Events from the year 1991 in art.
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.Paul L. Montgomery, "Lost and Found: Huge van Gogh Theft Fails", The New York Times, 1991. Retrieved on 2012-01-31. 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.National Gallery official website September – Opening of the Weserburg modern art museum in Bremen (Germany) as the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen.
Publications The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) - Watercolours. Eric Hebborn, Drawn to TroubleFalse Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes, Thomas Hoving, Simon & Schuster, 1996
Exhibitions February 6 until May 6 - Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York. December 13 until February 2, 1992 - Damien Hirst solo exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Arts.
Dance May – First performance of Candoco Dance Company
Awards John Moores Painting Prize - Andrzej Jackowski for "The Beekeeper's son" Turner Prize – Anish Kapoor
Works
Las niñas en la alborada – Félix Aráuz "The Umbrellas" (simultaneous sculptural instillations in California, U.S.A. and Japan) – Christo and Jeanne Claude Chain Reaction (sculpture, Santa Monica, California) – Paul Conrad Field (multiple figure sculptures in terracotta - first version) – Antony Gormley Isolated Elements Swimming in the Same Direction for the Purposes of Understanding – Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living – Damien Hirst Capitalism (sculpture in Portland, Oregon) – Larry Kirkland Guardians of the Gate (bronze, San Francisco) – Miles Metzger PBS 1963-2000 (electric image components and neon, sculpture, Trenton, new Jersey) - Nam Jun Paikhttps://publicartarchive.org/art/PBS-1963-2000/0a318051 Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (installation) – Cornelia Parker Tompkins Square Crawl (performance) - William Pope.L Self (sculpted self-portrait head in artist's blood - first version) – Marc Quinn Host Analog (sculpture, Portland, Oregon) – Buster Simpson Cascade Charley (fountain, Eugene, Oregon) – Alice Wingwall La Familia Pomare – Aline Amaru
Births Hannah Levy, American sculptor Probable date – Cartяain, English graffiti urban artist
Deaths January to June 3 January – Doris Zinkeisen, British theatrical designer and commercial artist (b. 1898). 11 January – Charles Mozley, British artist and art teacher (b. 1914) 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). Princess Fahrelnissa Zeid, Turkish abstract artist (b. 1901). 14 September – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer and author (b. 1910). 18 September - Leland Bell, American painter (b. 1922). 24 September – Dr. Seuss, American illustrator (b. 1904). 8 October – David Budd, American abstract painter (b. 1927) 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). 8 December - Bernice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898). 9 December Greta Kempton, Austrian-American artist (b. 1901). Gisèle Lestrange, French graphic artist (b. 1927). 12 December - Moshe Castel, Israeli painter (b. 1909).
See also 1991 in Fine Arts of the Soviet Union
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