1919 in art

List of years in Art

Events

* Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus

Works

*Evelyn De Morgan - "The Gilded Cage"
*Aleksandra Ekster - "City at Night"
*Max Ernst - "Aquis Submersus"
*Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven - "Portrait of Marcel Duchamp"
*Henri Matisse - "Les plumes blanches" ("White Plumes")

Births

January to June

*22 January - John Russell, British American art critic (d.2008).
*23 March - Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d.2007).
*9 April - Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d.2005).
*24 April - César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d.1992).
*3 May - John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d.2004).
*9 May - Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d.2001).
*21 June - Jean Joyet, French artist (d.1994).

July to December

*6 July - Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d.1999).
*17 July - Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d.2006).
*18 July - Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d.1990).
*31 July - Maurice Boitel, French painter (d.2007).
*29 September - Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (d.2003).
*3 November - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d.1995).
*11 November - Jef Friboulet, French painter and sculptor (d.2003).
*24 December - Pierre Soulages, "painter of black".

Full date unknown

*Avni Arbaş, Turkish artist (d.2003).
*William Copley, American artist (d.1996).

Deaths

*March 25 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck - sculptor (b. 1881)
*August 9 - Ralph Albert Blakelock, painter (b. 1847)
*November 18 - John Dibblee Crace, interior decorator (b. 1838)
*December 2 - Henry Clay Frick, founder of the Frick Collection (b. 1849)
*December 3 - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Impressionist painter (b. 1841)
* Carl Larsson, watercolour painter (b. 1853)
* Franz Metzner, sculptor (b. 1870)