1991 in art

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Events

• 14 April – In the Netherlands, thieves steal 20 paintings worth $500 million from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Less than an hour later they are found in an abandoned car near the museum..^[1]
• 25 May – Opening of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.
• 9 July – The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott, is opened.^[2]
• September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen (Germany) as the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen.

Publications

• Charles, Prince of Wales - Watercolours.
• Eric Hebborn, Drawn to Trouble^[3]

Exhibitions

• Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Dance

• May – First performance of Candoco Dance Company

Awards

• Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor

Works

• Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Arauz
• Chain Reaction (sculpture in Santa Monica, California) – Paul Conrad
• The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hirst
• Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien Hirst
• Self (sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) – Marc Quinn
• Field (multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) – Antony Gormley
• Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (installation) – Cornelia Parker

Births

• Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist.^[4]

Deaths

January to June

• 3 January – Doris Zinkeisen, British theatrical designer and commercial artist (b. 1898).
• 7 February – Jean-Paul Mousseau, Canadian artist (b. 1927).
• 13 February – Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900).
• 15 March – Vladimir Seleznev, Russian painter (b. 1928).
• 29 March – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928).
• 10 June – Jean Bruller, French writer and illustrator (b. 1902).

July to December

• 16 July – Robert Motherwell, American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker (b. 1915).
• 3 August – Boris Ugarov, Russian painter, a last President of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (b. 1922).
• 30 August – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925).
• 5 September - Alexander Pushnin, Russian painter and art educator (b. 1921).
• 14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b. 1910).
• 24 September – Dr. Seuss, American illustrator (b. 1904).
• 27 October – Pyke Koch, Dutch painter (b. 1901).
• 7 November – Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920).
• 11 November – Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Russian painter and theater artist (b. 1915).
• 18 November – Reg Parlett, English comics artist (b. 1904).
• 21 November – Joseph Delaney, American painter (b. 1904).
• 9 December – Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b. 1927).
• 10 December – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901).
• 12 December - Moshe Castel, Israeli painter (b. 1909).

See also

• 1991 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union

References

1. Paul L. Montgomery, "Lost and Found: Huge van Gogh Theft Fails", New York Times, 1991. Retrieved on 2012-01-31.
2. National Gallery official website
3. False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996 ISBN 0-684-83148-1
4. Cartrain. "Cartrain In The National Portrait Gallery". YouTube. Retrieved 2009-09-20.