Events from the year 1943 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
- January 8 â Sighsten HerrgÃÂ¥rd, Swedish fashion designer (d.1989)
- January 20 â Jessica Rawson, English art historian
- February 22 â DragoÃ
¡ KalajiÃÂ, Serbian modern painter (d. 2005)
- April 24 â Jüri Kerem, Estonian portraitist
- May 1 â Judith Scott, American outsider fiber sculptor (d. 2005)
- May 6 â James Turrell, American installation artist
- June 22 â Gordon Matta-Clark, American situationist, site-specific artist and performance artist (d.1978)
- July 15 â Michael Asher, American conceptual artist and installation artist (d. 2012)
- July 29 â Martha Rosler, American video, photo-text, installation and performance artist
- August 30 â Robert Crumb, American cartoonist
- September 5 â Jerry Wilkerson, American painter (d. 2007)
- September 17 â Gilbert (Proesch), Italian-born artist partnering with George (Passmore)
- October 1 â Sami Mohammad, Kuwaiti sculptor and artist
- November 11 â Dave Cockrum, American comic book artist (d. 2006)
- date unknown
- Marta Minujin, Argentine conceptual and performance artist
- Alfredo Rostgaard, Cuban visual artist (d. 2004)
- Tang Da Wu, Singaporean artist
Deaths
- January 13
- Xavier MartÃÂnez, Mexican-born American painter (b. 1869)
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Swiss geometric abstract painter, sculptor and dancer (accidental carbon monoxide poisoning) (born 1889)
- January 25 â Georges Picard, French decorative artist and illustrator (b. 1857)
- March 8 â Alma del Banco, German painter (suicide) (b. 1862)
- March 9 â Otto Freundlich, German painter and sculptor (killed in Majdanek concentration camp) (b. 1878)
- March 12 â Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
- April 13 â Oskar Schlemmer, German sculptor, painter, designer and choreographer (b. 1888)
- May 25 â Percy Shakespeare, English painter (on active service) (b. 1906)
- June 28 â Pietro Porcelli, Italian-born Australian sculptor (b. 1872)
- c. July 11 â Friedrich Adler, German-Jewish designer (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1878)
- August 7 â Sarah Purser, Irish portrait painter and stained-glass maker (b. 1848)
- August 9 â Chaïm Soutine, Belarusian Jewish-born French painter (b. 1893)
- August â Adolf Behrman, Polish painter (killed in BiaÃ
Âystok Ghetto uprising) (b. 1876)
- September 2 â Marsden Hartley, American Modernist painter (b. 1877)
- c. October 10 â Charlotte Salomon, German-Jewish painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1917)
- October 19 â Camille Claudel, French sculptor and graphic artist (in asylum) (b. 1864)
- November 13 â Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (b. 1870)
- December 22 â Beatrix Potter, English writer and illustrator (b. 1866)
See also
References