Timeline / 1890 to 1930 / ALL COUNTRIES / FINE and APPLIED ARTS
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Timeline / 1890 to 1930 / ALL COUNTRIES / FINE AND APPLIED ARTS Date Country Theme 1890 - 1900 Tunisia Fine And Applied Arts Construction of public and private buildings in the arabisance style, which proposes a synthesis of European architectural styles with Arab and Spanish-North African architecture. 1890 Turkey Fine And Applied Arts Müfide Kadri is born (d. 1912). One of the early female painters, she took private classes from Osman Hamdi Bey. 1890 - 1910 Germany Fine And Applied Arts The paintings by Heinrich Vogeler, Das Konzert (Sommerabend) (1893), and Gustav Klimt, Der Kuss (1908), exemplify the period in art known as Jugendstil or Art Nouveau. 1891 Austria Fine And Applied Arts The Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna purchases the Karabakh carpet in Istanbul. 1891 Turkey Fine And Applied Arts Fausto Zonaro (1854–1929) arrives in #stanbul as an independent artist. He receives the title of court painter in 1896. 1894 - 1900 France Fine And Applied Arts The Salon des Cent (Salon of the One Hundred) neither focused on any one school of art nor paid attention to any of the official bodies. 1895 France Fine And Applied Arts The Maison de l'Art nouveau by Samuel Bing. 1895 France Fine And Applied Arts Castel Béranger by Hector Guimard is in the Art Nouveau style. 1897 Romania Fine And Applied Arts The National School of Architecture is founded as a section of the School of Fine Arts in Bucharest. It becomes an independent institution in 1904, under the name the Superior School of Architecture. 1897 Austria Fine And Applied Arts Gustav Klimt (1867–1918) founds, along with other Viennese artists, the Viennese Secession, a society of Austrian Art Nouveaux artists. Date Country Theme 1897 - 1904 Germany Fine And Applied Arts Formation of the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (now the Bode Museum), proposed by Wilhelm von Bode, and built by Ernst von Ihne and Max Hasak. 1900 - 1920 Tunisia Fine And Applied Arts Art Nouveau marks the city’s landscape. 1900 Greece Fine And Applied Arts Foundation of the National Gallery in Athens. Its chief curator is the acclaimed painter Georgios Iakovidis. 1901 Italy Fine And Applied Arts Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo paints The Fourth Estate, showing workers on strike. The painting will become an icon of the workers’ movement. 1901 Republic of Macedonia Fine And Applied Arts (FYROM) One of the founders of Macedonian modern art, Lazar Lichenoski (d. 1964) is born in Galichnik. After graduating from Belgrade Art School he attended prestigeous art schools in Paris. He is best known for his landscapes, which reveal the harmonious beauty of nature through endless views from the peak of Bistra Mountain. Lichenoski introduced expressionism in Macedonian art. 1901 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts The Sociedade Promotora de Belas Artes (1861) and the Grémio Artístico (1890) created by the Grupo do Leão (1880) merge into the National Society of Fine Arts (SNBA) headed by Malhoa Columbano and António Ramalho. In Porto, the Centro Artístico Portuense (CAP) (founded in 1870) did not survive the death of the painter Silva Porto in 1903. 1903 Republic of Macedonia Fine And Applied Arts (FYROM) A founder of contemporary Macedonian art, Nikola Martinoski is born in Krushevo (d. 1973). He learned painting in the Skopje workshop of the icon painter Dimitar Andonov, and in Bucharest and Paris. His distinctive expressionist style depicts social themes and portraits, influenced by Macedonian frescos and the modern Parisian school. His outstanding work is the painting "Mother and Child". 1903 Austria Fine And Applied Arts The Wiener Werkstätte, an association of designers such as Joseph Hofmann and Koloman Moser is founded, covering all aspects of design from fashion to furniture. 1907 Republic of Macedonia Fine And Applied Arts (FYROM) Date Country Theme Gjorgji Zografski paints what is considered to be the earliest depiction of an actual historic event. It shows the plundering raid on the village of Papradishte near Veles that occurred in 1884. 1908 Greece Fine And Applied Arts An exhibition by members of the Omada Technis (Art Group), which includes Nikolaos Lytras, Konstantinos Parthenis, Konstantinos Malea and others, reacts to the conservative academicism of the Munich school. 1909 Italy Fine And Applied Arts Filippo Marinetti publishes the Futurist Manifesto in Le Figaro. 1909 Turkey Fine And Applied Arts A Turkish group of painters, Association of Ottoman Painters, is founded by students from the Fine Arts Academy in #stanbul. 1910 - 1930 Germany Fine And Applied Arts Foundation of the Pergamon Museum (including the Museum of Islamic Art), conceptualised by Wilhelm von Bode, and built by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann. 1911 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts The painters Dórdio Gomes (1890–1976) and Guilherme de Santa Rita (1889– 1918) introduce modernism in Portugal. Largely unaccepted by the critics, as was happening in other European countries, the main focus of the modernists was to fight against the conservatism of techniques and themes still cherished by Portuguese art consumers. 1912 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts A reaction to academic teaching of the National Society of Fine Arts (SNBA) emerges in 1911 with the first free exhibition of young modernist painters. This is highlighted in the first Exhibition of the Humoristas of 1912, which includes painters Cristiano Cruz, Almada Negreiros, Eduardo Viana, Stuart de Carvalhais, José Pacheko and Emmerico Nunes and sculptor Diogo de Macedo. 1912 Spain Fine And Applied Arts Foundation of the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, an important step in the progress of applied arts and design, especially because its main objective is the education of workers, students and the public in the styles, decoration and other aspects of the applied arts. 1912 - 1920 Italy Fine And Applied Arts Giorgio de Chirico’s first metaphysical paintings (L’enigma dell’ora, 1912; Le muse inquietanti, 1916; Ettore e Andromaca, 1917; Il Grande Metafisico, 1917). Date Country Theme 1913 Italy Fine And Applied Arts Umberto Boccioni made the sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, considered a masterpiece of Italian Futurism. 1913 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts February–March: Amadeo Sousa Cardoso, at the invitation of Walter Pach (1883– 1958), exhibits eight works at the Armory Show (1st Show of European Art, USA) in New York, Chicago and Boston. The Chicago art collector Arthur J. Eddy acquires three paintings by Cardoso and promotes his work in his book Cubists and Post-Impressionism book, emphasising his colour techniques. 1913 Austria Fine And Applied Arts Egon Schiele (1890–1918) becomes a member of the Bund Österreichischer Künstler (Society of Austrian Artists). 1914 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts With the outbreak of World War I, the modernist movement thrives in Portugal with the return from France of a group of avant-garde artists including the painters Manuel Bentes (1885–1961), Eduardo Viana (1881–1967), José Pacheko (1885– 1934) and Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, and the sculptors Diogo de Macedo (1889– 1959), and Francisco Franco (1885–1955). 1915 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts In the 1910s several modernist painters such as Eduardo Viana rejected the current teaching of academic naturalism, still deeply rooted in the national taste. Their focus was the cubism, futurism and Dada movements in Paris, but also the Orphism of French painters Sonia and Robert Delaunay, living in Portugal in 1915– 16. 1920 Portugal Fine And Applied Arts Although it reproduces a traditional technique, the use of azulejo (ceramic tilework) meets the need for modernisation of shops and public buildings in main cities throughout Portugal at the beginning of the 20th century. 1925 France Fine And Applied Arts Promotion of Art Deco at the International Exhibition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts, Paris..