1906 in art
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Events

  • Gwen John
    Gwen John
    Gwendolen Mary John was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. She is noted for her still lifes and for her portraits, especially of anonymous female sitters...

     begins modelling for Auguste Rodin
    Auguste Rodin
    François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...

    .
  • Amedeo Modigliani
    Amedeo Modigliani
    Amedeo Clemente Modigliani was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France. Primarily a figurative artist, he became known for paintings and sculptures in a modern style characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form...

     arrives in Paris.
  • Ferdinand Preiss
    Ferdinand Preiss
    Johann Philipp Ferdinand Preiss was a German sculptor. He was born in Erbach im Odenwald as one of six children. Both of his parents died when he was 15 so that he was apprenticed to the ivory carver Philipp Willmann and lived with his family...

     opens his workshop in Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

    .

Works

  • Paul Cézanne
    Paul Cézanne
    Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

     - The Gardener Vallier
  • André Derain
    André Derain
    André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.-Early years:...

     - Charing Cross Bridge, London
  • Wilhelm Hammershoi - Interior
  • Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse
    Henri Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter...

    • Self-Portrait in a Striped T-Shirt
    • The Young Sailor II
  • Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Picasso
    Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...

    • Portrait of Gertrude Stein
    • Self-Portrait with Palette
  • Claude Monet
    Claude Monet
    Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...

    • "Water Lilies, 1906"
  • Walter Sickert
    Walter Sickert
    Walter Richard Sickert , born in Munich, Germany, was a painter who was a member of the Camden Town Group in London. He was an important influence on distinctively British styles of avant-garde art in the 20th century....

     - La Hollandaise

January to June

  • January 3 - Óscar Domínguez
    Óscar Domínguez
    Oscar M. Domínguez was a Spanish surrealist painter.Born in San Cristóbal de La Laguna on the island of Tenerife, Domínguez spent his youth with his grandmother in Tacoronte and devoted himself to painting at a young age after suffering a serious illness which affected his growth and caused a...

    , painter (d.1957
    1957 in art
    -Events:*Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery.*John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art.-Works:*Maurice Boitel - The Hens*Paul-Émile Borduas - Étoile noire*Arthur Boyd - Dreaming Bridegroom 1...

    )
  • January 13 - Burgoyne Diller
    Burgoyne Diller
    Burgoyne A. Diller was an American abstract painter. Many of his best-known works are characterized by orthogonal geometric forms that reflect his strong interest in the De Stijl movement and the work of Piet Mondrian in particular...

    , painter (d.1965
    1965 in art
    -Events:*Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.*December - Max's Kansas City - opens-Works:*Yaacov Agam - Double Metamorphosis II*Lucian Freud - Reflection with Two Children *L. S...

    )
  • March 8 - Victor Hasselblad
    Victor Hasselblad
    Victor Hasselblad was a Swedish inventor and photographer, known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm medium format camera....

    , Swedish
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

     inventor and photographer (d.1978
    1978 in art
    -Works:* Dan Flavin - untitled * Helen Frankenthaler - Cleveland Symphony Orchestra* Jack Goldstein - The Jump* Liz Leyh - Concrete Cows, Milton Keynes* Dennis Oppenheim - Cobalt Vectors - An Invasion...

    ).
  • March 9 - David Smith, sculptor (d.1965
    1965 in art
    -Events:*Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.*December - Max's Kansas City - opens-Works:*Yaacov Agam - Double Metamorphosis II*Lucian Freud - Reflection with Two Children *L. S...

    ).
  • March 26 - Henri Cadiou
    Henri Cadiou
    Henri Cadiou was a French realist painter and lithographer known for his work in trompe-l'oeil paintings. He is credited with being a founder of the l’école de la réalité in 1949...

    , French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

     realist painter and lithographer (d.1989
    1989 in France
    See also:1988 in France,other events of 1989,1990 in France.----Events from the year 1989 in France.-Events:*January - Two women, Nathalie Menigon and Joelle Aubron , are found guilty of murdering Renault owner Georges Besse, who was shot dead in Paris November 1986...

    )
  • April 11 - Dale Messick
    Dale Messick
    Dalia Messick was an American comic strip artist who used the pseudonym Dale Messick. She was the creator of Brenda Starr, which at its peak during the 1950s ran in 250 newspapers....

    , first woman syndicated
    Print syndication
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     comic strip
    Comic strip
    A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

     artist in the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     (d.2005
    2005 in art
    -Events:*12–27 February, 2005 – Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park*30 September – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.-Awards:...

    )
  • May 16 - Alfred Pellan
    Alfred Pellan
    For the federal district in Laval, Quebec, see Alfred-Pellan Alfred Pellan, was an important figure in twentieth-century Quebec painting. He was born in Quebec City in 1906. From the age of fourteen until his graduation in 1926 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Québec...

    , Canadian
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     artist
  • May 20 - Leon Polk Smith
    Leon Polk Smith
    Leon Polk Smith was an American painter. His geometrically oriented abstract paintings were influenced by Piet Mondrian and his style has been associated with the Hard-edge school, of which he is considered one of the founders....

    , painter (d.1996
    1996 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville*Jan Amos Comenius Medal – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children* The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney...

    )

July to December

  • 8 July - Philip Johnson
    Philip Johnson
    Philip Cortelyou Johnson was an influential American architect.In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and later , as a trustee, he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and the first Pritzker Architecture...

    , architect, art collector, curator (d. 2005
    2005 in art
    -Events:*12–27 February, 2005 – Christo and wife Jeanne-Claude create The Gates in New York's Central Park*30 September – Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.-Awards:...

    ).
  • 12 August - Tedd Pierce
    Tedd Pierce
    Tedd Pierce , was an American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist. Pierce spent the majority of his career as a writer for the Warner Bros. "Termite Terrace" animation studio, working alongside fellow luminaries such as Chuck Jones and Michael Maltese. Pierce also worked as a writer at...

    , American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     animated cartoon
    Animated cartoon
    An animated cartoon is a short, hand-drawn film for the cinema, television or computer screen, featuring some kind of story or plot...

     writer
    Writer
    A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

    , animator
    Animator
    An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...

     and artist (d.1972
    1972 in art
    -Events:* 16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.* Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters....

    ).
  • 14 August - Horst P. Horst
    Horst P. Horst
    Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann who chose to be known as Horst P. Horst was a German-American fashion photographer.-Early life:...

    , German American
    German American
    German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry and comprise about 51 million people, or 17% of the U.S. population, the country's largest self-reported ancestral group...

     photographer (d.1999
    1999 in art
    -Events:*28 May – After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.*The Stuckism movement is founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.-Works:*Louise Bourgeois – Maman...

    ).
  • 20 August - Heinz Henghes
    Heinz Henghes
    Heinz Henghes was a British sculptor.Born Gustav Heinrich Clusmann in Hamburg , at the age of 17, Henghes ran away from home to go to the United States. In New York City he met a number of artists and writers, and was influenced by Isamu Noguchi...

    , German
    Germany
    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

     sculptor (d.1975
    1975 in art
    -Events:*The artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse is founded by Heimrad Prem and others.*The Brotherhood of Ruralists established at Wellow, Somerset, England.*Mona Hatoum leaves her native Lebanon to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London....

    ).
  • 21 August - Friz Freleng
    Friz Freleng
    Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....

    , American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     animator
    Animator
    An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...

    , cartoonist
    Cartoonist
    A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

    , director
    Film director
    A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

     and producer
    Film producer
    A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

     (d.1995
    1995 in art
    -Works:*Lucian Freud – Benefits Supervisor Sleeping*Eduardo Paolozzi – Newton-Awards:*Archibald Prize – William Robinson, Self-portrait with stunned mullet*Schock Prize in Visual Arts – Claes Oldenburg*Turner Prize – Damien Hirst...

    ).
  • 5 September - Ralston Crawford
    Ralston Crawford
    Ralston Crawford was an American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer.-Early life:He was born on September 5, 1906, in Canada, at St. Catharines, Ontario, and spent his childhood in Buffalo, New York. He studied art beginning in 1927 in California at the Otis Art Institute. After...

    , painter, lithographer and photographer (d.1978
    1978 in art
    -Works:* Dan Flavin - untitled * Helen Frankenthaler - Cleveland Symphony Orchestra* Jack Goldstein - The Jump* Liz Leyh - Concrete Cows, Milton Keynes* Dennis Oppenheim - Cobalt Vectors - An Invasion...

    ).
  • 18 October - James Brooks
    James Brooks (painter)
    James Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island. In 1947 he married artist Charlotte Park...

    , painter and muralist (d.1992
    1992 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...

    ).
  • 24 October - Marie-Louise von Motesiczky
    Marie-Louise Von Motesiczky
    Marie-Louise von Motesiczky was an Austrian painter.- Life and work :She was born in Vienna in 1906 to an aristocratic family. Her father Edmund von Motesiczky was a talented cellist and keen huntsman. Her mother Henriette von Lieben, came from one of the most wealthy and cultured families in the...

    , Austria
    Austria
    Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

    n painter (d.1996
    1996 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize – Wendy Sharpe, Self Portrait as Diana of Erskineville*Jan Amos Comenius Medal – Yaacov Agam, for the "Agam Method" for visual education of young children* The Inaugural Hugo Boss Prize – Matthew Barney...

    ).
  • 27 October - Peter Blume
    Peter Blume
    Peter Blume was an American painter and sculptor. His work contained elements of folk art, precisionism, Parisian Purism, Cubism, and Surrealism.-Biography:...

    , painter (d.1992
    1992 in art
    -Awards:*Archibald Prize: – Bryan Westwood – The Prime Minister *Turner Prize: – Grenville Davey-Works:*Banksy – First graffiti art *Grenville Davey – Hal*Anya Gallaccio – Red on Green...

    ).
  • 10 December - Padraig Marrinan
    Padraig Marrinan
    Padraig Marrinan was an Irish painter. Also known as PH Marrinan or Patrick H Marrinan, he was born in Belfast, Ireland. He contracted poliomyelitis at the age of five years and for several years, he could not walk...

    , Irish
    Ireland
    Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...

     painter (d.1975
    1975 in art
    -Events:*The artists' community Kollektiv Herzogstrasse is founded by Heimrad Prem and others.*The Brotherhood of Ruralists established at Wellow, Somerset, England.*Mona Hatoum leaves her native Lebanon to study at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London....

    ).
  • 14 December - Maxwell Bates
    Maxwell Bates
    Maxwell Bates, CM was a Canadian architect and expressionist painter.Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1906, Bates started painting at an early age; his piece In the Kitchen was painted when he was 15 years old. As a young adult, he worked for his father's architecture firm...

    , Canadian architect
    Architect
    An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

     and expressionist painter (d.1980
    1980 in art
    -Events:* May–September - Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States....

    ).
  • 27 December - Andreas Feininger
    Andreas Feininger
    Andreas Bernhard Lyonel Feininger was a German American photographer, and writer on photographic technique, noted for his dynamic black-and-white scenes of Manhattan and studies of the structure of natural objects....

    , French
    France
    The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

    -born American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     photographer (d.1999
    1999 in art
    -Events:*28 May – After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.*The Stuckism movement is founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson.-Works:*Louise Bourgeois – Maman...

    ).

Deaths

  • January 20 - Philippe Solari
    Philippe Solari
    Philippe Solari was a provencal sculptor, of Italian origin, a contemporary and friend of Paul Cézanne and Emile Zola. He acquired French nationality in 1870.-Youth:...

    , sculptor (b. 1840
    1840 in art
    -Works:*Francis Danby – The Deluge*Eugène Delacroix – Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople *Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury...

    )
  • February 14 - Carl Eneas Sjöstrand
    Carl Eneas Sjöstrand
    Carl Eneas Sjöstrand was a Swedish sculptor.He was born and died in Stockholm. He is the father of Gerda Sjöstrand, the pianist who married Ferruccio Busoni.-External links:* in English*...

    , sculptor (b. 1828
    1828 in art
    -Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...

    )
  • March 29 - Slava Raskaj
    Slava Raškaj
    Slava Raškaj was a painter considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century. Deaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor was the Croatian painter Bela Čikoš Sesija. In the 1890s her works were exhibited around Europe,...

    , Croatian painter (b. 1877
    1877 in art
    -Works:-Paintings:*Frederick Arthur Bridgman - The Funeral Procession of a Mummy on the Nile*Gustave Caillebotte - Rue de Paris; Temps de pluie...

    )
  • April 5 - Wyke Bayliss
    Wyke Bayliss
    Sir Wyke Bayliss was a British painter, author and poet. He almost exclusively painted interiors of British and European churches and cathedrals, and was known in the late Victorian era as an academic authority on art...

    , painter (b. 1835
    1835 in art
    -Works:*John Constable – The Valley Farm*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Hagar in the Desert-Births:*March 31 – John LaFarge, painter and stained-glass artist *June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet...

    )
  • August 29 - Alfred Stevens
    Alfred Stevens (painter)
    Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens was a Belgian painter.Alfred Stevens was born in Brussels. He came from a family involved with the visual arts: his older brother Joseph and his son Léopold were painters, while another brother Arthur was an art dealer and critic...

    , painter (b. 1828
    1828 in art
    -Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...

    )
  • October 22 - Paul Cézanne
    Paul Cézanne
    Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...

    , French painter (b. 1839
    1839 in art
    -Works:*Sir Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence*Carl Spitzweg – The Poor Poet*J. M. W. Turner – The Fighting Temeraire-Births:*January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter *March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter...

    )
  • November 5 - Frits Thaulow
    Frits Thaulow
    Frits Thaulow was a Norwegian impressionist painter, best known for his naturalistic depictions of landscape.-Biography:...

    , Impressionist painter (b. 1847
    1847 in art
    -Events:*William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly-completed Palace of Westminster.-Works:*Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus*Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight...

    )
  • December 31 - Julia Goodman
    Julia Goodman
    Julia Goodman née Salaman was a British portrait painter.The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman and Alice Cowan, she was one of fourteen siblings and first studied painting under Robert Faulkner, himself a pupil of Sir Joshua Reynolds...

    , portrait painter (b. 1812
    1812 in art
    -Works:*Théodore Géricault – The Charging Chasseur*Francisco Goya – Portrait of the Duke of Wellington*John Martin – Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion-Births:*March 1 – Augustus Pugin, architect, illustrator, and designer...

    )
  • date unknown
    • Antonio Beato
      Antonio Beato
      Antonio Beato , also known as Antoine Beato, was a British and Italian photographer. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, views of the architecture and landscapes of Egypt and the other locations in the Mediterranean region...

      , photographer (b. c. 1825)
    • Thomas Dalziel
      Thomas Dalziel (engraver)
      Thomas Dalziel was an engraver known chiefly for his illustrations of the work of Charles Dickens.Thomas Dalziel produced many illustrations for books published by the family firm, the Brothers Dalziel...

      , engraver (b. 1823
      1823 in art
      -Works:*Gilbert Stuart - Portrait of John Adams *Ferdinand Waldmüller – Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven-Births:*March 1 – Charles Callahan Perkins, art critic and author...

      )
    • Charles Eastlake
      Charles Eastlake
      Charles Locke Eastlake was a British architect and furniture designer. Trained by the architect Philip Hardwick , he popularised William Morris's notions of decorative arts in the Arts and Crafts style, becoming one of the principal exponents of the revived Early English or Modern Gothic style...

      , architect and furniture designer (b. 1836
      1836 in art
      -Works:*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Diana Surprised By Actaeon*Antoine Wiertz – Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle-Births:*January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter...

      )
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