1991 in art
Events from the year 1991 in art.
Events
- 14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum.
- 25 May – Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
- 9 July – The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott, is opened.
- September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen as the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen.
Publications
- The Prince of Wales - Watercolours.
- Eric Hebborn, ''Drawn to Trouble''
Exhibitions
- February 6 until May 6 - Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
- December 13 until February 2, 1992 - Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Dance
- May – First performance of ''Candoco Dance Company''
Awards
- John Moores Painting Prize - Andrzej Jackowski for "The Beekeeper's son"
- Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor
Works
- Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Aráuz
- "The Umbrellas" – Christo and Jeanne Claude
- Chain Reaction – Paul Conrad
- Field – Antony Gormley
- Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien Hirst
- The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hirst
- Capitalism – Larry Kirkland
- Guardians of the Gate – Miles Metzger
- PBS 1963-2000 - Nam Jun Paik
- Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View – Cornelia Parker
- Tompkins Square Crawl - William Pope.L
- Self – Marc Quinn
- Host Analog – Buster Simpson
- Cascade Charley – Alice Wingwall
- La Familia Pomare – Aline Amaru
Births
- Hannah Levy, American sculptor
- Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist
Deaths
January to June
- 3 January – Doris Zinkeisen, British theatrical designer and commercial artist.
- 11 January – Charles Mozley, British artist and art teacher
- 7 February – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist.
- 13 February – Arno Breker, German sculptor.
- 15 March – Vladimir Seleznev, Russian painter.
- 29 March – Guy Bourdin, French photographer.
- 10 June – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator.
July to December
- 16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
- 3 August – Boris Ugarov, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.
- 30 August – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor.
- 5 September
- *Alexander Pushnin, Russian painter and art educator.
- *Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist.
- 14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author.
- 18 September - Leland Bell, American painter.
- 24 September – Dr. Seuss, American illustrator.
- 8 October – David Budd, American abstract painter
- 27 October – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter.
- 7 November – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist.
- 11 November – Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Russian painter and theater artist.
- 18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist.
- 21 November – Joseph Delaney, American painter.
- 8 December - Bernice Abbott, American photographer.
- 9 December
- * Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist.
- * Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist.
- 12 December - Moshe Castel, Israeli painter.