1929 in art

List of years in Art

Events

*Diego Rivera marries Frida Kahlo.
*The Barcelona chair is designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
*Musashino Art University
*The Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City.

Awards

*Archibald Prize: John Longstaff - "W A Holman, KC"

Works

*Prudence Heward - "Girl on a Hill"
*Edward Hopper - "Chop Suey"
*Tamara de Lempicka - "The Musician"
*Francis Picabia - "Hera"
*Pablo Picasso - "Nude in an Armchair" (Musée Picasso, Paris)

Births

January to June

*2 January - Anton Lehmden, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
*26 January - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist.
*28 January - Claes Oldenburg, sculptor.
*24 February - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist (d.2005).
*31 March - Liz Claiborne, Belgian-born American fashion designer and entrepreneur (d.2007).
*31 March - Jay DeFeo, American visual artist (d.1989).
*5 April - Hugo Claus, Belgian novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (d.2008).
*23 May - Vladimír Preclík, Czech writer and sculptor (d.2008).
*31 May - Nicholas Krushenick, American pop art painter (d.1999).

July to December

*13 July - René Laloux, French animator and film director (d.2004).
*29 July - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, sociologist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer (d.2007).
*8 August - Josef Mikl, Austrian abstract painter (d.2008).
*4 September - Anne Dunn, painter.
*21 September - Edgar Valter, Estonian writer and illustrator of children's books (d.2006).

Full date unknown

*Poul Kjærholm, designer (d.1980).

Deaths

*March 1 - Vincenzo Gemito, sculptor (b. 1852)
*April 22 - Henry Lerolle, painter and arts patron (b. 1848)
*May 5 - Charles Grafly, sculptor (b. 1862)
*June 13 - Margaret Forrest, art collector and co-founder of the Wilgie Club and West Australian Society of Arts (b. 1844)
*October 1 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
* Heinrich Zille, photographer and illustrator (b. 1858)
* Robert Henri, painter, leader of the Ash Can School (b. 1865)
* Arthur Diehl, landscape painter (b. 1870)
* Adelaide Alsop Robineau, American painter and potter (b. 1865)