1944 in art

Births

• 9 January – Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d. 2002).
• 10 January – Jeff Jones, American illustrator.
• 12 February - Jane Livingston, American curator.
• 4 March – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
• 29 March – Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d. 2018).
• 4 April – Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor (d. 2023).
• 8 May – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d. 2003).
• 24 July – Maya Wildevuur, Dutch painter (d. 2023).
• 4 August – Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media.
• 15 August – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d. 2007).
• 20 August – Brian Barnes, English mural artist.
• 27 August – Catherine Leroy, French-born photographer (d. 2006).
• 1 September – Louis Delsarte, American painter (d. 2020).
• 4 November
• Don Eddy, American painter.
• Michael Heizer, American sculptor, earth artist.
• 23 November – Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d. 2019).

Full date unknown

• Richard Mock, American painter, sculptor and cartoonist (d. 2006).
• Allen Ruppersberg, American conceptual artist, installation artist.

Deaths

• January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
• February 1 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
• February 26 – Lucienne Heuvelmans, French sculptor (b. 1885?)
• April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
• July 18 – Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
• August 2 – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1904)
• August 18 – Hans Mertens, German painter (b. 1906)
• September 3 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait and genre painter (b. 1859)
• September 27
• Aristide Maillol, French sculptor (b. 1861)
• Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Russian-born color photographer (b. 1863)
• David Dougal Williams, British painter (b. 1888)
• October 14 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (b. 1864)
• October 21 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b. 1862)
• November 22 – Sir George Clausen, English artist (b. 1852)
• December 10 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1871)
• December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
• December 24 – Alfred Drury, English sculptor (b. 1856)
• Undated – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (b. 1857)

See also

• 1944 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References