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1925 in art

List of years in art (table)

The year 1925 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

  • February 23Stanley Spencer marries Hilda Carline.
  • March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to Dessau.
  • April–October – In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style. Le Corbusier's Pavillon d'Esprit Nouveau is so disliked by the organizers that they erect a six-meter-high fence around it.
  • May 9Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
  • September 17 – Frida Kahlo is seriously and permanently injured when a bus in which she is riding collides with a trolleycar in Mexico City; she takes up painting while immobilized following the accident.
  • Autumn – Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe move to an upper-floor apartment in the Shelton Towers Hotel, New York City from where they begin to photograph and paint the views. This year also, Stieglitz begins taking his Equivalents series of abstract cloud photographs.
  • November 13/14 (midnight) – First Surrealist exhibition opens at the Galerie Pierre, Paris.
  • Franz Roh's Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei ("After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting") is published, introducing the term magic realism into cultural criticism.

Awards

Works

Paintings

Sculptures

Aaltonen works on the statue of Nurmi

Births

Deaths

See also

  • 1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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