1933 in art

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Charles Wheeler – Ambrose Pratt

Births

January to June

• February 8 – Richard Allen, British abstract minimalist Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker (d. 1999)
• February 18 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-born sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician
• February 22 – Joseph Raffael, painter (d. 2021)
• February 27
• Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (d. 2000)
• Edward Lucie-Smith, British art critic and poet
• March 4 – John Mills, English sculptor (d. 2023)
• March 10 – Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Palestinian artist (d. 2020)
• March 17 – Stass Paraskos, Greek Cypriot painter (d. 2014)
• March 29 – Roger von Gunten, Swiss-born Mexican artist and sculptor (d. 2026)
• April 1 – Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (d. 1996)
• April 9 – René Burri, Swiss photographer (d. 2014)
• April 15 – David Hamilton, English photographer (d. 2016)
• April 23 – Roger Wittevrongel, Belgian artist
• April 29 – Alison Knowles, American Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker
• June 11 – Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (d. 2005)
• June 12 – Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d. 2004)
• June 23
• Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian object artist, action painter and art theorist
• Hermenegildo Sábat, Uruguayan-Argentine caricaturist (d. 2018)

July to December

• 8 July – Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (d. 2004)
• 18 July – Cécile Guillame, first woman to engrave French postal stamps (d. 2004)
• 21 July – Laila Pullinen, Finnish sculptor (d. 2015)
• 18 August – Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (d. 2008)
• August 29 – Sorel Etrog, Romanian-born Canadian sculptor, writer and philosopher (d. 2014)
• September 18 – Mark di Suvero, Chinese-born Italian American abstract expressionist sculptor
• September 30 – Ilya Kabakov, Soviet-born conceptual artist (d. 2023)
• October 9 – Bill Tidy, British cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2023)
• October 12 – Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (d. 2004)
• October 23 – Juraj Bartusz, Slovak sculptor (d. 2025)
• October 28
• Audrey Amiss, English artist (d. 2013)
• Michael Noakes, English portrait painter (d. 2018)
• October 29 – Sydney Ball, Australian abstract painter (d. 2017)
• November 8 – Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (d. 2004)
• November 18
• Bruce Conner, American artist in experimental film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (d. 2008)
• Charlotte Moorman, American Fluxus performance artist (d. 1991)
• November 29 – James Rosenquist, American painter and muralist (d. 2017)
• November 30 – Sam Gilliam, American painter (d. 2022)
• December 14 – Bapu, Indian film director, cartoonist and painter (d. 2014)

Full date of birth unknown

• John Stuart Ingle, American realist watercolorist (d. 2010)

Deaths

• January 10 – Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Scottish designer (b. 1865)
• January 17 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (b. 1848)
• February 3 – Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzès, French patron and sculptor (b. 1847)
• February 22 – Archibald Knox, Manx designer (b. 1864)
• February 28 – Lilla Cabot Perry, American Impressionist painter (b. 1848)
• March 9 – Joakim Skovgaard, Danish painter (b. 1856)
• March 10 – Émile André, French architect and designer (b. 1871)
• April 16 – Harold Peto, English architect and garden designer (b. 1854)
• May 6 – François Pompon, French sculptor (b. 1856)
• May 25 – James E. Kelly, American sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855)
• June 14 – Hans Prinzhorn, German art historian (b. 1886)
• August 5 – Charles Harold Davis, American landscape painter (b. 1856)
• August 8 – Adolf Loos, Austrian Modernist architect (b. 1870)
• September 27 – Zaida Ben-Yusuf, American portrait photographer (b. 1869)
• October 2 – Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (b. 1846)
• October 24 – Annie Swynnerton, English painter (b. 1844)
• October 26 – José Malhoa, Portuguese painter (b. 1855)
• October 29 – George Luks, American realist painter (b. 1867)
• November 12 – F. Holland Day, American photographer (b. 1864)
• November 14 – Thomas Hayton Mawson, English garden designer (b. 1861)
• November 15 – Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, French furniture designer (b. 1879)
• November 19 – Louise Jopling, English painter (b. 1843)
• December 4 – W. G. R. Sprague, British theatre designer (b. 1863)
• date unknown – Susan Isabel Dacre, English painter (b. 1844)

See also

• 1933 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References