Malevich premieres in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is for this opus that Malevich creates his first Black Square as part of his stage design. Some consider this the beginning of Malevich's Suprematist period
Works
Graphic works
Sculptures
Births
- January 29 â Reuben Kadish, American artist and educator (died 1992)
- January 30 â Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Indian painter (died 1941)
- February 15 â William Scott, Ulster Scots painter (died 1989)
- March 8 â Peter Wilson, English art auctioneer (died 1984)
- March 12 â Max Leognany, French artist (died 1994)
- March 19 â Mary Henry, American painter (died 2009)
- March 23 â Abidin Dino, Turkish artist (died 1993)
- March 29 â Hyman Bloom, Latvian American painter (died 2009)
- April 21 â Norman Parkinson, English fashion photographer (died 1990)
- May 6 â Marianne Appel, American mural painter and puppet designer (died 1988)
- May 7 - Mary Spencer Watson, English sculptor (died 2006)
- May 27 â Wols, born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, German-born painter and draughtsman (died 1951)
- July 12 â Roger Testu, French cartoonist (died 2008)
- July 22 â Robert C. Turner, American potter (died 2005)
- July 27 â Philip Guston, Canadian-born American Abstract Expressionist painter and printmaker (died 1980)
- August 10 â Lajos Tscheligi, Hungarian painter (died 2003)
- September 1 â Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (died 1979)
- September 25 â Tony O'Malley, Irish painter (died 2003)
- September 28 â Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss artist and illustrator (died 2007)
- October 22 â Robert Capa, born Endre Friedmann, Hungarian-born war photographer (died 1954)
- November 21 â Tomie Ohtake, Japanese-Brazilian artist (died 2015)
- December 13 â Vladimir Tretchikoff, Russian artist (died 2006)
- December 24 â Ad Reinhardt, American painter and writer (died 1967)
- Full date unknown
- Russell Brockbank, Canadian-born cartoonist (died 1979)
- Mercedes Matter, born Mercedes Carles, American painter (died 2001)
Deaths
- January 6 â Gyula Juhász, Hungarian sculptor and engraver (born 1876)
- March 8 â Louis Saint-Gaudens, American sculptor (born 1854)
- March 13 â Félix Resurrección Hidalgo, Filipino painter (born 1855)
- April 20 â Vilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (born 1836)
- May 10 â Andreas Aubert, Norwegian art historian (born 1851)
- June 23 - Marc-Louis Solon, French-born ceramic artist (born 1835)
- July 10 â MikoláÃ
¡ AleÃ
¡, Czech painter (born 1852)
- August 2 - George Hitchcock, American painter (born 1850)
- August 7 â Fernand Pelez, French painter (born 1843)
- September 28 â Sir Alfred East, English painter (born 1844)
- October 5 â Hans von Bartels, German painter (born 1856)
- Full date unknown â Caroline Shawk Brooks, American sculptor (born 1840)
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