1944 in art explained
Events from the year 1944 in art.
Events
Awards
Exhibitions
Works
Births
- 9 January – Ian Hornak, American painter and draughtsman (d. 2002).
- 10 January – Jeff Jones, American illustrator.
- 12 February - Jane Livingston, American curator.
- 4 March – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist.
- 29 March – Abbas, Iranian-born documentary photographer (d. 2018).
- 4 April – Phyllida Barlow, English sculptor (d. 2023).
- 8 May – David Vaughan, English psychedelic artist and muralist (d. 2003).
- 24 July – Maya Wildevuur, Dutch painter (d. 2023).
- 4 August – Allan McCollum, American conceptual artist, all media.
- 15 August – Gianfranco Ferré, Italian fashion designer (d. 2007).
- 20 August – Brian Barnes, English mural artist.
- 27 August – Catherine Leroy, French-born photographer (d. 2006).
- 1 September – Louis Delsarte, American painter (d. 2020).
- 23 November – Peter Lindbergh, born Peter Brodbeck, Polish-born fashion photographer (d. 2019).
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 23 – Edvard Munch, Norwegian expressionist painter (b. 1863)
- February 1 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch abstract painter (b. 1872)
- February 26 – Lucienne Heuvelmans, French sculptor (b. 1885?)
- April 25 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (b. 1880)
- July 18 – Rex Whistler, English painter (killed in action) (b. 1905)
- August 2 – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish surrealist painter (in Auschwitz concentration camp) (b. 1904)
- August 18 – Hans Mertens, German painter (b. 1906)
- September 3 – William Logsdail, English landscape, portrait and genre painter (b. 1859)
- September 27
- October 14 – Marko Murat, Serbian painter (b. 1864)
- October 21 – Hilma af Klint, Swedish abstract painter and mystic (b. 1862)
- November 22 – Sir George Clausen, English artist (b. 1852)
- December 10 – Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (b. 1871)
- December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian abstract painter (b. 1866)
- December 24 – Alfred Drury, English sculptor (b. 1856)
- Undated – Esther Kenworthy Waterhouse, English flower painter (b. 1857)
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Prose, Francine. Francine Prose
. Francine Prose. Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new. registration. New Haven. Yale University Press. 2015. 978-0-300-20348-6. 140.
- News: Salvador Dali painting Mad Tristan not seen since 1944 The Star. The Toronto Star. 5 November 2012.
- Web site: Salvador Dali's "Mad Tristan" leaves the noumenal and returns to the world of phenomenon.