Events from the year 1958 in art.
Awards
Events
Exhibitions
Works
Births
- 27 January â Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
- 27 February â Max Crivello, Italian artist
- 27 March â Peter Howson, Scottish figurative painter, war artist
- 4 May â Keith Haring, American artist and social activist (d.1990).
- 8 September â Reiko Terashima, Japanese manga artist and illustrator.
- 23 October â Axel Krause, German painter and graphic artist.
- 5 December â Julio Galán, Mexican artist (d.2006).
- date unknown
- Helena Klakocar, Dutch cartoonist
- Doris Salcedo, Colombian visual artist and sculptor
- Yoshiteru Otani, Japanese cartoonist
- Adrian Wiszniewski, Scottish figurative painter
Deaths
- January 28 â Ferenc Helbing, Hungarian painter and lithographer (b. 1870)
- January 30 â Jean Crotti, Swiss-born painter (b. 1878)
- February 13 â Georges Rouault, French Fauvist and Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (b. 1871)
- February 16 â Situ Qiao, Chinese painter (b. 1902)
- February 26 â Yokoyama Taikan, Japanese painter (b. 1868)
- March 1 â Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (b. 1871)
- March 22 â Claire McCardell, American fashion designer (b. 1905)
- April 11 â Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and theatre designer (b. 1875)
- May 11 â Lucien Lelong, French fashion designer (b. 1889)
- August 12 â André Bauchant, French naïve painter (b. 1873)
- August 22 â Ted Sears, American animator (b. 1900)
- August 23 â Marlow Moss, English Constructivist artist (b. 1889)
- August 24 â Paul Henry, Irish painter (b. 1876)
- September 15 â Stephen Bone, English painter (b. 1904)
- October 11
- Maurice de Vlaminck, French Fauvist painter (b. 1876)
- Max Jakob Friedländer, German-born curator and art historian (b. 1867)
- November 17 â Frank Cadogan Cowper, English painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
- November 30 â Sir Hubert Wilkins, Australian explorer and photographer (b. 1888)
- date unknown
- Viktor Jansson, Finnish sculptor (b. 1886)
- Sybil Pye, English bookbinder (b. 1879)
See also
References