1908 in art explained
Events from the year 1908 in art.
Events
Works
Births
January to June
- January 18 – Humberto Rosa, painter (d. 1982)
- February 12 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1948)
- February 26 – Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (d. 1980).
- February 28 – William Coldstream, English realist painter (d. 1987).
- February 29 – Balthus, French modern artist (d. 2001)
- March 13
- March 19 – George Rodger, English photographer (d. 1995)
- March 23 – Cecil Collins, English painter and printmaker (d. 1989)
- May 9 – Mary Scheier, American sculptor and academic (d. 2007)
- May 16 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (d. 1960)
- June 24 – Helen Lundeberg, painter (d. 1999)
July to December
- July 6 – Sam Vanni, Finnish painter (d. 1992)
- July 8 – Kaii Higashiyama, Japanese painter and writer (d. 1999)
- July 9 – Minor White, American photographer (d. 1976).
- July 22 – Claire Falkenstein, American sculptor and painter (d. 1997).
- August 22 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004).
- August 28
- August 30 – Leonor Fini, Argentine-born surrealist painter (d. 1996).
- September 6 – Korczak Ziolkowski, Polish American sculptor (d. 1982).
- September 14 – Peter Watson, English arts benefactor (k. 1956)
- October 1 – Nicholas Marsicano, American painter (d. 1991).
- October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (d. 2003).
- October 27 – Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1984).
- November 4 – EQ Nicholson, born Elsie Q. Myers, English textile designer and painter (d. 1992).
- November 19 – Gisèle Freund, born Gisela Freund, German-born photographer (d. 2000).
- December 3 – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (d. 1998).[5]
- December 23 – Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d. 2002).
Full date unknown
Deaths
- January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832)[6]
- January 13 – Hashimoto Gahō, Japanese painter of the Kanō school (b. 1835)
- January 19 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1821)
- January 28 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (b. 1860)
- April 13 – Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist (b. 1824)
- June 1 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
- July 17 - Joseph Henderson, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1832)
- August 30 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1825)
- November 3 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (born 1861)[7]
- November 4 – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (b. 1883)
- November 24 – Charles Henry Turner, American watercolourist and oil painter (b. 1848)
- December 5 – Ernest Hébert, French painter (b. 1817)
- December 27 – František Bohumír Zvěřina, Czech painter (b. 1835)
- date unknown
Notes and References
- News: Down the decades: Whitworth Art Gallery and Park. Manchester Evening News. 2016-11-27.
- Book: Danchev, Alex. Georges Braques: A Life. Arcade Publishing. 2005. 9780141905006.
- Book: Buckle, Richard. Richard Buckle. Jacob Epstein, Sculptor. London. Faber. 1963. 1907–08: Strand Statues. 24–37.
- Book: Bullock, Alan. Alan Bullock. . London. Penguin Books. 1962. 1952. 978-0-14-013564-0. 30–31.
- Web site: Obituary: Victor Pasmore. https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-victor-pasmore-1141076.html . 2022-05-01 . subscription . live. The Independent. 12 January 2018. 26 January 1998.
- Book: Lotze, Dieter . Wilhelm Busch . Twayne Publishers . Boston . 1979 . 9780805763652 . 21.
- The Building News and Engineering Journal. Obituary. 95. Office for Publication and Advertisements. 6 November 1908. 676.