1925 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - "Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch"

Works

Paintings

*George Adomeit - "Down to the Harbor"
*Pierre Bonnard - "Nude at the Toilet Table"
*Otto Dix - "Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber"
*Arthur Dove - "The Critic"
*Lyonel Feininger - "Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I" (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
*George Grosz - "Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse"
*Edward Hopper - "House by the Railroad"
*Wassily Kandinsky - "Yellow-Red-Blue"
*Tamara de Lempicka - "Autoportrait (Tamara in the Green Bugatti)"
*Veno Pilon - "Russian Woman"

culptures

*Wäinö Aaltonen - Statue of Paavo Nurmi
*Alberto Giacometti - "Torso"
*Frederick Roth - Statue of Balto, Central Park

Births

January to June

*1 January - Mario Merz, Italian artist (d.2003).
*17 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d.1996).
*12 February - Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d.1992).
*4 April - Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d.2007).
*29 April - Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer, and film director (d.2007).
*16 May - Hannes Hegen, cartoonist and illustrator.
*22 May - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d.1991).

July to December

*23 July - Burt Glinn, American photographer (d.2008).
*22 October - Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d.2008).
*28 October - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d.2006).
*30 November - Lenore Jaffee, painter.
*18 December - John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d.2007).

Full date unknown

*James Bingham, Northern Irish painter.
*Robert Colescott, painter.

Deaths

*January 8 - George Bellows (b. 1882)
*March 1 - Ramon Pichot, mentor of Salvador Dalí
*May 2 - Jan Stursa, sculptor (b. 1880)
*November 27 - Roger de la Fresnaye, painter (b. 1885)
*December 18 - Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1850)
*December 29 - Félix Vallotton, painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
* John Singer Sargent, painter (b. 1856)