MINUS SPACE | 1900-1909

MINUS SPACE’s chronology includes major events, exhibitions, and writings regarding the development of reductive art on the international level.

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year	europe	south america	north america

1900	Hans Uhlmann is born in Berlin, Germany

1901			Beauford Delaney is born in Knoxville, Tennessee

1902	Hans Hinterreiter is born in Winterthur, witzerland Richard Paul Lohse is born in Zurich, Switzerland Marcel Breuer is born on May 22 in Pécs, Hungary Bruno Pollak is born in Tysmicnica, Poland Heinz Rasch is born on February 15 in Charlottenburg Ilya Grigoreich Chaschnik is born in Lithuania Lajos d'Ebneth is born in Hungary Ernst Wilhelm Nay is born in Berlin, Germany Paul Kelpe is born in Minden, Germany

1903	Antonio Calderara is born in Abbiategrasso, Lombardy, Italy Barbara Hepworth is born in Wakefield, England Mark Rothko is born in Dvinsk, Russia Karl Keller is born on July 5 in Greiz, Thüringen Bodo Rasch is born on February 17 in Elberfeld Alfred Roth is born on May 21 in Wangen, Switzerland Helmut Schulze is born on October 26 in Naundork bei Merseburg

1904	Hin Bredendieck is born on June 7 in Aurich Karl Hermann Haupt is born on April 16 in Halle, Saale Edgar Hecht is born on December 16 in Kattowitz, Poland Hubert Hoffmann is born on March 23 in Berlin Hans Volger is born on July 30 in Strassburg, France		Alice Trumbull Mason is born in Litchfield, Connecticut

1905	Vilmos Huszar moves to Pays-Bas Kenneth Martin is born in Sheffield, England Katt Both is born on April 28 in Waldkappel, Hessen Hermann Gautel is born on September 10 in Oldenburg Selman Selmanagic is born on April 25 in Srebrenica		Alfred Stieglitz opens his Gallery 291 (1905-1917) Weber and Carles leave to study in Europe Barnett Newman is born in New York, New York George L.K. Morris is born

1906	G. Previati publishes treatise "Principi scientifici del divisionismo: La Technica della pintura" establishing the theory of Divisionism; Divisionism involves "painting solely with pure tints, divided and balanced, and mixing optically, following a rational method" Gino Severini takes first trip to Paris, France Morgan Russell takes first trip to Europe sponsored by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; Russell visits Paris and Italy Heinrich Heidersberger is born in Ingolstadt, Germany Anton Stankowski is born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany Victor Vasarely is born in Pécs, Hungary Martin Decker is born on November 9 in Striegau Hans Fricke is born on September 11 in Oldenburg Wilhelm Jakob Hess is born on August 20 in Nilvingen, Lothringen Wera Meyer-Waldeck is born on May 6 in Dresden		Morgan Russell leaves to study in Europe Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois Burgoyne Diller is born on January 13 in The Bronx, New York Philip Johnson is born on July 8 in Cleveland, Ohio Charles Josef Biederman is born on August 23 in Cleveland, Ohio David Smith is born in Indiana

1907	Adolf Loos publishes "Ornament und Verbrechen" Arthur Dove travels to Paris and southern France Mary Martin is born in Folkestone, England Ilya Bolotowsky is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia Wilhelm Heyerhoff is born on November 24 in Nachrodt Konrad Püschel is born on April 12 in Wernsdorf		Stanton Macdonald-Wright and Patrick Henry Bruce leave to study in Europe Irene Rice Pereira is born on August 5 in Chelsea, Massachusetts

1908	Victor Pasmore is born on December 3 in Chelsham, Surrey, England Max Bill is born on December 22 in Winterthur, Switzerland Rupprecht Geiger is born in Munich, Germany Victor Pasmore is born in Chesham, England Ernst Louis Beck is born on March 16 in Ebingen, Württemberg Cornelis van der Linden is born on April 14 in Schliedam, The Netherlands		Arthur Dove leave to study in Europe

1909	The Italian movement "Futurism", literary in origin, that grew to embrace painting, sculpture, photography and architecture, was launched by the publication "Le Futurisme" by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro on February 20; Marinetti’s intention was to reject the past, to revolutionize culture and make it more modern; The new ideology of "Futurism" set itself with violent enthusiasm against the weighty inheritance of an art tied to the Italian cultural tradition and exalted the idea of an aesthetic generated by the modern myth of the machine and of speed Otto Freundlich moves to Paris, France (1909-14) Gerd Balzer is born on June 13 in Rostock Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann is born on June 7 in Hannover Pius Pahl is born on February 18 in Oggersheim, Pfalz	Roberto Burle Marx is born on August 4 in Sao Paolo, Brazil	Arthur Dove returns to the United States and begins association with Alfred Stieglitz Frank Lloyd Wright designs the Robie House in Chicago, Illinois

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