1925 in art

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Events

• 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.
• Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
• Stanley Spencer marries Hilda Carline.
• In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts from April through October; 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.
• First Surrealist exhibition at the Galerie Pierre, Paris.
• The Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau.
• Alfred Stieglitz begins taking his Equivalents series of abstract cloud photographs.
• 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

• Archibald Prize: John Longstaff – Portrait of Maurice Moscovitch

Works

C.S. Jagger – Royal Artillery Memorial

Paintings

• George Adomeit – Down to the Harbor
• Pierre Bonnard – Nude at the Toilet Table
• Henry Clive – Sultana (approximate year)
• Lovis Corinth – Ecce homo
• Otto Dix – Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
• Arthur Dove – The Critic
• Lyonel Feininger – Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
• Rudolf Frentz – Horsewoman
• George Grosz – Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse
• Edward Hopper – The House by the Railroad
• Wassily Kandinsky – Yellow-Red-Blue
• Tamara de Lempicka – Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)
• Joan Miró – Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence completed)
• Hilda Rix Nicholas – Les fleurs dédaignées
• Pablo Picasso – The Three Dancers
• Veno Pilon – Russian Woman
• Georg Schrimpf – Martha Reading a Letter
• Charles Sheeler – Still Life
• Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head: Desire
• Xu Beihong – Jiang Biwei by a table

Sculptures

Aaltonen works on the statue of Nurmi

• Joan of Arc (Portland, Oregon)
• Wäinö Aaltonen – Statue of Paavo Nurmi
• Josep Clarà – Serenity
• Jacob Epstein – Rima (memorial to W. H. Hudson in Hyde Park, London)
• Daniel Chester French – Statue of Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.)
• Alberto Giacometti – Torso
• Charles Sargeant Jagger – Royal Artillery Memorial
• Paul Manship – The Flight of Europa
• Frederick Roth – Statue of Balto, Central Park
• Francis Derwent Wood – Machine Gun Corps Memorial

Births

• 1 January
  • Mario Merz, Italian artist (d. 2003).
  • Kossa Bokchan, Serbian painter (d. 2009).
• 17 January – Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996).
• 23 January – James Bingham, Northern Irish painter (d. 2009).
• 12 February – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1992).
• 22 February – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000).
• 10 March – Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (d. 1990).
• 13 March – Jane Bown, English portrait photographer (d. 2014).
• 29 March – Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter (d. 2014).
• 4 April – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d. 2007).
• 29 April – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (d. 2007).
• 16 May – Hannes Hegen, German cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2014).
• 22 May – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991).
• 23 July – Burt Glinn, American photographer (d. 2008).
• 26 August – Robert Colescott, American artist (d. 2009).
• 22 October – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d. 2008).
• 28 October – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006).
• 18 December – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d. 2007).
• date unknown – Panayiotis Tetsis, Greek painter.

Deaths

• January 8 – George Bellows (b. 1882)
• March 1 – Ramon Pichot, mentor of Salvador Dalí
• March 8 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
• April 14 – John Singer Sargent, painter (b. 1856)
• May 2 – Jan Štursa, sculptor (b. 1880)
• July 17 – Lovis Corinth, painter and printmaker (b. 1858)
• July 28 – Léon Augustin Lhermitte, genre painter (b. 1844)
• August 21 – Karl Brendel, schizophrenic outsider artist (b. 1871)
• September 17 – Carl Eytel, German American artist (b. 1862)
• September 25 – Charles Cottet, post-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
• November 27 – Roger de La Fresnaye, painter (b. 1885)
• December 18 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, sculptor (b. 1850)
• December 29 – Félix Vallotton, painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
• date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (b. 1847).

See also

• 1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union