Art competitions at the 1924 Summer Olympics

Art competitions were held as part of the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Medals were awarded in five categories (architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture), for works inspired by sport-related themes.^[1]

Art competitions were part of the Olympic program from 1912 to 1948, but were discontinued due to concerns about amateurism and professionalism. Since 1952, a non-competitive art and cultural festival has been associated with each Games.^[2]

Medal summary

Category	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Architecture	none awarded	Alfréd Hajós and Dezső Lauber (HUN) Plan for a stadium	Julien Médecin (MON) Stadium for Monte Carlo
Literature	Géo-Charles (FRA) "Jeux Olympiques"	Josef Petersen (DEN) "Euryale"	Charles Gonnet (FRA) "Vers le Dieu d'Olympie"
		Margaret Stuart (GBR) "Sword Songs"	Oliver Gogarty (IRL) "Ode to the Tailteann Games"
Music	none awarded	none awarded	none awarded
Painting	Jean Jacoby (LUX) "Corner", "Départ", and "Rugby"	Jack Butler Yeats (IRL) "The Liffey Swim"	Johan van Hell (NED) "Patineurs"
Sculpture	Konstantinos Dimitriadis (GRE) "Discobole Finlandais"	Frantz Heldenstein (LUX) "Vers l'olympiade"	Jean René Gauguin (DEN) Boxer
			Claude-Léon Mascaux (FRA) Sports medals

Medal table

At the time, medals were awarded to these artists, but art competitions are no longer regarded as official Olympic events by the International Olympic Committee. These events do not appear in the IOC medal database,^[3] and these totals are not included in the IOC's medal table for the 1924 Games.^[4]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Luxembourg (LUX)	1	1	0	2
2	France (FRA)	1	0	2	3
3	Greece (GRE)	1	0	0	1
4	Denmark (DEN)	0	1	1	2
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	1	2
6	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	0	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	0	1
8	Monaco (MON)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		3	5	6	14

Events summary

Architecture

The following architects took part:^[5]

Rank	Name	Country
1	not awarded
2	Alfréd Hajós, Dezső Lauber	Hungary
3	Julien Médécin	Monaco
AC	Sonja Carstensen	Denmark
AC	Dolf Broese van Groenou, Samuel de Clercq	Netherlands
AC	Henri Guerbois, Maurice Dambrun	France
AC	Oscar Gundlach-Pedersen	Denmark
AC	Jens Christian Kofoed	Denmark
AC	Nico Lansdorp	Netherlands
AC	Amedeo Lavini	Italy
AC	Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen	Denmark
AC	Kay Schrøder	Denmark
AC	Herman van der Kloot Meijburg	Netherlands
AC	Edmond Virieux, Léo Rocco	Switzerland
AC	Marinus Granpré Molière, Jos Klijnen, Pieter Verhagen	Netherlands
AC	Hendrik Happé	Netherlands

Literature

The following writers took part:^[6]

Rank Name Country 1 Géo-Charles  France 2 Dorothy Margaret Stuart  Great Britain 2 Josef Petersen  Denmark 3 Charles Anthoine Gonnet  France 3 Oliver St. John Gogarty  Ireland AC Brinsley MacNamara  Ireland AC Miami Belle Louis  United States AC Patrick Chalmers  Great Britain AC Robert Graves  Great Britain AC Albert Laisant  France AC T. C. Murray  Ireland

Rank Name Country AC Smart  Switzerland AC Klaus Suomela  Finland AC A. Christory  France AC A. Godinat  France AC A. Schmitt  Switzerland AC Charles Williams  Great Britain AC France Darget Savarit  France AC Gonzague de Reynold  Switzerland AC Franz Servais  Luxembourg AC George Bamber  Great Britain AC H. Vincent  France

Rank Name Country AC Henry de Montherlant  France AC I. Couturier  United States AC Jacques Gazeau  France AC J. Ryan  Ireland AC L. Alvar da Silva  Brazil AC L. A. Fernández  Uruguay AC Lionel Montal  France AC Marcel Berger  France AC Peshoton Dubash  Great Britain AC Suzanne Ardoin  France

Music

The following composers took part:^[7]

Rank	Name	Country
1	not awarded
2	not awarded
3	not awarded
AC	Gerry	France
AC	George Bamber	Great Britain
AC	Henry Masquilier Thiriez	France
AC	J. Richard	France
AC	Ruby Reynolds-Lewis	Australia
AC	Marius Ulfrstad	Norway
AC	Suzanne Daneau	Belgium
AC	Jaap Kool	Netherlands

Painting

The following painters took part:^[8]

Rank Name Country 1 Jean Jacoby  Luxembourg 2 Jack Yeats  Ireland 3 Johan van Hell  Netherlands AC Therese Elsen  Belgium AC Médard Tytgat  Belgium AC Johan Vilhelm Andersen  Denmark AC Christian Asmussen  Denmark AC Folmer Bonnén  Denmark AC Sigurd Kielland Brandt  Denmark AC Mogens Lorentzen  Denmark AC Aase Lundsteen  Denmark AC Knud Merrild  Denmark AC Sigurd Swane  Denmark AC Enayat Allah Ibrahim  Egypt AC Georges Achille-Fould  France AC R. G. P. Baron  France AC René Besserve  France AC Simone Boutarel  France AC Maurice Busset  France AC Marguerite Carpentier  France AC Géo Cim  France AC Madeleine Cotty  France

Rank Name Country AC Paul de Plument de Bailhac  France AC Léon Auguste Derruau  France AC Georges Rasetti  France AC R. M. A. Guimbert  France AC Jean Guinard  France AC Pauline Lacroix  France AC Louise Amélie Landré  France AC Jacques Henri Lartigue  France AC Paul Lorrette  France AC Yvonne Meley  France AC André Planson  France AC Henri Jean Pontoy  France AC René Roussel  France AC Hélène Schwab  France AC Lucien Seevagen  France AC Georges Villa  France AC Pierre Segond-Weber  France AC George Bamber  Great Britain AC Charles Simpson  Great Britain AC Seán Keating  Ireland AC John Lavery  Ireland AC Jack Yeats  Ireland

Rank Name Country AC Albert Simon  Luxembourg AC Bas Veth  Netherlands AC Jos Croin  Netherlands AC Freek Engel  Netherlands AC Ed Gerdes  Netherlands AC Isaac Israëls  Netherlands AC Martin Monnickendam  Netherlands AC Max Nauta  Netherlands AC Egbert Schaap  Netherlands AC Willy Sluiter  Netherlands AC Cornelis Vreedenburgh  Netherlands AC Piet van der Hem  Netherlands AC Willem van Hasselt  Netherlands AC Cornelis van Steenwijk  Netherlands AC Bernard van Vlijmen  Netherlands AC Hendrik Jan Wolter  Netherlands AC Aleksandr Yakovlev Russia AC Mariya Princess Nizharadze Russia AC Oscar Früh  Switzerland AC Albert Welti  Switzerland AC R. A. M. Guilmart  France

Sculpture

The following sculptors took part:^[9]

Rank Name Country 1 Konstantinos Dimitriadis  Greece 2 Frantz Heldenstein  Luxembourg 3 Claude-Léon Mascaux  France 3 Jean René Gauguin  Denmark AC Victor Demanet  Belgium AC Johannes Kragh  Denmark AC José Clará  Spain AC Lucien Alliot  France AC René Andrei  France AC Raoul Bénard  France AC Marcel Bouraine  France AC Eugène Bourgoin  France AC Marguerite Carpentier  France AC Félix Charpentier  France AC François Cogné  France AC Alfred Cros  France AC Albert David  France AC Louis Delapchier  France AC Joé Descomps-Cormier  France AC Édouard Drouot  France AC Georges Engrand  France AC Édouard Fraisse  France AC Berthe Girardet  France

Rank Name Country AC Henri Gréber  France AC Maurice Guiraud-Rivière  France AC Georges Halbout  France AC Elie Hervier, Pierre-Amédée Plasait  France AC Raoul Lamourdedieu, Camille Ravot  France AC Pierre Richard-Willm  France AC Marie Rosenfeld  France AC Henri Raphaël Moncassin  France AC Raoul Josset  France AC Raymond Rivoire  France AC Paul Landowski  France AC Ernesta Robert-Mérignac  France AC Paul Richer  France AC Alexandre Maspoli  France AC Louis Tauzin  France AC Lucien Marinier  France AC Jean Verschneider  France AC Francisque Michot  France AC Camille Ravot  France AC Katherine Maltwood  Great Britain AC Oliver Sheppard  Ireland AC Antonietta Paoli Pogliani  Italy AC Vincenzo Gemito  Italy

Rank Name Country AC Amleto Cataldi  Italy AC Anders Svor  Norway AC Sofus Madsen  Norway AC Fanie Eloff  South Africa AC Constant Vez  Switzerland AC Oscar Waldmann  Switzerland AC Georg Eichhorn  Switzerland AC Hans Frei  Switzerland AC Marguerite Anne de Blonay  Switzerland AC Julius Schwyzer  Switzerland AC Frédéric Schmied  Switzerland AC Jean Dušek  Czechoslovakia AC Jakub Obrovský  Czechoslovakia AC Sergey Yuryevich Russia AC Ivan Zajec  Yugoslavia AC F. Kroly  Yugoslavia AC Frane Cota  Yugoslavia AC Henri Bouchard  France AC Paul Roger-Bloche  France AC Juraj Škarpa  Yugoslavia AC Henri Dropsy  France

References

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