French1885–1941
Robert Delaunay
A French painter who, with Sonia Delaunay, developed Orphism: paintings of circling rings of pure colour. His ideas about light influenced Klee, Macke and Marc.
A life in paintings
- 1885Born
- 1907Cubism begins
In Paris, Picasso and Braque start breaking objects into geometric planes.
- 1911The first Blaue Reiter exhibition
Kandinsky and Marc open their exhibition in Munich, arguing that colour can express the spiritual.
- 1912Influenced August MackeParis
Macke (with Marc) visited Delaunay in Paris in 1912; Delaunay's Orphist colour shaped Macke's late style, including the Tunisian works.
Source: WikipediaInfluenced Paul KleeParisKlee visited Delaunay's Paris studio in 1912 with an introduction from Kandinsky and translated Delaunay's essay 'On Light' into German for Der Sturm (1913). Delaunay's colour theory also influenced Marc and Macke.
Source: Wikipedia - 1913The Armory Show
The International Exhibition of Modern Art opens in New York, then travels to Chicago and Boston, giving many Americans their first sight of European modern art.
Source: Wikipedia - 1914
- 1941Died
In Paris Souza-Cardoso became a close friend of Robert and Sonia Delaunay. In 1913 both men showed at the Armory Show and at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin.
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Edgar Degas
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Group · Munich · 1911
Der Blaue Reiter
Named after the almanac Kandinsky and Marc edited. First exhibition Dec 1911 at Thannhauser, Munich: 43 works by 14 artists, including Delaunay and Henri Rousseau. Ended with the war (Macke killed 1914, Marc 1916).
Exhibition · Berlin · 1913
Erster Deutscher Herbstsalon (1913)
The First German Autumn Salon, organised by Herwarth Walden at his Der Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1913 and curated by August Macke and Franz Marc. It included a memorial show for Henri Rousseau.
- Alexej von Jawlensky
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- August Macke
- Fernand Léger
- Franz Marc
- Henri Rousseau
- Marsden Hartley
- Paul Klee
- Piet Mondrian
- Wassily Kandinsky
Society · Paris · 1884
Société des Artistes Indépendants
Jury-free annual salon founded 1884 by Seurat, Signac, Dubois-Pillet, Redon and others. Home of Neo-Impressionism; Henri Rousseau first showed there in 1886.
- Fernand Léger
- Georges Seurat
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Maximilien Luce
- Paul Signac
- Vincent van Gogh
Where to see them
National Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
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