Искусство 1934 года: События и потери

Overview of the events of 1934 in art

Events from the year 1934 in art.

April – David Low's cartoon character Colonel Blimp first appears in the London Evening Standard. April 10 – The Just Judges, a panel of the Ghent Altarpiece painted by Jan van Eyck or his brother Hubert between 1430–32, is stolen from St Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium. In November, on his deathbed, Arsène Goedertier admits to the theft but most of the panel is never recovered. August 31 – John Smiukse destroys the mural Nightmare of 1934 in Tarrytown, New York. Publication in the United States of Irving Stone's biographical novel of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life.

April The Unit One group holds its only exhibition, in Cork Street (London), accompanied by a book, Unit 1: the Modern Movement in English Architecture, Painting and Sculpture, edited by Herbert Read.

March 23 – Wenzel Hablik, German painter, graphic artist and designer (b. 1881)
March 28 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
April 11 – John Collier, English Pre Raphaelite painter (b. 1850)
June 29 – Adolf Kašpar, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1877)
July 1 – Jules Monge, French painter (b. 1855)
August 17 – Aleksandr Borisov, Russian Arctic landscape painter (b. 1866)
September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1884)
October 11 – M. O. Hammond, Canadian photographer (b. 1876)
October 12 – Gertrude Käsebier, American portrait photographer (b. 1852)
October 17 – Adolf Hölzel, German painter of an Impressionism to expressive modernism style (b. 1853)
November 4 – Sir Alfred Gilbert, English sculptor (b. 1854)
December 4 – Paul Albert Besnard, French painter (b. 1849)
December 28 – Pablo Gargallo, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
date unknown – Alfred Boucher, French sculptor (b. 1850)