1919 in art

Events

January–June – Paris Peace Conference at Versailles; Sir William Orpen attends as British official artist and Noël Dorville as a French journalist-illustrator.
April 15 – Publication in England of W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence, loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin.
April 25 – The Bauhaus architectural and design movement is founded in Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius.
December – The National War Paintings and Other Records exhibition staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Seven and Five Society established in London.
Piet Mondrian, in Paris, begins painting his grid-based compositions (Neo-Plasticism).
The first bronze castings from Degas sculptures are made, posthumously.
Musée Rodin opens in Paris at the Hôtel Biron and Villa des Brillants, Meudon.
Chaïm Soutine first visits Céret in the Pyrenees where he begins a series of landscapes.
Les Champs Magnétiques, the first book produced using the techniques of surrealist automatism, is written by André Breton and Philippe Soupault.

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January 5 – Frederick Hammersley, American painter (d. 2009)
January 9 – Henrietta Berk, American painter (d. 1990)
January 19 – Joan Brossa, Catalan poet, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist (d. 1998)
January 22 – John Russell, British American art critic (d. 2008)
January 24 – William Copley, American artist (d. 1996)
March 23 – Salvatore Scarpitta, American sculptor (d. 2007)
April 9 – Gordon Lambert, Irish art collector (d. 2005)
April 24 – César Manrique, Spanish artist and architect (d. 1992)
May 3 – John Cullen Murphy, American comics artist (d. 2004)
May 9 – Anne Yeats, Irish painter and stage designer (d. 2001)
May 27 – Emvin Cremona, Maltese artist (d. 1987)
June 2 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
June 7 – Mira Schendel, born Myrrha Dub, Swiss-Brazilian modernist artist and poet (d. 1988)
June 18 – Gordon A. Smith, Canadian artist and teacher (d. 2020)^[1]
June 21 – Jean Joyet, French artist (d. 1994)

July 6 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (d. 1999)
July 17 – Jean Leymarie, French art historian (d. 2006)
July 18 – Daniel du Janerand, French painter (d. 1990)
July 31 – Maurice Boitel, French painter (d. 2007)
September 8 – Maria Lassnig, Austrian painter (d. 2014)
September 29 – Vladimír Vašíček, Czech painter (d. 2003)
November 3 – Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic books author and artist (d. 1995)
December 12 – Cliff Holden, English painter, designer and silk-screen printer (d. 2020)
December 24 – Pierre Soulages, French "painter of black" (d. 2022)

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