Anniversaries & Events

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi dies

Italian painter

The Communist revolutionary Fidel Castro led the Cubans to victory over Fulgencia Batista

Alfred Stieglitz is born

Photographer and promoter of modern art

Frank Duveneck is born

American portraitist

Louis Daguerre announces the invention of the daguerreotype

Emperor Hirohito dies

124th Emperor of Japan

Marco Polo dies,

Italian merchant, explorer and writer from the Republic of Venice

The British Museum opens

Paul Cezanne is born

French Post-Impressionist painter

Sophie Taeuber-Arp is born

Swiss artist and painter

Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Russian SFSR and premier of the Soviet Union, died.

Salvador Dalì dies

Spanish surrealist painter

Alexandre Cabanel dies

French painter

Théodore Géricault dies

French painter

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle dies

French sculptor

Edvard Munch dies

Norwegian painter

Claes Oldenburg is born

American Pop Artist

Piet Mondrian dies

Dutch pioneer of abstract art

Michelangelo Buonarroti dies

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet

Sir John Tenniel dies

British illustrator and political cartoonist, best known for his work for Punch and Alice in Wonderland

Frank Gehry is born

Canadian-born American architect and designer

Asger Jorn is born

Danish painter and founding member of the avant-garde movement COBRA

Birth of Yuri Gagarin,

Russian astronaut and Soviet pilot.

Alexej von Jawlensky is born

Russian expressionist painter active in Germany

Albert Einstein was born

William Morris is born

British artist and writer

Official opening of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, a world icon

Walter Gropius founded the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar

Frank Lloyd Wright dies

Architect

El Greco dies

Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance

Ben Nicholson is born

English pianter

Henry Lerolle dies

French painter

Willem de Kooning is born

American Abstract Expressionist

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci dies

Universal genius Leonardo is considered one of the most ingenious and prolific minds of the Renaissance

Audrey Hepburn was born

Belgian-born British actress known for her radiant beauty and style

Completion of the Eiffel Tower

Katsushika Hokusai dies

Japanese painter

National Gallery in London opens to the public

Jean-Léon Gérôme,

French painter and sculptor was born

William Nicholson dies

British Pianter

Henri Rousseau is born

French painter

Tintoretto dies

Italian painter

Dante Alighieri was born

Italian Poet

D-Day: The Allies land in Normandy

Gustave Courbet dies

French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting

King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.

Marie Curie dies

Polish physicist

Walter Gropius dies

German architect and founder of the Bauhaus School

Alphonse Mucha dies

Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist

On board Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are the first two men to land on the moon.

Otto Dix dies

German painter and printmaker

Lavinia Fontana dies

Italian painter regarded as the first woman artist

Alfred Hitchcock, the British film director and producer, also known as the “Master of Suspense” was born.

Invasion of Poland by Germany, which marks the beginning of World War II

Caspar David Friedrich, German painter, exponent of romantic art was born

Arthur Rackham dies

English illustrator best known for his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, The Christmas Carol and many others

Anton Mauve is born

Painter, graphic artist and cousin of Vincent van Gogh

Sophia Loren is born, iconic actress of Italian cinema

August Macke dies

German expressionist painter

Jean-Francois Millet is born

French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn dies

Prolific painter, draftsman, and etcher, usually regarded as the greatest artist of Holland’s “Golden Age”

Nicholas Roerich is born

Russian painter influenced by spirituality, a recurring theme in his philosophy and writings

Jean Antoine Watteau is born

French painter who profoundly influenced other artists thanks to his use of color

William Hogarth dies

English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist

James Ensor died
Belgian painter

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is born

French artist

Eileen Agar is born

British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement

Georges Pierre Seurat is born

French post-Impressionist painter and draftsman

Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies

French painter known throughout the world as a leader of Impressionism

Henri Matisse dies

French artist and leader of the Fauvist movement

Rudolf Hausner is born

Austrian painter, draftsman and sculptor described as the first psychoanalytic painter.

Camille Claudel is born

French sculptor

Paul Cadmus is born

American painter and photographer

Wassily Kandinsky dies

Russian-born French artist known for his purely abstract work

Paul Klee is born

Swiss-German painter influenced by Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism

Edward Redfield is born

American Impressionist landscape painter

Nancy Graves is born

conceptual sculpture artist

Frederic Remington dies

American painter, illustrator, sculptor and writer.

Andreas Vesalio is born

the Flemish physician who wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive textbook of human anatomy