1933 in art

"This article is part of List of years in Art"

Events

*Closure of the Bauhaus.
*Black Mountain College founded by John Andrew Rice.
*The mural, "Man at the Crossroads", by Diego Rivera, is removed from the Rockefeller Center in New York City because it contained a portrait of Lenin.
*Käthe Kollwitz is forced by the Nazi Party to resign from the faculty of the Academy of Arts.
*Ben Nicholson marries Barbara Hepworth.

Works

*"Operarios" by Tarsila do Amaral
*"Horse" by John Skeaping - a sculpture carved from mahogany and pynkado, originally in Whipsnade Zoo and now in the Tate Gallery.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Charles Wheeler - "Ambrose Pratt"

Births

January to June

*8 February - Richard Allen (abstract artist) Minimalist, Op, Pop, Geometric painter and printmaker.
*18 February - Yoko Ono, sculptor, filmmaker, installation artist and musician.
*1 April - Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist (d.1996).
*11 June - Harald Szeemann, Swiss curator and art historian (d.2005).
*12 June - Eddie Adams, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer (d.2004).

July to December

*8 July - Jeff Nuttall, English poet, publisher, actor, painter and sculptor (d.2004).
*18 July - Cécile Guillame, first woman who engraved French postal stamps (d.2004).
*18 August - Michael Baxandall, Welsh art historian (d.2008).
*29 August - Sorel Etrog, sculptor.
*8 November - Lothar Fischer, German sculptor (d.2004).
*18 November - Bruce Conner, American artist in film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage and photography (d.2008).
*29 November - James Rosenquist, painter and muralist.
*14 December - Bapu, cartoonist and painter.

Full date unknown

*Richard Allen, American Minimalist, Abstract, Systems, Fundamental and Geometric painter (d.1999).
*Ansgar Elde, Swedish ceramic artist (d.2000).
*Sam Gilliam, painter.
*John Stuart Ingle, watercolorist.
*Alison Knowles, Fluxus performance artist, sound artist, papermaker and printmaker.
*Charlotte Moorman, Fluxus performance artist (d.1991).
*Mark di Suvero, sculptor.

Deaths

*February 28 - Lilla Cabot Perry, Impressionist painter (b. 1848)
*June 14 - Hans Prinzhorn, art historian
*August 8 - Adolf Loos, Modernist architect
*October 26 - José Malhoa, painter
*October 29 - George Benjamin Luks, portrait painter
*November 14 - Thomas Hayton Mawson, garden designer
* Margaret MacDonald, designer
* Harold Peto, architect and garden designer
* François Pompon, sculptor
* Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, furniture designer
* W. G. R. Sprague, theatre designer
* Elizabeth Thompson, British painter (b. 1846)
* James E. Kelly, sculptor and illustrator (b. 1855)
* Charles Harold Davis, painter (b. 1856)
* Émile André, architect and designer (b. 1871)