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| 1810 |
Goethe publishes "Theory of Color"; Goethe takes a non-scientific stance in determining the physical properties of color, as well as its metaphysical potential |
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| 1839 |
Michel-Eugène Chevreul publishes treatise "On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colors"; Through optical analysis of prismatic and complementary colors, Chevreul showed that certain color juxtapositions intensify adjoining hues, creating different effects according to their placement |
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| 1866 |
Wassily Kandinsky is born on December 4 in Moscow, Russia |
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| 1870 |
Ivan Klyun is born in Vladimir province, Russia |
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| 1871 |
Frantisek Kupka is born on September 22 in Opochno, Bohemia
Giacomo Balla is bornon August 18 in Turin, Italy |
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| 1872 |
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Piet Mondrian) is born on March 7 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands |
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| 1874 |
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Joaquín Torres-García is born on July 28 in Montevideo, Uruguay |
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| 1875 |
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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born on January 9 in New York, New York
The Art Students League is founded in New York City as an alternative to the National Academy; The League is artist-run and, therefore, generally more responsive to new currents |
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| 1876 |
Bart van der Leck is born on November 26 in Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| 1877 |
Joseph Stella is born on June 13 in Muro Lucano, Italy |
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| 1878 |
Kazimir Malevich is born on February 26 in Kieve, Russia
Otto Freundlich is born on July 10 in Stolp, Germany (now Stupsk, Poland)
Jean Crotti is born on April 24 in Bulle, Switzerland |
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| 1880 |
Josef Hartwig is born on March 13 in Munich
Alexandre Bogomazov is born in Yampol, Ukraine |
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Arthur Dove is born on August 2 in Canandaigua, NY
Mark Tobey is born |
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| 1881 |
Mikhail Larionov is born on June 3 in Tiraspol, Moldova
Natalia Goncharova is born on June 16 in Negayevo, Tula, Russia
Adolf Meyer is born on June 17 in Mechernich, near Euskirchen
Fernand Léger is born on Feburary 4 in Argentan, France |
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Albert Eugene Gallatin (A. E. Gallatin) is born in Villanova, Pennsylvania |
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| 1882 |
Umberto Boccioni is born on October 19 in Reggio Calabria, Italy
Auguste Herbin is born on April 29 in Quiévy-la-Motte, France |
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| 1883 |
Gino Severini is born on April 7 in Cortona, Italy
Theo van Doesburg is born on August 30 in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Walter Gropius is born on May 17 in Berlin, Germany |
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| 1884 |
Wyndham Lewis is born on November 18 in Amherst, England
Alexandra Exter is born on Janaury 6 in Belostok, Russia (now Bialystok, Poland)
Vilmos Huszár is born on January 5 in Budapest, Hungary
Antoine Pevsner is born on January 18 in Oryol, Russia |
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| 1885 |
Robert Delaunay is born
Sonia Delaunay is born
Ludwig Hilberseimer is born on September 14 in Karlsruhe, Germany
Lilly Reich is born on June 16 in Berlin, Germany |
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| 1886 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is born on March 27 in Aachen, Germany
Eberhard Schrammen is born on November 11 in Cologne, Germany
Willem van Leusden is born on September 25 in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Olga Rozanova is born in Malenki, Vladimir province, Russia
Georges Vantongerloo is born on November 24 in Antwerp, Belgium |
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Morgan Russell is born on January 25 in New York, NY |
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| 1887 |
Marcel Duchamp is born on July 28 in Blainville, Normandy, France
Chris Beekman is born on May 26 in The Hague, The Netherlands |
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| 1888 |
Josef Albers is born on March 19 in Bottrop, Germany
Alberto Magnelli is born on July 1 in Florence, Italy
Johannes Itten is born on November 11 in Südern-Linden, Switzerland |
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| 1889 |
Hermann Glöckner is born on January 21 in Cotta, Germany
Willi Baumeister is born on January 22 in Stuttgart, Germany
Walter Determann is born on February 7 in Hannover, Germany
Rudolf Franz Hartogh is born on May 31 in Hamburg, Germany
Yury Annenkov is born on July 23 in Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan
Laszló Peri is born in Budapest, Hungary
Ljubov Sergejevna Popowa is born in Moscow, Russia
Oscar Schlemmer is born in Stuttgart, Germany
Sophie Taeuber-Arp is born on January 19 in Davos, Switzerland |
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| 1890 |
El Lissitzky is born in Polschinok, Russia
Naum Gabo is born in Briansk, Russia
Hans Luckhardt is born on June 16 in Berlin, Germany
Walter Dexel is born in Munich, Germany
Hilla von Rebay (Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Rebay von Ehrenwiesen) is born in Strasbourg, Germany |
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Stanton Macdonald-Wright is born |
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| 1891 |
Anton Lorenz is born in Hungary
Alexander Rodchenko is born in St. Petersburg, Russia
Ian Fairweather is born on September 29 in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire, Scotland |
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Alma Thomas is born in Columbus, Georgia |
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| 1892 |
Adolf Richard Fleischmann is born in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
Camille Graeser is born in Carouge or Geneva, Switzerland
Franz Schuster is born on December 26 in Vienna, Austria |
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Charles G. Shaw is born in New York City |
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| 1893 |
Leo Breuer is born in Bonn, Germany
Leo Leuppi is born in Zurich, Switzerland
Wladyslaw Strzemenski is born on November 21 in Minsk, Belorussia, Russia
Sándor Bortnyik is born on July 3 in Marosvásárhely, Romania |
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| 1894 |
Ben Nicholson is born in Denham, England
Henryk Stazewski is born in Warsaw, Poland
Josef Pohl is born on February 5 in Braunau, Böhman
Henri Berlewi is born in Warsaw, Poland
Wassily Ermilow is born in Charkov, Russia
Iwan Puni (Jean Pougny) is born in Konokala, Finland |
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Roy de Maistre is born in Maryvale, New South Wales, Australia |
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| 1895 |
Laszló Moholy-Nagy is born in Bacsbarsod, Hungary
Marcelle Cahn is born in Strasbourg, France
Rudolf Lutz is born on October 11 in Heilbronn, Germany
Sandor (Alexandre) Bortnyk is born in Budapest, Hungary
Gustav Kluzis is born in Riga, Latvia |
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| 1896 |
Alfredo Volpi is born in Lucca, Italy
Erich Dieckmann is born on November 5 in Kauernick, West Prussia
Franz Singer is born on February 8 in Vienna
Iwan Koudriachov is born in Russia
Pavel Mansouroff is born in St. Petersburg, Russia |
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Joseph Stella arrives in New York from Italy |
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| 1897 |
August Brauneck is born on September 27 in Krefeld, Germany
Fred Forbat is born on March 31 in Pécs, Hungary
Etienne (Istvan) Béothy is born in Heves, Hungary
Victor Servranckx is born in Diegem, Belgium
Nikolaj Michajlovich Suetin is born in Kaluga, Russia |
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Maurer leaves to study in Europe
Eve Peri is born in Bangor, Maine |
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| 1898 |
André Heurtaux is born in Paris, France
Alfred Arndt is born on November 26 in Elbing, West Prussia
Heinz Borchers is born on May 4 in Bremen, Germany
Erich Brendel is born on July 6 in Bad Kösen, Thüringen, Germany
Friedrich Karl Engemann is born on May 13 in Meuselwitz, Germany
Peter Keler is born on December 2 in Kiel, Germany
Ferdinand Kramer is born on January 22 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
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Alexander Calder is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
John McLaughlin is born in Sharon, Massachusetts
Charmion von Wiegand is born in Chicago, Illinois |
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| 1899 |
Fritz Glarner is born in Zurich, Switzerland
Jean Gorin is born in Saint-Emilien-de-Blain, Loire, France
Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart is born in Osnabrück, Germany
Anneliese Fleischmann (Anni Albers) is born on June 12 in Berlin, Germany
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher is born on November 4 in Creutzthal
Mart Stam is born on August 5 in Purmerend, The Netherlands
Vladimir Stenberg is born in Russia |
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