Events from the year 1925 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Paintings
Sculptures
Births
- 1 January
- Mario Merz, Italian artist (d. 2003).
- Kossa Bokchan, Serbian painter (d. 2009).
- 17 January â Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996).
- 23 January â James Bingham, Northern Irish painter (d. 2009).
- 12 February â Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1992).
- 22 February â Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000).
- 10 March â Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (d. 1990).
- 13 March â Jane Bown, English portrait photographer (d. 2014).
- 25 March - José Manuel Capuletti (d. 1978).
- 29 March â Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter (d. 2014).
- 1 April â Bryan Robertson, English curator (d. 2002).
- 4 April â Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d. 2007).
- 29 April â Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (d. 2007).
- 16 May â Hannes Hegen, German cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2014).
- 22 May â Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991).
- 21 June â Stanley Moss, American poet, publisher and art dealer (d. 2024).
- 23 July â Burt Glinn, American photographer (d. 2008).
- 26 August â Robert Colescott, American artist (d. 2009).
- 22 October â Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d. 2008).
- 28 October â Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006).
- 15 November â André Lufwa, Congolese sculptor (Batteur de tam-tam) (d. 2020).
- 11 December â Patrick Reyntiens, English stained glass artist (d. 2021).
- 18 December â John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d. 2007).
- date unknown
- Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, Nigerian Yoruba sculptor (d. 2009).
- Panayiotis Tetsis, Greek painter.
Deaths
- January 8 â George Bellows, American realist painter (b. 1882)
- March 1 â Ramon Pichot, Catalan impressionist painter, mentor of Salvador Dalà(b. 1871)
- March 8 â Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
- April 14 â John Singer Sargent, expatriate American portrait painter (b. 1856)
- April 25
- Emily Mary Osborn, English painter (b. 1828)
- John Quinton Pringle, Scottish painter (b. 1864)
- May 2 â Jan Ã
 tursa, Czech sculptor (b. 1880)
- July 17 â Lovis Corinth, German painter and printmaker (b. 1858)
- July 28 â Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (b. 1844)
- August 15 â George Barbu ÃÂtirbei, Romanian patron of the arts (b. 1828)
- August 21 â Karl Brendel, German schizophrenic outsider artist (b. 1871)
- September 17 â Carl Eytel, German American artist (b. 1862)
- September 25 â Charles Cottet, French post-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
- October 21 â Heinrich von Angeli, Austrian society portrait painter (b. 1840)
- November 27 â Roger de La Fresnaye, French cubist painter (b. 1885)
- c. November â Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (b. 1834)
- December 18 â Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English figure sculptor (b. 1850)
- December 29 â Félix Vallotton, Swiss French painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
- date unknown â Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (b. 1847).
See also
References