Events from the year 1912 in art .
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Cover of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac
January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – 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 (his studio). One of the drawings in burned in court. He paints while imprisoned.[1] [2]
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 .[3]
Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".
Albert Gleizes , 1912, l'Homme au Balcon, Man on a Balcony (Portrait of Dr. Théo Morinaud) , oil on canvas, 195.6 x 114.9 cm (77 x 45 1/4 in.), Philadelphia Museum of Art. Completed the same year that the painter co-authors the book Du "Cubisme" with Jean Metzinger . Exhibited at Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1912, Armory show , New York, Chicago, Boston, 1913
Giacomo Balla – Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash [4]
Vanessa Bell – Three portraits of her sister Virginia Woolf [5]
George Bellows – Men of the Docks [6]
David Bomberg – Vision of Ezekiel
Pierre Bonnard – St Tropez, Pier
Richard E. Brooks – Statue of John McGraw (bronze sculpture, Seattle)
Paul Émile Chabas – September Morn (Metropolitan Museum of Art )
Jerome Connor – Bishop John Carroll (bronze sculpture, Washington, D.C.)[7]
John Currie – Some Later Primitives and Madame Tisceron
Roger de La Fresnaye – Mon Ami, Jean Cocteau [8]
Robert Delaunay – Simultaneous Windows on the City [9]
Marcel Duchamp – Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Kenny Edson - The Romance of Pocahontas
Lydia Field Emmet – Self Portrait
Jacob Epstein – Tomb of Oscar Wilde (Père Lachaise Cemetery , Paris )
E. Phillips Fox – Nasturtiums
Roger Fry
Laura Gilpin – Basket of Peaches (color photograph)
Albert Gleizes
J. W. Godward
Juan Gris – Verre et Bouteilles
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Boris Kustodiev
Jacques Henri Lartigue – Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. (photograph)[10]
Fernand Léger
Wyndham Lewis – Smiling Woman Ascending a Stair
J. B. Manson – Approximate date
Franz Marc
Henri Matisse
Jean Metzinger
Amedeo Modigliani – Tête (sculpture)
Piet Mondrian – Gray Tree
Mikhail Nesterov – Crucifixion
Emil Nolde – The Prophet (woodcut)
William Orpen – Portrait of Gardenia St. George With Riding Crop
Pablo Picasso
Charles A. Platt – Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain (New York City)
J. Massey Rhind – George Washington (bronze sculpture, Newark)
Franz Roubaud – Battle of Borodino Panorama
Egon Schiele
Kathleen Scott – Charles Stewart Rolls (bronze sculpture, Dover)
T. F. Simon – Second Hand Booksellers, Spring
Max Slevogt – The Singer Francisco D'Andrade as Don Giovanni in Mozart's Opera ("The Red d'Andrade")
Stanley Spencer – The Nativity
James Wehn – Statue of Chief Seattle (copper sculpture, Seattle)
Christopher Whall and Mabel Esplin – Lady chapel windows, St John the Divine, Richmond , London
January to June
January 7 – Charles Addams , American cartoonist (d.1988 )
January 28 – Jackson Pollock , American painter (d.1956 )
January 29 – Constantin Kluge , Russian and French painter (d.2003 )
February 7 – Russell Drysdale , Australian artist (d.1981 )
March 4 – Afro Basaldella , Italian painter (d.1976 )
March 22 – Agnes Martin , Canadian -US painter (d.2004 )
April 14 – Robert Doisneau , French photographer (d.1994 )
April 21 – Eve Arnold , née Cohen, American photographer (d.2012 )
May 8 – John Deakin , English photographer (d.1972 )
June 4 – Robert Jacobsen , Danish sculptor and painter (d.1993 )
June 8 – Harry Holtzman , American artist (died 1987 )
June 11 – William Baziotes , American painter (d.1963 )
July to December
July 10 – Isabel Nicholas , English painter and model (d.1992 )[12]
August 1 – Rachel Baes , Belgian painter (d.1983 )
August 23 – Keith Vaughan , English painter (d.1977 )
August 29 – Wolfgang Suschitzky , Austrian-born documentary photographer and cinematographer (d.2016 )
September 4
September 5
September 23 – Tony Smith , US sculptor , visual artist and theorist on art (d.1980 )
October 31 – Ollie Johnston , US animator (d.2008 )
November 3 – Ida Kohlmeyer , US painter and sculptor (d.1997 )
November 28 – Morris Louis , US painter (d.1962 )
December 27 – Conroy Maddox , English surrealist painter, collagist, writer and lecturer (d.2005 )
February 14 – Mathurin Moreau , French sculptor (born 1822 )
March 16 – Elizabeth Forbes , Canadian painter of the Newlyn School (born 1859 ; cancer)[13]
March 29 – John Gerrard Keulemans , Dutch bird illustrator (born 1842 )
March 31 – Robert Loftin Newman , American painter and stained-glass designer (born 1827 )
April 15 – Francis Davis Millet , American painter, sculptor and writer (born 1846) (died on board the Titanic )
May 2 – Homer Davenport , American cartoonist (born 1867 )
May 20 – Louis Hasselriis , Danish sculptor known for public monuments (born 1844 )
June 25 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema , Dutch painter (born 1836 )
June 30 – John Ford Paterson , Scottish–Australian artist, president of the Victorian Artists Society (born 1851 )
July 16 – Thomas Fitzpatrick , Irish cartoonist (born 1860 )
August 20 – Walter Goodman , English painter, illustrator and author (born 1838 )
September 15 – John Leighton , English book illustrator (born 1822 )
October 11 – Nils Hansteen , Norwegian painter (born 1855 )
November 1 – John Emms , English painter (born 1844)
November 22 – Otto Lessing , German historicist sculptor (born 1846 )
December 1 – John Moyr Smith , Scottish-born ceramic artist (born 1839 )
December 8 – Tony Robert-Fleury , French painter (born 1865 )
December 23 – Édouard Detaille , French painter
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Néret, Gilles (1993). F. Léger . New York: BDD Illustrated Books. p. 47. ISBN 0-7924-5848-6