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Overview of the events of 1918 in art
Events from the year 1918 in art .
Events
February –
British War Memorials Committee formed to commission artworks to create a memorial to the
World War I , including a (never-built)
Hall of Remembrance .
February 16 –
Joan Miró 's first solo exhibition opens at the
Galeries Dalmau ; his work is ridiculed and defaced.
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March –
C. R. W. Nevinson has an exhibition at the
Leicester Galleries in London. His war painting
Paths of Glory , condemned by the
British Army censor for its depiction of dead soldiers, is displayed by the artist with a brown paper strip across the bodies bearing the word "Censored" and subsequently replaced in the exhibition by a
painting of a tank .
May –
Stanley Spencer , a serving British Army soldier, is appointed as an official
war artist . A similar appointment is made this year for
Australian soldier
Frank R. Crozier .
May 3 –
William Orpen 's exhibition War opens in London; the paintings are donated to the British government. He is
knighted in June.
May 11 –
Paul Nash 's exhibition The Void of War opens at the Leicester Galleries in London.
June 18 –
Pablo Picasso marries
Olga Khoklova .
June –
Alfred Stieglitz begins nude photography of
Georgia O'Keeffe .
October 15 –
Kunsthalle Bern opened.
November 3 – The
Robespierre Monument (Moscow) , designed by Beatrice Yuryevna Sandomierz, is unveiled; it collapses four days later.
November 7 –
December 14 – British painter
Colin Gill , having previously served as a soldier on the
Western Front , returns to France to work for the British War Memorials Committee.
December 3 – The
November Group (Novembergruppe ) of expressionist artists is formed in Germany, and shortly afterwards merges with the
Arbeitsrat für Kunst .
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Denver Art Museum in Colorado opens its first galleries.
Frans Masereel 's wordless novel
25 Images of a Man's Passion is published.
Works
John Nash – The Cornfield (
Tate )
John Nash –
Over The Top (
IWM )
Paul Nash –
We are Making a New World (IWM)
Births
6 February –
Lothar-Günther Buchheim ,
German
author ,
painter and art collector (d.
2007 ).
7 February –
Markey Robinson ,
Irish painter (d.
1999 ).
12 March –
Elaine de Kooning ,
American
abstract expressionist painter (d.
1989 )
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22 March –
Harry Devlin , American painter and illustrator (d.
2001 ).
10 April –
Cornell Capa ,
Hungarian -American
photographer and photo curator (d.
2008 ).
9 May –
Kyffin Williams ,
Welsh landscape painter (d.
2006 )
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10 May –
Desmond MacNamara , Irish painter,
sculptor and author (d.
2008 ).
30 May –
Károly Doncsecz , Slovenian potter (d.
2002 )
2 July –
Fumiko Hori ,
Japanese
Nihonga painter (d.
2019 ).
11 July –
Roy Krenkel , American illustrator (d.
1983 ).
21 July –
David Piper ,
English curator and novelist (d.
1990 ).
25 July –
Jane Frank , American painter, sculptor,
mixed media and
textile artist (d.
1986 ).
8 August –
Brian Stonehouse , English painter,
Special Operations Executive agent during
World War II (d.
1998 ).
22 September –
Cleve Gray , American abstract expressionist painter (d.
2004 ).
7 October –
Mimmo Rotella ,
Italian
décollage
artist and
poet (d.
2006 ).
8 November –
Hermann Zapf , German typeface designer (d.
2015 ).
20 November –
Corita Kent , American nun and silkscreen printer (d.
1986 ).
14 December –
Jack Cole , American comic book artist (d.
1958 ).
18 December –
Kali , born Hanna Gordziałkowska, Polish-born portrait painter, Resistance agent during World War II (d.
1998 ).
Deaths
January 7 –
Rista Vukanović ,
Serbian
Impressionist painter and husband of painter
Beta Vukanović (b.
1873 )
February 6 –
Gustav Klimt ,
Austrian Symbolist painter (b.
1862 )
April 9 –
Niko Pirosmani ,
Georgian painter (b. 1862)
April 1 –
Isaac Rosenberg , English painter and poet (b.
1890 )
April 23 –
Paul Sébillot ,
Breton painter and author (b.
1842 )
May 19 –
Ferdinand Hodler ,
Swiss painter (b.
1853 )
June 28 –
Albert Henry Munsell , American inventor of the
Munsell color system (b.
1858 )
October 9 –
Raymond Duchamp-Villon ,
French sculptor (b.
1876 )
October 30 –
Egon Schiele ,
Austrian painter (b.
1890 )
November 20 –
John Bauer ,
Swedish illustrator (in shipwreck) (b.
1882 )
December 22 –
Charles Edward Perugini , English painter (b.
1839 )
December 23 –
Thérèse Schwartze ,
Dutch portrait painter (b.
1851 )
References