1934 in art

Exhibitions

• April - The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.

Awards

• Archibald Prize: Henry Hanke – Self Portrait
• Légion d'honneur: Gen Paul

Births

• January 3 - Yves Gaucher, Canadian artist (d. 2000)
• January 4 – Zurab Tsereteli, Georgian painter and sculptor (d. 2025)
• January 18 – Raymond Briggs, English illustrator (d. 2022)
• February 11 – Mary Quant, English fashion designer (d. 2023)
• February 26
• Frank Bowling, Guyanese-born painter
• José Luis Cuevas, Mexican artist (d. 2017)
• February 27 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
• March 1 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian sculptor (d. 2005)
• March 7 – Gray Morrow, American comic book artist and book illustrator (d. 2001)
• March 20 – Eric Hebborn, English art forger (d. 1996)
• April 16 – Vicar, Chilean comic book artist
• May 29 – Jef Geys, Belgian artist (d. 2018)
• June 15 – Aron Tager, American-Canadian actor, voice actor and artist (d. 2019)
• June 18 – Dimitris Mytaras, Greek painter (d. 2017)
• June 20 – Rius, Mexican cartoonist (d. 2017)
• July 11 – Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
• July 18 – Jean-Michel Sanejouand, French painter and sculptor (d. 2021)
• July 24 – Lee Friedlander, American photographer
• August 14 – Lucien Clergue, French photographer (d. 2014)
• September 14 – Kate Millett, American sculptor and feminist activist (d. 2017)
• October 14 – Rose Wylie, English painter
• December 28 – Alasdair Gray, Scottish fiction writer and artist (d. 2019)
• date unknown
• Sheila Hicks, American-born textile artist
• Neil Williams, American painter (d. 1988)

Deaths

• March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist and designer (b. 1881)
• March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
• April 11 – John Collier, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1850)
• June 29 – Adolf KaÅ¡par, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
• July 1 – Jules Monge, French painter (b. 1855)
• August 17 – Aleksandr Borisov, Russian Arctic landscape painter (b. 1866)
• September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1884)
• October 11 – M. O. Hammond, Canadian photographer (b. 1876)
• October 12 – Gertrude Käsebier, American portrait photographer (b. 1852)
• October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
• November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (b. 1854)
• December 4 – Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter (b. 1849)
• December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
• date unknown – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1850)

See also

• 1934 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References