1906 in art
Events from the year 1906 in art.
Events
- September-October – First group exhibition by Die Brücke, in Dresden.
- Gwen John begins modelling for Auguste Rodin.
- Hilma af Klint begins painting abstract art, including the first of her Primordial Chaos series.
- Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris.
- Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris.
- Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris.
- Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin.
- Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
- took place in Dresden from May 12 to October 31
Works
- Umberto Boccioni – Self-portrait
- Antoine Bourdelle – The Fruit
- Olga Boznańska – Portrait of a Lady in a White Hat
- Paul Cézanne – The Gardener Vallier
- Robert Delaunay – L'homme à la tulipe
- André Derain
- * Charing Cross Bridge, London
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- Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter
- *Equestrian statue of Charles Devens
- *Progress of the State
- J. W. Godward
- * Drusilla
- * Nerissa
- * The Tambourine Girl
- Wilhelm Hammershoi – Interior
- William Le Baron Jenney and Charles Mulligan – Illinois Memorial
- Robert Henri – El Matador
- Ishibashi Kazunori – Lady Reading Poetry
- Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson – The Hiker
- Peder Severin Krøyer – Midsummer Eve Bonfire on Skagen Beach
- Albert Marquet
- * The Beach at Fécamp
- * Fécamp
- Henri Matisse
- * Le bonheur de vivre
- * Self-Portrait in a Striped T-shirt
- * The Young Sailor I
- * The Young Sailor II
- Willard Metcalf – May Night
- Jean Metzinger
- * Coucher de soleil no. 1
- * Femme au Chapeau
- * La danse (Bacchante)
- * Portrait de Robert Delaunay
- Paula Modersohn-Becker – Self-portrait
- Claude Monet – Water Lilies
- Edvard Munch
- * Portrait of Friedrich Nietzsche
- * Self-portrait with a bottle
- Mikhail Nesterov
- * Portrait of E. P. Nesterov
- * Portrait of Olga Nesterova
- Maxfield Parrish – Old King Cole and his Fiddlers Three
- Pablo Picasso
- * Boy Leading a Horse
- * Head of a Young Woman
- * Portrait of Gertrude Stein
- * Self-Portrait with Palette
- Niko Pirosmani – Feast with Organ-Grinder Datiko Zemel
- Pierre Auguest Renoir
- Medardo Rosso – Ecce Puer
- John Singer Sargent – Self-portrait
- Zinaida Serebriakova – Country Girl
- Walter Sickert – La Hollandaise
- Franz von Stuck – Salome
- Albert Chevallier Tayler – Kent vs Lancashire at Canterbury
- Douglas Tilden – California Volunteers
- Ville Vallgren – ''Havis Amanda''
Births
January to June
- January 2 – Hans Mertens, German painter
- January 3 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish surrealist painter
- January 9 – Janko Brašić, Serbian painter
- January 13 – Burgoyne Diller, American abstract painter
- February 28 – Percy Shakespeare, English painter
- March 2 – Jessie Oonark, Canadian Inuk artist
- March 8 – Victor Hasselblad, Swedish inventor and photographer
- March 9 – David Smith, American abstract expressionist sculptor
- March 26 – Henri Cadiou, French realist painter and lithographer
- March 27 – Bernard Lefebvre, French photographer
- April 11 – Dale Messick, first woman syndicated comic strip artist in the United States
- April 14 – Elmyr de Hory, Hungarian-born painter and art forger
- April 21 – Lillian Browse, English art dealer and historian
- May 16 – Alfred Pellan, Canadian artist
- May 2 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-born American portrait photographer
- May 20 – Leon Polk Smith, American painter
- June 9 – James Boswell, New Zealand painter and draughtsman
July to December
- July 8 – Philip Johnson, American architect, art collector, curator
- August 12 – Tedd Pierce, American animated cartoon writer, animator and artist
- August 14 – Horst P. Horst, German American photographer
- August 20 – Heinz Henghes, German sculptor
- August 21 – Friz Freleng, American animator, cartoonist, director and producer
- September 5 – Ralston Crawford, Canadian-born American painter, lithographer and photographer
- October 18 – James Brooks, American painter and muralist
- October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter
- October 27 – Peter Blume, American painter
- November 26 – Krystyna Dąbrowska, Polish sculptor and painter
- December 10 – Padraig Marrinan, Irish painter
- December 14 – Maxwell Bates, Canadian architect and expressionist painter
- December 27 – Andreas Feininger, French-born American photographer
Deaths
- January 20 – Philippe Solari, French sculptor
- February – Charles-Auguste Lebourg, French sculptor
- February 14 – Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, Swedish sculptor
- March 5 – Hugh Ramsay, Australian painter
- March 17 – Thomas Dalziel, English engraver
- March 27 – Eugène Carrière, French Symbolist painter
- March 19 – Étienne Carjat, French portraitist
- March 29 – Slava Raskaj, Croatian watercolour painter
- April 5 – Wyke Bayliss, English painter
- April 14 – Walter Williams, English landscape painter
- April 19 – Daniel Huntington, American painter
- May – John Mulvany, Irish-born American painter
- June 20 – John Clayton Adams, English landscape artist
- August 21 – Eugen Felix, Austrian painter
- August 29 – Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter
- October 2 – Raja Ravi Varma, Indian painter
- October 22 – Paul Cézanne, French painter
- October 28 – Jean Benner, French artist
- November 5 – Frits Thaulow, Norwegian Impressionist painter
- December 11 – Axel Lindahl, Swedish landscape photographer
- November 20 – Charles Eastlake, English architect and furniture designer
- December 31 – Julia Goodman, English portrait painter date unknown
- * Antonio Beato, Italian-born photographer
- * Charles Edwin Fripp, English-born war artist
- * Maeda Genzō, Japanese photographer
- * William Linnell, British painter