1912 in art

Events from the year 1912 in art.

Events

January 5 – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.
April – Egon Schiele is arrested in Neulengbach for seducing and abducting a minor; these charges are dropped but he is imprisoned for 21 days for exhibiting erotic drawings in a place accessible to children. One of the drawings in burned in court. He paints while imprisoned.
May – The Blue Rider Almanac published in Munich, containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and Vasilly Kandinsky's experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound.
June 26 – Austrian writer Frida Strindberg opens The Cave of the Golden Calf, a London nightclub decorated by Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Charles Ginner and Jacob Epstein with its motif by Eric Gill; it becomes a haunt of Futurists.
July – At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, American marksman, horse breeder and artist Walter W. Winans wins a silver medal for shooting and a gold in the sculpture category of the art competitions for his bronze statuette An American Trotter.
December 24 – William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
In Paris, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger publish the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", followed by André Salmon's La jeune peinture française including Histoire anecdotique du cubisme.
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire introduces the term 'Orphism', in an address at the Salon de la Section d'Or, referring initially to the 'pure painting' of František Kupka.
Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".

Exhibitions

March – Exhibition of Italian Futurism transfers from Paris to the Sackville Gallery in London, organised by Robert René Meyer-Sée.
May 25–September 30 – Third International Art Exhibition organized by Sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler, in Cologne, featuring works by Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and Edvard Munch.
Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition organized by Roger Fry in London.
René Lalique and Maurice Marinot independently stage the first exhibitions of their glasswares.

Works

Giacomo Balla
* Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash
* Girl Running on a Balcony
* The Hand of the Violinist
Vanessa Bell – Portrait of Virginia Woolf
George Bellows – Men of the Docks
David Bomberg – Vision of Ezekiel
Pierre Bonnard – St Tropez, Pier
Georges Braque
* Fruit Dish and Glass
* The Guitar
Richard E. Brooks – Statue of John McGraw
Paul Émile Chabas – September Morn
Jerome Connor – Bishop John Carroll
John Currie – Some Later Primitives and Madame Tisceron
Roger de La Fresnaye – Mon Ami, Jean Cocteau
Robert Delaunay – Windows
Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Rogelio de Egusquiza – Tristan and Isolde (Life)
Lydia Field Emmet – Self Portrait
Jacob Epstein – Tomb of Oscar Wilde
E. Phillips Fox – Nasturtiums
Roger Fry
* Portrait of Edith Sitwell
* River with Poplars
Laura Gilpin – '
Albert Gleizes
* The Bathers
* Football Players
* Harvest Threshing
* Man on a Balcony
* Passy, Bridges of Paris
J. W. Godward
* Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
* By The Wayside
* An Offering To Venus
* The Peacock Fan
Juan Gris – Verre et Bouteilles
Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with an Easel, Bredgade 25
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
* Nollendorfplatz
* Das Urteil des Paris
* Vier Holzplastiken
Gustav Klimt – Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
František Kupka – The Cathedral (Katedrála)
Boris Kustodiev
* Easter Greetings
* Self-portrait
Fernand Léger
* La Fumée
* Woman in Blue
Wyndham Lewis – Smiling Woman Ascending a Stair
Kazimir Malevich – The Knifegrinder
J. B. Manson – Approximate date
* Self-portrait
* Still Life: Tulips in a Blue Jug
Franz Marc
* Atonement
* Deer in the Woods II
* The Dream
* Horses Resting
* In the Rain
* Legend of the Animals
* The Little Monkey
* Little Blue Horse
* Red Bull
* Sleeping Shepherdess
* Tiger
Henri Matisse
* Arab Coffeehouse
* The Conversation
* Goldfish
* The Little Mulatta
* Palm Tree Leaf Tangier
* Paysage marocain (Acanthes)
* Seated Riffian
* View over the Bay of Tangier
* Window at Tangier
* Zorah on the Terrace
Jean Metzinger
* The Blue Bird
* Dancer in a café
* Man with a Pipe
* Nature morte
* La Plume Jaune I and II
* Au Vélodrome
* Woman with a horse
* Woman with a Fan
Amedeo Modigliani – Tête
Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree
Mikhail Nesterov – Crucifixion
Emil Nolde
* The Life of Christ
* The Prophet
William Orpen – Portrait of Gardenia St. George With Riding Crop
Francis Picabia
* The Procession, Seville
* The Spring
Pablo Picasso
* Bottle, Glass, Fork
* '
* Ma Jolie
* Still Life with Chair Caning
* Violon et raisins
* Violon, verre, pipe et encrier
Charles A. Platt – Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain
J. Massey Rhind – George Washington
Franz Roubaud – Battle of Borodino Panorama
Egon Schiele
* Portrait of Wally
* Self-portrait with Chinese lantern fruits
Kathleen Scott – Charles Stewart Rolls
T. F. Simon – Second Hand Booksellers, Spring
Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera
Stanley Spencer –
James Wehn – Statue of Chief Seattle
Christopher Whall and Mabel Esplin – Lady chapel windows, St John the Divine, Richmond, London
William Barnes Wollen – ''The Battle of Albuera''

Births

January to June

January 7 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist
January 28 – Jackson Pollock, American painter
January 29 – Constantin Kluge, Russian and French painter
February 7 – Russell Drysdale, Australian artist
March 4 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter
March 22 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-US painter
April 14 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer
April 21 – Eve Arnold, née Cohen, American photographer
May 8 – John Deakin, English photographer
June 4 – Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and painter
June 8 – Harry Holtzman, American artist
June 11 – William Baziotes, American painter

July to December

July 10 – Isabel Nicholas, English painter and model
August 1 – Rachel Baes, Belgian painter
August 23 – Keith Vaughan, English painter
August 29 – Wolfgang Suschitzky, Austrian-born documentary photographer and cinematographer
September 4
* Syd Hoff, US children's book author and cartoonist
* Alexander Liberman, Russian-born painter and sculptor
September 5
* Kristina Söderbaum, Swedish-German film actress, producer and photographer
* Frank Thomas, US animator
September 23 – Tony Smith, US sculptor, visual artist and theorist on art
October 31 – Ollie Johnston, US animator
November 3 – Ida Kohlmeyer, US painter and sculptor
November 28 – Morris Louis, US painter
December 27 – Conroy Maddox, English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer

Deaths

January 18 – Hermann Kern, Austrian painter
February 3 – Joan Brull, Catalan Symbolist painter
February 14 – Mathurin Moreau, French sculptor
March 16 – Elizabeth Forbes, Canadian painter of the Newlyn School
March 29 – John Gerrard Keulemans, Dutch bird illustrator
March 31 – Robert Loftin Newman, American painter and stained-glass designer
April 15 – Francis Davis Millet, American painter, sculptor and writer
May 2 – Homer Davenport, American cartoonist
May 20 – Louis Hasselriis, Danish sculptor known for public monuments
June 25 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch painter
June 30 – John Ford Paterson, Scottish–Australian artist, president of the Victorian Artists Society
July 16 – Thomas Fitzpatrick, Irish cartoonist
August 20 – Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator and author
September 2 – Henry Allan, Irish painter
September 15 – John Leighton, English book illustrator
October 11 – Nils Hansteen, Norwegian painter
November 1 – John Emms, English painter
November 22 – Otto Lessing, German historicist sculptor
December 1 – John Moyr Smith, Scottish-born ceramic artist
December 8 – Tony Robert-Fleury, French painter
December 23 – Édouard Detaille, French painterdate unknown
* Tadeusz Żukotyński, Polish count, professor, and painter