1913 in art
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Events
Sculpture and Architecture
- August 23: In Copenhagen, the Edvard Eriksen created by Little Mermaid, which is the landmark of the city, revealed. The artist was inspired in the work of the figure of Joan of Arc by Henri Michel Chapu. He designed the head modeled after the prima ballerina Ellen Price, in Copenhagen 1909 was very popular as a leading actress of a ballet of the same name. The body was modeled after his wife Eline, as Price had refused to serve the artist as a nude model. The client is the patron of the arts and son of the founder of the Copenhagen-based Carlsberg Brewery, Carl Jacobsen.
- September 13: Built by William Lossow and his son Max Hans Kühne in the style of Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau New Royal Theatre in Dresden will be opened after two years of construction. Since the building is located in close proximity to the kennel that this outside facing was adapted to the architecture and provided with arcades and baroque decorative elements.
- SEPTEMBER 30: The city theater in Heilbronn, one erected according to plans by Theodor Fischer Art Nouveau, is inaugurated after around ten years of planning and a year of construction.
- November 27: In Bern, the the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, inspired Hotel Bellevue Palace is opened. The newly-built by Paul Lindt and Max Hoffmann after his demolition of the building is a textbook example of the neoclassical architecture reform.
- Marcel Duchamp creates the Bicycle Wheel ( Roue de Bicyclette ) as the first objet trouvé and kinetic art object.
Museums and exhibitions
- September 20: The First German Autumn Salon is opened under the management of the gallery Herwarth Walden. Among other things, the painting is exhibited The Tower of Blue Horses by Franz Marc here. The salon closes on 1 December.
Others
- Spring: Man Ray pulls in an artists' colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey, where he met the poet Adon Lacroix, whom he married in May.
- July: Roger Fry, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, founded with the help of his friends and co-directors Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and financial support of art lovers like George Bernard Shaw in a framework established by Robert Adam townhouse at Fitzroy Square in London, the experimental design workshop Omega Workshops with the aim to transfer the modern art on interior design and book design.
- The Russian avant-garde Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov published the manifesto of Rayonism.
- By splitting off from the Upper Austrian Art Association created the Linz artist union MARCH.
- Members of the Camden Town Group Form The London Group. Among the founding fathers include David Bomberg, Henri Gaudier- Brzeska, Jacob Epstein, Charles Ginner, Spencer Gore, Percy Wyndham Lewis, John Nash, Christopher Nevinson and Edward Wadsworth. Harold Gilman, the first president of the Artists' Association.
- December 31: The Mona Lisa returns after two -year absence, back to the Louvre, after it has been stolen in 1911 by Italian craftsmen Vincenzo Peruggia.
Born
First half year
- JANUARY 23: Jean -Michel Atlan, French artist († 1960)
- FEBRUARY 15: Willy Vandersteen, Belgian comic artist († 1990)
- February 20: Rolf Italiaander, German writer and art collector ( † 1991)
- March 30: Marc Davis, American animator († 2000)
- April 5: Clavé, Spanish painter and sculptor († 2005)
- April 5: Ruth Smith, Faroese painter and graphic artist († 1958)
- April 15: Manfred Schmidt, German comic artist and humorous travel writer († 1999)
- APRIL 27: Willy Schürmann, painter and graphic artist († 2008)
- May 3: Lothar Malskat, painter and art forger († 1988)
- MAY 15: Herbert Stockmann, German painter and graphic artist († 1947)
- MAY 18: Charles Trenet, French singer, composer, poet and painter († 2001)
- MAY 24: Peter Ellenshaw, English painter († 2007)
- MAY 24: Roland Kohlsaat, German comic artist, illustrator and author († 1978)
- May 27: wolf, German painter, draftsman, printmaker († 1951)
- JUNE 13: Manfred Lehmbruck, German architect († 1992)
- June 18: Clifford Coffin, American photographer († 1972)
Second half- year
Died
- March 30: Hans Arnold, German sculptor (* 1860)
- April 1: Otto March, German architect (* 1845)
- APRIL 27: Gabriel von Seidl, German architect and representatives of historicism (* 1848)
- JUNE 27: Joseph Altheimer, German painter and graphic artist (* 1860)
- December 15: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach, German painter and social reformer (* 1851)