1925 in art
List of years in Art
Events
- Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
- In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes 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.
- The Bauhaus moves from Weimar to Dessau.
Awards
Works
Paintings
Sculptures
Births
- 1 January - Mario Merz, Italian artist (d.2003).
- 17 January - Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d.1996).
- 12 February - Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d.1992).
- 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, cartoonist and illustrator.
- 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).
- 30 November - Lenore Jaffee, painter.
- 18 December - John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d.2007).
- date unknown
Deaths
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