Editing 1925 in art

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Events from the year '''1925 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[February 23]] – [[Stanley Spencer]] marries [[Hilda Carline]].
* [[March 31]] – The [[Bauhaus]] closes in [[Weimar]] and moves to [[Dessau]].
* April&ndash;October – In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the ''[[International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts]]''; 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.
* [[May 9]] – [[Josef Albers]] marries [[Anni Albers|Anni Fleischmann]].
* [[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.
* Autumn – [[Alfred Stieglitz]] and [[Georgia O'Keeffe]] move to an upper-floor apartment in the [[New York Marriott East Side|Shelton Towers Hotel, New York City]] from where they begin to photograph and paint the views. This year also, Stieglitz begins taking his ''[[Equivalents]]'' series of abstract cloud photographs.
* [[November 13]]/[[November 14|14]] (midnight) – First [[Surrealist]] exhibition opens at the Galerie Pierre, Paris.
* [[Franz Roh]]'s ''Nach Expressionismus &ndash; Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei'' ("After Expressionism &ndash; 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==
[[File:Royal Artillery Monument corner view.jpg|thumb|[[Charles Sargeant Jagger|C.S. Jagger]] – [[Royal Artillery Memorial]]]]

===Paintings===
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* [[George Adomeit]] – ''Down to the Harbor''
* [[Pierre Bonnard]] – ''Nude at the Toilet Table''
* [[Henry Clive]] – ''Sultana'' (approximate year)
* [[Lovis Corinth]] – ''[[:File:Corinth Ecce homo.jpg|Ecce homo]]''
* [[Salvador Dalí|Salvador Dali]]
** ''[[Portrait of My Father]]''
** ''[[Young Woman at a Window]]''
* [[Otto Dix]] – ''[[Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber]]''
* [[Arthur Dove]] – ''The Critic''
* [[Lyonel Feininger]] – ''Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I'' ([[Staatsgalerie Stuttgart]])
* [[Rudolf Frentz]] – ''[[Horsewoman (Frentz)|Horsewoman]]''
* [[George Grosz]] – ''Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse''
* [[Edward Hopper]]
** ''[[House by the Railroad (1925)|House by the Railroad]]''
** ''[[The Bootleggers (Hopper)|The Bootleggers]]''
* [[Wassily Kandinsky]] 
** ''Yellow-Red-Blue''
** ''[[Three Elements]]''
* [[Paul Klee]] – ''[[Fish Magic]]''
* [[Tamara de Lempicka]] – ''[[Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)]]''
* [[Joan Miró]] 
** ''[[Head of a Catalan Peasant]]'' (sequence completed)
** ''[[The Birth of the World]]''
** ''[[The Harlequin's Carnival]]''
* [[Hilda Rix Nicholas]] – ''[[Les fleurs dédaignées]]''
* [[Pablo Picasso]]
** ''[[The Three Dancers]]''
**   ''The Three Graces''
* [[Veno Pilon]] – ''Russian Woman''
* [[Georg Schrimpf]] – ''Martha Reading a Letter''
* [[Charles Sheeler]] – ''[[:File:Charles Sheeler's Still Life.jpeg|Still Life]]''
* [[Alexej von Jawlensky]] – ''[[:File:Alexej von Jawlensky Abstrakter Kopf Begierde.jpg|Abstract Head: Desire]]''
* [[Xu Beihong]] – ''[[:File:Xu-Beihong-1925-Painting-Jiang-Biwei-by-a-table.jpg|Jiang Biwei by a table]]''

===Sculptures===
{{See also|Category:1925 sculptures}}
[[File:Wäinö Aaltonen works on a statue of Paavo Nurmi.jpg|thumb|Aaltonen works on the statue of Nurmi]]

* [[Wäinö Aaltonen]] – Statue of [[Paavo Nurmi]]
* [[Josep Clarà]] – ''[[Serenity (Clara)|Serenity]]''
* [[Jacob Epstein]] – ''Rima'' (memorial to [[W. H. Hudson]] in [[Hyde Park, London]])
* [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] – [[Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (Portland, Oregon)]]
* [[Daniel Chester French]] – Statue of [[Abraham Lincoln]] ([[Lincoln Memorial]], [[Washington, D.C.]])
* [[Alberto Giacometti]] – ''Torso''
* [[Charles Sargeant Jagger]] – [[Royal Artillery Memorial]]
* [[Paul Manship]] – ''[[Actaeon]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/actaeon-1-15661|title = Actaeon (#1) &#124; Smithsonian American Art Museum}}</ref> ''[[Diana (mythology)|Diana]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/diana-15771|title = Diana &#124; Smithsonian American Art Museum}}</ref> and ''[[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 in art|2003]]).
**[[Kossa Bokchan]], Serbian painter (d. [[2009 in art|2009]]).
* [[17 January]] – [[Duane Hanson]], American sculptor (d. [[1996 in art|1996]]).
* [[23 January]] – [[James Bingham (artist)|James Bingham]], Northern Irish painter (d. [[2009 in art|2009]]).
* [[12 February]] – [[Joan Mitchell]], American [[Abstract Expressionist]] painter (d. [[1992 in art|1992]]).
* [[22 February]] – [[Edward Gorey]], American illustrator (d. [[2000 in art|2000]]).
* [[10 March]] – [[Ed van der Elsken]], Dutch photographer (d. [[1990 in art|1990]]).
* [[13 March]] – [[Jane Bown]], English portrait photographer (d. [[2014 in art|2014]]).
* [[25 March]] - [[José Manuel Capuletti]] (d. [[1978 in art|1978]]).
* [[29 March]] – [[Sava Stojkov]], Serbian painter (d. [[2014 in art|2014]]).
* [[1 April]] – [[Bryan Robertson]], English curator (d. [[2002 in art|2002]]).
* [[4 April]] – [[Emmett Williams]], American poet and [[Fluxus]] artist (d. [[2007 in art|2007]]).
* [[29 April]] – [[Iwao Takamoto]], Japanese American [[animator]], [[television producer]] and [[film director]] (d. [[2007 in art|2007]]).
* [[16 May]] – [[Hannes Hegen]], German cartoonist and illustrator (d. [[2014 in art|2014]]).
* [[22 May]] – [[Jean Tinguely]], Swiss painter and sculptor (d. [[1991 in art|1991]]).
* [[21 June]] – [[Stanley Moss]], American poet, publisher and art dealer (d. [[2024 in art|2024]]).
* [[23 July]] – [[Burt Glinn]], American photographer (d. [[2008 in art|2008]]).
* [[26 August]] – [[Robert Colescott]], American artist (d. [[2009 in art|2009]]).
* [[22 October]] – [[Robert Rauschenberg]], American artist (d. [[2008 in art|2008]]).
* [[28 October]] – [[Ian Hamilton Finlay]], Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. [[2006 in art|2006]]).
* [[15 November]] – [[André Lufwa]], Congolese sculptor (Batteur de tam-tam) (d. [[2020 in art|2020]]).
* [[11 December]] – [[Patrick Reyntiens]], English stained glass artist (d. [[2021 in art|2021]]).
* [[18 December]] – [[John Szarkowski]], American photographer, [[curator]], historian and critic (d. [[2007 in art|2007]]).
* ''date unknown''
** [[Lamidi Olonade Fakeye]], Nigerian Yoruba sculptor (d. [[2009 in art|2009]]).
** [[Panayiotis Tetsis]], Greek painter.

==Deaths==
* [[January 8]] – [[George Bellows]], American realist painter (b. [[1882 in art|1882]])
* [[March 1]] – [[Ramon Pichot]], Catalan impressionist painter, mentor of [[Salvador Dalí]] (b. [[1871 in art|1871]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Juliette Wytsman]], Belgian painter (b. [[1866 in art|1866]])
* [[April 14]] – [[John Singer Sargent]], expatriate American portrait painter (b. [[1856 in art|1856]])
* [[April 25]]
** [[Emily Mary Osborn]], English painter (b. [[1828 in art|1828]])
** [[John Quinton Pringle]], Scottish painter (b. [[1864 in art|1864]])
* [[May 2]] – [[Jan Štursa]], Czech sculptor (b. [[1880 in art|1880]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Lovis Corinth]], German painter and printmaker (b. [[1858 in art|1858]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Léon Augustin Lhermitte]], French genre painter (b. [[1844 in art|1844]])
* [[August 15]] – [[George Barbu Știrbei]], Romanian patron of the arts (b. [[1828 in art|1828]])
* [[August 21]] – [[Karl Brendel]], German schizophrenic outsider artist (b. [[1871 in art|1871]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Carl Eytel]], German American artist (b. [[1862 in art|1862]])
* [[September 25]] – [[Charles Cottet]], French post-impressionist painter (b. [[1863 in art|1863]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Heinrich von Angeli]], Austrian society portrait painter (b. [[1840 in art|1840]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Roger de La Fresnaye]], French cubist painter (b. [[1885 in art|1885]])
* c. November – [[Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald]], Irish literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (b. [[1834 in art|1834]])
* [[December 18]] – Sir [[Hamo Thornycroft]], English figure sculptor (b. [[1850 in art|1850]])
* [[December 29]] – [[Félix Vallotton]], Swiss French painter and graphic artist (b. [[1865 in art|1865]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Vladislav Titelbah]], Serbian painter (b. [[1847 in art|1847]]).

==See also==
* [[1925 in fine arts of the Soviet Union]]

==References==
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