1943 in art

Births

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

See also

• 1943 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References