1911 in art

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Events

• Herwarth Walden coins the term expressionism.

Bremer artist dispute

• January: Because Gustav Pauli, Scientific Director has purchased from the Kunstverein in Bremen, the image field of poppies by Vincent van Gogh for the Kunsthalle Bremen, a " word of exhortation " appears in the Bremer Nachrichten. This is the impetus for the Bremen artist dispute.
• April 17: In the 80-page brochure dispute Bremer artist A protest German artist Carl Vinnen and another appears. In June, a response header is displayed under the title In the battle for the arts. The answer to the "Protest German artist."

Architecture

• The Curio House in Hamburg is completed, built according to a design by the architect Johann Emil Schaudt for the Society of Friends of patriotic education and Education, after the founder of this company, Johann Carl Daniel Curio, named.

Sculpture

Painting

• November / December: Umberto Boccioni painted after a visit to Paris La strada entra nella the image casa and titled it for the time being simply balcony.

• Franz Marc painted the watercolor horses in landscape. It is probably a study for the resultant in the same year work The large blue horses.
• Cubism splits into Salonkubisten and Galeriekubisten.

Exhibitions and Museums

Miscellaneous

• March 25: An exhibition of the Association of Moravian - German visual artist will be opened in Brno, the Kaiser- Franz- Joseph - anniversary Künstlerhaus.
• May-June: The Sonderbundskrieg West German art lovers and artists held in the Municipal Art Gallery in Dusseldorf its third exhibition, which is subtitled Rhenish and French art. On display are 147 exhibits, including 101 French works.
• June 21-July 11: The German gallery owner Paul Cassirer provides the Café Schönbrunn in Carlsbad for the first time works by Oskar Kokoschka from. It is approximately 30 paintings and eight illustrations to his poem The white animal killer. The collector Karl Ernst Osthaus brings the exhibition into his private Folkwang Museum in Hagen and acquires a portrait entitled A preciöse woman.

• The cubism related Groupe de Puteaux has at the Salon des Independants in Paris a much debated issue.

New Artists ' Association of Munich / The Blue Rider

• December 2: After a quarrel provoked by him Wassily Kandinsky leaves the New Artists ' Association of Munich and founded with Franz Marc, the artist association Der Blaue Reiter.
• December 18: After the breakup of the New Artists ' Association of Munich both their last show and the first of the editors of Der Blaue Reiter will be opened on the same day on which, among others, Franz Marc 's painting shows the yellow cow.

• Images from the first exhibition of the Blaue Reiter '' ''

Franz Marc: Monkey Frieze, 1911

August Macke: The Storm, 1911

August Macke: Indians on horses, 1911

Other Events

• AUGUST 21: The portrait of the Mona Lisa is stolen from the 31- year Italian painter Vincenzo Peruggia from the Louvre. During the investigations advised, among others, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire and the painter Pablo Picasso in suspicion.

Born

• February 20: Hans Scholz, German writer, journalist and painter († 1988)
• MARCH 11: Fritz Trautwein, Hamburg architect († 1993)
• March 24: Joseph Barbera, American character animator and producer ( † 2006)
• April 3: Eugen Eckert, German sculptor and painter († 1998)
• April 5: Dieter Oesterlen, German architect and university teachers († 1994)
• MAY 3: Henry Kiefer, German painter and graphic artist († 1980)
• MAY 15: Max Frisch, Swiss architect and writer († 1991)
• June 14: Marcel Perincioli, Swiss sculptor († 2005)
• June 16: Georg Meistermann, German painter († 1990)
• September 10: Hans Baumgartner, Swiss photographer († 1996)
• October 21: Mary Blair, American artist († 1978)
• October 25: Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter († 1984)
• October 31: Hans Mennekes, German artist († 1983)
• November 11: Roberto Matta, Chilean painter of Surrealism († 2002)
• NOVEMBER 20: David Seymour, a Polish photographer ( † 1956)
• December 10: Anni Schaad, founder of fashion jewelry workshop Langani († 1988)
• December 25: Louise Bourgeois, French painter and sculptor († 2010)
• December 30: Margret Thomann Hegner, German painter and graphic artist († 2005)

Died

• January 2: Maurice Yvon, French architect (* 1857)
• FEBRUARY 25: Fritz von Uhde, German painter (* 1848)
• March 5: Gottlob Theuerkauf, German painter and lithographer (* 1833)
• 9 June: John Otzen, German architect (* 1839)
• June 14: Fedor Flinzer, German illustrator, educator and author (* 1832)
• July 3: Ernst Hoeltzer, German telegraph operator and photographer (* 1835)
• August 3: Reinhold Bega, German sculptor and painter (* 1831)
• August 21: Jozef Israels, Dutch painter (* 1827)
• August 22: Theodor Scheimpflug, discoverer of the photographic rule ( * 1865)