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Overview of the events of 1945 in art
Events from the year 1945 in art .
Events
April 12 – President of the United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt collapses while having
a portrait painted by
Elizabeth Shoumatoff at
Warm Springs, Georgia , dying shortly afterwards.
[1]
April 15 –
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated. Among the British
war artists (official and unofficial) who record it soon afterwards are Sgt.
Eric Taylor ,
Leslie Cole ,
Doris Zinkeisen ,
Edgar Ainsworth (of
Picture Post ) ,
Mervyn Peake and
Mary Kessell .
[2]
April 28 – Professor
Anthony Blunt is appointed to succeed Sir
Kenneth Clark as
Surveyor of the King's Pictures in the
United Kingdom .
May
July–December –
Han van Meegeren paints his last forgery of a
Dutch Golden Age painting , Jesus among the Doctors , before witnesses in
Amsterdam to refute charges of having sold genuine Dutch cultural property to Nazis (for which he was arrested on
May 29 ).
[5]
October 25 –
Jackson Pollock marries
Lee Krasner .
Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.
New York businessman Henry Pearlman acquires
Chaïm Soutine 's View of Céret , the foundation of his collection of
modern art .
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
January 20 –
Susan Rothenberg ,
American painter
[7]
January 25 –
Barbara Kruger , American photographer, graphic artist and sculptor
January 31 –
Joseph Kosuth , American
conceptual artist
March 4 –
Rose Finn-Kelcey ,
English
performance and
installation artist (d.
2014 )
March 8 –
Anselm Kiefer ,
German sculptor
June 2 –
Richard Long , English
land artist
June 14 –
Jörg Immendorff , German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.
2007 )
June 30 –
Sean Scully , Irish-born painter
July 16 –
Victor Sloan ,
Irish visual artist
July 28 –
Jim Davis , American cartoonist, creator of "Garfield"
August 4 –
Paul McCarthy , American sculptor and installation and video artist
August 6 –
Duggie Fields , English painter (d.
2012 )
August 9 –
Posy Simmonds , English cartoonist
August 18 –
Brummbaer , German digital artist
August 19 –
Peter Reginato , American sculptor
September 27 –
Jack Goldstein ,
Canadian -born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (d.
2003 )
October 13 –
Heinz Plank , German painter, draughtsman and graphic artist
October 23 –
Maggi Hambling , English painter and sculptor
November 14 –
David Nash , English sculptor and academic
December 18 –
Nasser Khalili , Iranian-British collector, art scholar, investor and philanthropist
date unknown
Deaths
January 3 -
René Gimpel , French art dealer (b.
1881 )
January 7 –
Alexander Stirling Calder , American sculptor (b.
1870 )
February 7 –
H. J. Ward , American illustrator (b.
1909 )
February 21 –
Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen ,
Danish sculptor (born
1863 )
March 5 –
Albert Richards , English war artist (b.
1919 ); killed on active service in the Netherlands
March 6 –
Milena Pavlović-Barili ,
Serbian painter and poet (b.
1909 ); died in riding accident in the United States
March 10 –
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale , English painter (b.
1872 )
March 31 – Hando Ruus, Estonian painter (b.
1917 ); presumed executed as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union
April –
Josef Čapek , Czech painter and writer (b.
1887 ); died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
April 22 –
Käthe Kollwitz , German painter, lithographer and sculptor (b.
1867 )
May 5 –
René Lalique , French glass designer (b.
1860 )
June 15 –
Nikola Avramov , Bulgarian painter (b.
1897 )
September 16 –
David Young Cameron , Scottish painter and etcher (b.
1865 )
October 24 –
Franklin Carmichael , Canadian painter (b.
1890 )
October 31 –
Ignacio Zuloaga , Basque painter (b.
1870 )
November 23 –
Ljubomir Ivanović ,
Serbian painter (b.
1882 )
November –
Thomas Hennell , English painter (b.
1903 ); presumed killed on active service in Indonesia
December 20 –
Ong Schan Tchow ,
Chinese artist (b.
1900 ); died in Malaysia
date unknown
See also
References