1919 in art

Events from the year 1919 in art.

Events

 * January–June – Paris Peace Conference at Versailles; Sir William Orpen attends as British official artist and Noël Dorville as a French journalist-illustrator.
 * April 15 – Publication in England of W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence, loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin.
 * April 25 – The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius.
 * December – The National War Paintings and Other Records exhibition staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
 * Seven and Five Society established in London.
 * Piet Mondrian, in Paris, begins painting his grid-based compositions (Neo-Plasticism).
 * The first bronze castings from Degas sculptures are made, posthumously.
 * Musée Rodin opens in Paris at the Hôtel Biron and Villa des Brillants, Meudon.
 * Chaïm Soutine first visits Céret in the Pyrenees where he begins a series of landscapes.
 * Les Champs Magnétiques, the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism, is written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.

Works



 * Norman G. Arnold – The Last Fight of Captain Ball, VC, DSO and 2 Bars, MC, 7th May 1917
 * Max Beckmann – The Night
 * David Bomberg – Sappers at Work: A Canadian Tunnelling Company, Hill 60, St Eloi
 * John Arnesby Brown – The Line of the Plough
 * Sydney Carline
 * Flying Above Kirkuk, Kurdistan
 * Flying Over the Desert at Sunset, Mesopotamia
 * The Trail of War
 * Harry Clarke – illustrations to Tales of Mystery & Imagination
 * Dorothy Coke – War Allotments in a London Suburb
 * Philip Connard
 * The Guns of HMS 'Caesar' 1919 – Off Constantinople, looking towards the Golden Horn
 * The Port of Constantinople – The Guns of HMS 'Caesar'
 * Leonard Crunelle – Statue of Richard J. Oglesby
 * Evelyn De Morgan – The Gilded Cage
 * Marcel Duchamp – L.H.O.O.Q.
 * Aleksandra Ekster – City at Night
 * Jacob Epstein – Sergeanat D. F. Hunter VC, 1/5 Highland Light Infantry (bronze bust)
 * Max Ernst
 * Aquis Submersus
 * Trophy, Hypertrophied (line-block printing and drawing)
 * Luke Fildes – Paul Fildes
 * Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – Portrait of Marcel Duchamp (sculpture of found objects)
 * Colin Gill
 * Evening, After a Push
 * Heavy Artillery
 * Observation of Fire
 * Eileen Gray – "Dragons" armchair
 * Elioth Gruner – Spring Frost
 * Hannah Höch – Schnitt mit dem Küchenmesser DADA durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands ("Cut with the Dada Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany"; collage)
 * Augustus John – Marchesa Casati
 * Henry Lamb – Irish troops in the Judean hills surprised by a Turkish bombardment
 * Fernand Léger
 * The City
 * The Railway Crossing
 * Ivor Lewis – Timothy Eaton statues
 * Wyndham Lewis – A Battery Shelled
 * David Low – Strange, I seem to hear a child weeping (political cartoon)
 * Hermon Atkins MacNeil – Statue of Ezra Cornell
 * Albert Marquet – La femme blonde (Femme blonde sur un fond de châle espagnol)
 * Henri Matisse – Les plumes blanches ("White Plumes")
 * Claude Monet – paintings in Water Lilies series
 * Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas
 * Water Lilies
 * Edvard Munch – Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu
 * Paul Nash – The Menin Road
 * C. R. W. Nevinson – The Harvest of Battle
 * Sir William Orpen
 * A Peace Conference at the Quai d'Orsay
 * The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919
 * Pablo Picasso
 * Le Tricorne
 * Still Life with Pitcher and Apples
 * John Singer Sargent – Gassed
 * Zinaida Serebriakova – House of Cards
 * Charles Sims – The Old German Front Line, Arras, 1916
 * Stanley Spencer – Travoys with Wounded Soldiers Arriving at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916
 * Edward Wadsworth – Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool

January to June

 * January 5 – Frederick Hammersley, American painter (d. 2009)
 * January 9 – Henrietta Berk, American painter (d. 1990)
 * January 19 – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998)
 * January 22 – John Russell, British American art critic (d. 2008)
 * January 24 – William Copley, American artist (d. 1996)
 * March 23 – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d. 2007)
 * April 9 – Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d. 2005)
 * April 24 – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992)
 * May 3 – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d. 2004)
 * May 9 – Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001)
 * May 27 – Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
 * June 2 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
 * June 7 – Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988)
 * June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020)
 * June 21 – Jean Joyet, French artist (d. 1994)

July to December

 * July 6 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999)
 * July 17 – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d. 2006)
 * July 18 – Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d. 1990)
 * July 31 – Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
 * September 8 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
 * September 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (d. 2003)
 * November 3 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995)
 * December 12 – Cliff Holden, English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020)
 * December 24 – Pierre Soulages, French "painter of black" (d. 2022)

Full date unknown

 * Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (d. 2003)

Deaths

 * January 22 – Carl Larsson, Swedish painter (b. 1853)
 * February 18 – Antonin Carlès, French sculptor (b. 1851)
 * February 27 – Robert Harris, Canadian painter (b. 1848)
 * March 24 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (b. 1870)
 * March 25 – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (b. 1881) (suicide)
 * May 2 – Evelyn De Morgan, English painter (born 1855)
 * May 13 – Helen Hyde, American etcher and engraver (b. 1868)
 * August 9 – Ralph Albert Blakelock, American painter (b. 1847)
 * November 18 – John Dibblee Crace, British interior decorator (b. 1838)
 * December 2 – Henry Clay Frick, American founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
 * December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
 * December 18 – James Coutts Michie, Scottish painter b. 1859)
 * Full date unknown – Edmund Elisha Case, American painter (b 1844)