1932 in art

1932 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.
*Courtauld Institute of Art is founded in London.

Works

Paintings

*Frank Brangwyn - "British Empire Panels"
*René Magritte - "The Universe Unmasked"
*Pablo Picasso - "Girl Before a Mirror" (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
*Walter Sickert - "Miss Earhart's Arrival" (Tate Gallery, London)

culptures

*Alberto Giacometti - "Woman with her Throat Cut"
*Henry Moore - "Half-figure"

Awards

*Archibald Prize: Ernest Buckmaster - "Sir William Irvine"

Births

January to June

*14 March - Norval Morrisseau, Aboriginal Canadian artist (d.2007).
*10 April - James Lee Byars, American artist (d.1997).
*19 April - Fernando Botero, painter and sculptor.
*4 May - Ivor Wood, English stop-motion animator (d.2004).
*5 June - Christy Brown, Irish author, painter and poet (d.1981).

July to December

*20 July - Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American video artist (d.2006).
*6 August - Howard Hodgkin, painter.
*19 August - Jacques Lob, French comic book creator (d.1990).
*4 October - Terence Conran, designer.
*22 October - Afewerk Tekle, painter and stained glass artist.
*29 October - R. B. Kitaj, American-born English artist (d.2007).
*7 December - Paul Caponigro, photographer.

Full date unknown

*Basil Blackshaw, Northern Irish painter.
*Walter Hopps, American museum director and curator (d.2005).

Deaths

*February 6 - Hermann Ottomar Herzog, painter
*February 11 - Robert Gibb, painter
* March - Elizabeth Taylor, traveller and artist
*March 5 - Jan Thorn-Prikker, painter and stained-glass artist
*March 11 - Dora Carrington, painter and designer
*March 21 - Georg Dehio, art historian (b. 1850)
*April 2 - Ella Gaunt Smith, doll-maker
*June 6 - Alois Dryák, architect and designer
*July 14 - Dimitrie Paciurea, sculptor
*July 19 - Louis Maurer, lithographer
*August 4 - Alfred Henry Maurer, painter
*September 11 - Hermann Ottomar Herzog, painter
*September 23 - Jules Chéret, painter and lithographer
*September 28 - Emil Orlik, etcher and lithographer (b. 1870)
*October 17 - Lucy Bacon, painter
*October 23 - Daniel Hernández, painter
*November 30 - Gari Melchers, painter
* Karl Blossfeldt, photographer and sculptor
* Samuel P. Dinsmoor, sculptor
* Boris Schatz, sculptor
* Gertrude Jekyll, garden designer (b. 1843)
* W. G. Collingwood, painter and author (b. 1854)
* Lucy Bacon, Impressionist painter (b. 1857)


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