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December 6: The German archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt discovered at Tell El -Amarna, the 3000 year old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of Akhenaten.

This was designed by the architect Martin Dülfer, built in neoclassical style in the Theater Duisburg Duisburg's city center is completed. The opening ceremony takes place on November 7.

January: Marcel Duchamp painted Nude Descending a Staircase no.2, a key work of classical modernism, which he submitted at the Salon des Independants to take place from March 20 to May 16 exhibition. The artists of the cubist Puteaux Group, led by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, but take Duchamp's work as a mockery of their style and lean from the factory, therefore. Duchamp is taught on the day of opening of the exhibition of his brothers Jacques and Raymond from the decision. Marcel Duchamp goes in the subsequent period at a distance to the Cubists. Only a month later, he exhibited the act at a Kubistenausstellung in Barcelona, where the image aroused little attention.

The term Orphism is characterized by the writer Guillaume Apollinaire for the pictures Robert Delaunay, an introduction to the Delaunay exhibition at the gallery are the storm of Herwarth Walden in the same year. He sees this as the overcoming of Cubism.
Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso develop the papier collé, an early form of collage.
Juan Gris painting a tribute to Pablo Picasso.

Paul Émile Chabas completed after three years his work Matinée de Setembre which causes a scandal.

5 to 24 February: In the Paris Galerie Bernheim -Jeune, the first group exhibition of the Futurists outside Italy will take place.
APRIL 12: Herwarth Walden organized in the gallery of the magazine Der Sturm in Berlin the first Futurist exhibition in Germany.
May 25 to September 30: In Cologne, an exhibition of the Special Federal takes place.
Autumn: The Cubist Section d'Or exhibition community has in the Galerie La Boétie in Paris its first exhibition, accompanied by the publication of Jean Metzinger Cubisme and Albert Gleizes. There, among others, Marcel Duchamp's painting Nude Descending a Staircase is shown no.2.

The Russian avant-garde group of artists donkey tail around Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov and Natalia Goncharova Sergejewna has her first exhibition.
The art exhibition hall at Marientor in Nuremberg is built.

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm and art competitions in the fields of architecture, literature, music, painting and sculpture are held. Walter Winans was awarded a gold medal for his work in the field of sculpture trotter.

January 4: Marta Hoepffner, German photographer († 2000)
JANUARY 28: Jackson Pollock, American painter († 1956)
March 4: African Basaldella, Italian painter († 1976)
March 14: Werner Viktor Toeffling, German painter and stage designer († 2001)
April 13: Bernard of Glisczynski, German architect († 1993)
APRIL 14: Robert Doisneau, French photographer († 1994)
MAY 15: Max Fighting, Swiss painter and graphic artist († 1982)
June 4: Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist († 1993)
JULY 10: Hans Meyer, German artist and author
August 1: Damien Parer, Australian cameraman and photographer ( † 1944)
AUGUST 21: Robert Lips, Swiss cartoonist († 1975)
AUGUST 29: Emil Schumacher, German painter († 1999)
September 6: Nicolas Schoeffer, Hungarian - French sculptor († 1992)
SEPTEMBER 21: Chuck Jones, American cartoonist († 2002)
September 29: Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian film director, writer and painter († 2007)
October 16: Ludwig Black, Austrian painter († 1989)
October 31: Ollie Johnston, American animator († 2008)
November 5: Carl Baumann, German artist († 1996)
November 28: Morris Louis, American painter († 1962)
December 1: Minoru Yamasaki, American architect († 1986)
DECEMBER 21: Walter Henn, German architect, civil engineer and high school teacher († 2006)

JANUARY 25: Karl Junker, German painter, sculptor and architect (* 1850)
March 16: Elizabeth Adela Forbes, Canadian painter of the late Impressionism (* 1859)
APRIL 20: Pedro Lira, Chilean painter (* 1845)
June 1: Daniel Hudson Burnham, American urban planner and architect (* 1846)
JULY 4: Hinrich Wrage, German landscape painter and graphic artist (* 1843)
June 7: Albert Welti, Swiss painter and etcher (* 1862)
August 10: Paul Wallot, German architect (* 1841)
October 7: Wilhelm Manchot, German architect (* 1844)
November 17: Richard Norman Shaw, British architect (* 1831)
December 6: Henry Browne Hagreen, British painter (c. 1831)

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