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Overview of the events of 1913 in art
Events from the year 1913 in art .
Portrait of
Isaak Brodsky by
Ilya Repin
Armory Show poster
February 17 – The
Armory Show opens in
New York City . It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century.
March 10 – French sculptor
Camille Claudel is committed by her family to a
psychiatric hospital where she will remain until her death in 1943.
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April –
Marcel Duchamp withdraws from painting and begins working as a library assistant in the
Sainte-Geneviève Library in Paris to be able to earn a living wage while concentrating on scholarship and working on his
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even .
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May – The
Paul Émile Chabas painting
September Morn provokes a charge of indency when displayed in the window of a
Chicago art gallery.
May 27 –
Die Brücke dissolved.
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May 29 – The
ballet
The Rite of Spring , with music by
Igor Stravinsky conducted by
Pierre Monteux , choreography by
Vaslav Nijinsky and design by
Nicholas Roerich , is premièred by
Sergei Diaghilev 's
Ballets Russes at the
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in
Paris , its
modernism provoking one of the most famous
classical music riots in history.
[3] The audience includes
Gabriele D'Annunzio ,
Coco Chanel ,
Marcel Duchamp ,
Harry Graf Kessler and
Maurice Ravel .
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August–September –
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner spends the summer painting on the island of
Fehmarn ; returning to Berlin he begins his series of
street scenes from around the
Potsdamer Platz .
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September 19 –
First German Autumn Salon opens in Berlin, featuring 366 paintings by 90 artists from 12 countries, notably
Franz Marc ;
Guillaume Apollinaire and
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti deliver accompanying lectures.
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Autumn – The Neue Galerie in Berlin reopens with displays of the work of
Picasso and others associated with French
Modernism .
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October –
August Macke paints at
Hilterfingen .
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October 18 –
Monument to the Battle of the Nations at
Leipzig , designed by
Bruno Schmitz incorporating sculptures by
Christian Behrens and
Franz Metzner , is inaugurated.
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December 12 –
Leonardo da Vinci 's
Mona Lisa , stolen from the
Louvre in
1911 , is located in
Florence when
Vincenzo Peruggia attempts to sell it. It is returned to Paris on December 30.
Generación del 13 established in
Chile .
The London Group is formed by merger of the
Camden Town Group and the
Vorticists ; it will hold its first exhibition in March 1914.
Target , the first exhibition of
Rayonism .
Maurice Utrillo has his first solo exhibition, at the Galerie Blot in
Paris , but attracts little notice at this time.
[5]
Omega Workshops established in
London by
Roger Fry and other members of the
Bloomsbury Group to produce artist-designed furniture and textiles.
Wyndham Lewis and others secede in October.
First observation of a
chimpanzee drawing.
[6]
English connoisseur
Hugh Blaker discovers and acquires the "
Isleworth Mona Lisa ".
Guillaume Apollinaire 's
The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques ) is published in Paris.
Jean Metzinger, 1912-1913,
L'Oiseau bleu (The Blue Bird) , oil on canvas, 230 x 196 cm,
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Franz Marc , Tierschicksale ,
Kunstmuseum Basel
Epstein 's
Rock Drill in original form on machine base
January 29 –
Reuben Kadish , American artist and educator (died
1992 )
January 30 –
Amrita Sher-Gil , Hungarian-Indian painter (died
1941 )
February 15 –
William Scott ,
Ulster Scots painter (died
1989 )
March 8 –
Peter Wilson , English art auctioneer (died
1984 )
March 12 –
Max Leognany , French artist (died
1994 )
March 19 –
Mary Henry , American painter (died
2009 )
March 23 –
Abidin Dino , Turkish artist (died
1993 )
March 29 –
Hyman Bloom ,
Latvian American painter (died
2009 )
April 21 –
Norman Parkinson , English fashion photographer (died
1990 )
May 6 –
Marianne Appel , American mural painter and puppet designer (died
1988 )
May 7 -
Mary Spencer Watson , English sculptor (died
2006 )
May 27 –
Wols , born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, German-born painter and draughtsman (died
1951 )
July 12 –
Roger Testu , French cartoonist (died
2008 )
July 22 –
Robert C. Turner , American potter (died
2005 )
July 27 –
Philip Guston , Canadian-born American
Abstract Expressionist painter and
printmaker (died
1980 )
September 1 –
Ludwig Merwart , Austrian painter and
graphic artist (died
1979 )
September 25 –
Tony O'Malley , Irish painter (died
2003 )
September 28 –
Warja Honegger-Lavater , Swiss artist and illustrator (died
2007 )
October 22 –
Robert Capa , born Endre Friedmann, Hungarian-born war photographer (died
1954 )
November 21 –
Tomie Ohtake , Japanese-Brazilian artist (died
2015 )
December 13 –
Vladimir Tretchikoff , Russian artist (died
2006 )
December 24 –
Ad Reinhardt , American painter and writer (died
1967 )
Full date unknown
January 6 –
Gyula Juhász , Hungarian sculptor and engraver (born
1876 )
March 8 –
Louis Saint-Gaudens , American sculptor (born
1854 )
March 13 –
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo , Filipino painter (born
1855 )
April 20 –
Vilhelm Bissen , Danish sculptor (born
1836 )
May 10 –
Andreas Aubert , Norwegian art historian (born
1851 )
June 23 -
Marc-Louis Solon , French-born ceramic artist (born
1835 )
July 10 –
Mikoláš Aleš , Czech painter (born
1852 )
August 2 -
George Hitchcock , American painter (born
1850 )
August 7 –
Fernand Pelez , French painter (born
1843 )
September 28 – Sir
Alfred East , English painter (born
1844 )
October 5 –
Hans von Bartels , German painter (born 1856)
Full date unknown –
Caroline Shawk Brooks , American sculptor (born
1840 )