Events from the year 1983 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
Deaths
January to June
- 24 February â Roy Krenkel, American illustrator (b.1918).
- 3 March â Hergé, Belgian comics writer and artist (b.1907).
- 21 May â Kenneth Clark, English author, museum director, broadcaster and art historians (b.1903).
- 11 May â Ernst Thoms, German painter (b. 1896).
- 8 June â Rachel Baes, Belgian painter (b.1912).
- 28 June â Dorothy Annan, English painter, potter, and muralist (b. 1900)
July to December
- 14 July â Philip Zec, British editorial cartoonist (b. 1909).
- 12 August â Franz Radziwill, German painter (b. 1895).
- 18 August â Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b.1902).
- 28 October â Otto Messmer, American animator (b.1892).
- 5 November â Jean-Marc Reiser, French comics creator (b.1941).
- 17 November â John Russell Harper, Canadian art historian (b.1914).
- 2 December â Aart van den IJssel, Dutch sculptor (b.1922).
- 20 December â Bill Brandt, German-born British photographer and photojournalist (b.1904).
- 23 December â Colin Middleton, Irish artist (b.1910).
- 25 December â Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (b.1893).
- 26 December â Hans Liska, Austrian-born German artist (b. 1907).
Full date unknown
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