Editing 1912 in art (section)

==Events==
[[File:BlaueReiter.jpg|thumb|Cover of ''[[Der Blaue Reiter#Almanac|Der Blaue Reiter Almanac]]'']]
* [[January 5]] ([[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]] December 23, 1911) – [[Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet|Moscow Art Theatre production of ''Hamlet'']], designed by [[Edward Gordon Craig]], opens.
* April – [[Egon Schiele]] is arrested in [[Neulengbach]] for seducing and abducting a minor; these charges are dropped but he is imprisoned for 21 days for exhibiting erotic drawings in a place accessible to children (his studio). One of the drawings in burned in court. He paints while imprisoned.<ref>{{cite news|last=Johnson|first=Ken|title=The Wider, Not Wilder, Egon Schiele|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/arts/design/the-wider-not-wilder-egon-schiele.html|work=The New York Times|date=2005-10-21|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Kallier|first=Jane|title=Egon Schiele was not a sex offender|url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/egon-schiele-was-not-a-sex-offender|work=The Art Newspaper|date=June 2018|access-date=2020-03-02}}</ref>
* May – ''[[Der Blaue Reiter#Almanac|The Blue Rider Almanac]]'' published in [[Munich]], containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and [[Vasilly Kandinsky]]'s  experimental theater composition ''[[The Yellow Sound]]''.
* [[June 26]] – Austrian writer [[Frida Uhl|Frida Strindberg]] opens [[The Cave of the Golden Calf]], a [[London]] [[nightclub]] decorated by [[Spencer Gore (artist)|Spencer Gore]], [[Wyndham Lewis]], [[Charles Ginner]] and [[Jacob Epstein]] with its motif by [[Eric Gill]]; it becomes a haunt of [[Futurism|Futurist]]s.
* July – At the [[1912 Summer Olympics]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Americans|American]] [[Shooting|marksman]], [[horse breeder]] and artist [[Walter W. Winans]] wins a silver medal for [[Shooting at the Summer Olympics|shooting]] and a gold in the sculpture category of the [[Art competitions at the 1912 Summer Olympics|art competitions]] for his [[Bronze sculpture|bronze]] statuette ''An American Trotter''.
* [[December 24]] – [[William Zorach]] marries [[Marguerite Zorach|Marguerite Thompson]].
* In Paris, [[Albert Gleizes]] and [[Jean Metzinger]] publish the first major treatise on [[Cubism]], ''[[Du "Cubisme"]]'', followed by [[André Salmon]]'s ''La jeune peinture française'' including ''Histoire anecdotique du cubisme''.
* French poet [[Guillaume Apollinaire]] introduces the term '[[Orphism (art)|Orphism]]', in an address at the Salon de la [[Section d'Or]], referring initially to the 'pure painting' of [[František Kupka]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qYATQ3Rw6qgC|title=The Cubist Painters (Les Peintres Cubistes: Méditations esthétiques)|orig-year=1913|editor=Read, Peter|publisher=University of California Press|year=2004|isbn=9780520243545|access-date=2016-11-09|archive-date=2017-01-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101210710/https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cubist_Painters.html?id=qYATQ3Rw6qgC&redir_esc=y|url-status=live|last1=Apollinaire|first1=Guillaume}}</ref>
* [[Ludwig Meidner]] begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".