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Overview of the events of 1945 in art
Overview of the events of 1945 in art
Events from the year 1945 in art .
April 12 – President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt collapses while having a portrait painted by Elizabeth Shoumatoff at Warm Springs, Georgia , dying shortly afterwards.[1] April 15 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated. Among the British war artists (official and unofficial) who record it soon afterwards are Sgt. Eric Taylor , Leslie Cole , Doris Zinkeisen , Edgar Ainsworth (of Picture Post ) , Mervyn Peake and Mary Kessell .[2] April 28 – Professor Anthony Blunt is appointed to succeed Sir Kenneth Clark as Surveyor of the King's Pictures in the United Kingdom .May
July–December – Han van Meegeren paints his last forgery of a Dutch Golden Age painting , Jesus among the Doctors , before witnesses in Amsterdam to refute charges of having sold genuine Dutch cultural property to Nazis (for which he was arrested on May 29 ).[5]
October 25 – Jackson Pollock marries Lee Krasner .Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.New York businessman Henry Pearlman acquires Chaïm Soutine 's View of Céret , the foundation of his collection of modern art .Exhibitions [ edit ] January 20 – Susan Rothenberg , American painter[7] January 25 – Barbara Kruger , American photographer, graphic artist and sculptorJanuary 31 – Joseph Kosuth , American conceptual artist March 4 – Rose Finn-Kelcey , English performance and installation artist (d.2014 )March 8 – Anselm Kiefer , German sculptorJune 2 – Richard Long , English land artist June 14 – Jörg Immendorff , German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.2007 )June 30 – Sean Scully , Irish-born painterJuly 16 – Victor Sloan , Irish visual artistJuly 28 – Jim Davis , American cartoonist, creator of "Garfield"August 4 – Paul McCarthy , American sculptor and installation and video artistAugust 6 – Duggie Fields , English painter (d.2012 )August 9 – Posy Simmonds , English cartoonistAugust 18 – Brummbaer , German digital artistAugust 19 – Peter Reginato , American sculptorSeptember 27 – Jack Goldstein , Canadian -born American performance and conceptual artist turned painter (d.2003 )October 13 – Heinz Plank , German painter, draughtsman and graphic artistOctober 23 – Maggi Hambling , English painter and sculptorNovember 14 – David Nash , English sculptor and academicDecember 18 – Nasser Khalili , Iranian-British collector, art scholar, investor and philanthropistdate unknown
January 3 - René Gimpel , French art dealer (b. 1881 )January 7 – Alexander Stirling Calder , American sculptor (b. 1870 )February 7 – H. J. Ward , American illustrator (b. 1909 )February 21 – Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen , Danish sculptor (born 1863 )March 5 – Albert Richards , English war artist (b. 1919 ); killed on active service in the NetherlandsMarch 6 – Milena Pavlović-Barili , Serbian painter and poet (b. 1909 ); died in riding accident in the United StatesMarch 10 – Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale , English painter (b. 1872 )March 31 – Hando Ruus, Estonian painter (b. 1917 ); presumed executed as a prisoner of war in the Soviet UnionApril – Josef Čapek , Czech painter and writer (b. 1887 ); died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
April 22 – Käthe Kollwitz , German painter, lithographer and sculptor (b. 1867 )May 5 – René Lalique , French glass designer (b. 1860 )June 15 – Nikola Avramov , Bulgarian painter (b. 1897 )September 16 – David Young Cameron , Scottish painter and etcher (b. 1865 )October 24 – Franklin Carmichael , Canadian painter (b. 1890 )October 31 – Ignacio Zuloaga , Basque painter (b. 1870 )November 23 – Ljubomir Ivanović , Serbian painter (b. 1882 )November – Thomas Hennell , English painter (b. 1903 ); presumed killed on active service in Indonesia
December 20 – Ong Schan Tchow , Chinese artist (b. 1900 ); died in Malaysiadate unknown
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