Events

• May - Retreating SS forces destroy the Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings.^[1][2]
• July–December - Han van Meegeren paints his last forgery of a Dutch Golden Age painting, Jesus among the Doctors, before witnesses in Amsterdam to refute charges of having sold genuine Dutch cultural property to Nazis.^[3]
• October 25 - Jackson Pollock marries Lee Krasner.
• Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.

Han van Meegeren demonstrates his techniques before an expert panel by painting his last forgery Jesus among the Doctors

Awards

• Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED

Exhibitions

Works

• Marc Chagall - Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio
• Salvador Dal
  • The Apotheosis of Homer
  • Basket of Bread
• Russell Drysdale - The Drover's Wife
• Jackson Pollock - Troubled Queen (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
• Joe Rosenthal - Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (photograph)
• David Alfaro Siqueiros - El Coronelazo
• Elizabeth Shoumatoff - Unfinished portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Philip Zec - Here you are. Don't lose it again! (political cartoon)^[4]

Births

• January 25 - Barbara Kruger, photographer, graphic artist and sculptor
• January 31 - Joseph Kosuth, conceptual artist
• March 8 - Anselm Kiefer, sculptor.
• June 14 - J rg Immendorff, German painter, sculptor, stage designer and art professor (d.2007)
• June 30 - Sean Scully, painter
• July 16 - Victor Sloan, Irish visual artist
• July 28 - Jim Davis, cartoonist, creator of "Garfield"
• August 4 - Paul McCarthy, sculptor, installation artist and video artist
• August 18 - Brummbaer, digital artist
• August 19 - Peter Reginato, sculptor
• September 27 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born American performance and Conceptual artist turned painter (d.2003)
• date unknown
  • Suzanne Lacy, installations, video and performance artist.
  • Catherine Leroy, French photographer (d.2006).
• Susan Rothenberg, painter
• Daisy Youngblood, ceramic artist and sculptor.
• Robert Bishop, bondage artist (d.1991)

Deaths

• January 7 - Alexander Stirling Calder, sculptor (b. 1870)
• March 31 - Hando Ruus, Estonian painter (b. 1917)
• April - Josef apek, painter (b. 1887)
• April 22 - K the Kollwitz, painter, lithographer and sculptor (b. 1867)
• May 5 - Ren Lalique, French glass designer (b. 1860)
• June 15 - Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1897)
• September 16 - David Young Cameron, Scottish painter and etcher (b. 1865)
• October 24 - Franklin Carmichael, painter (b. 1890)
• October 31 - Ignacio Zuloaga, painter (b. 1870)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Hennell, painter (b. 1903)
  • Franz Sedlacek, Austrian painter (b. 1891)

See also

• 1945 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

References

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