Timeline · 1910–1919
The 1910s (1910–1919) fall within Modernism's restless succession of movements, from Fauvism to abstraction. Across these years the gallery holds 5,812 public-domain artworks, with Post-Impressionism the decade's dominant movement (653 works) and Edvard Munch among its most prolific hands.
Pandora 1911 
September Morn 1912 
Tilla Durieux 1914 
Tropical Forest with Monkeys 1910 
Portrait of a German Officer 1914 
Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey) 1914 
In the Studio (Gari Melchers and Hugo Reisinger) 1912 
Jean with Blue Book and Apple 1916 
Joy of Life 1911 
Nude on a Divan 1918 
Saint Sebastian 1911 
The Church of Souain 1917 
The Bersaglieri 1918 
Chaim Soutine 1918 
Peonies 1910 
40, Rue Ravignan 1913 
Self-Portrait 1910 
Landscape from Kragerø 1912 
Still Life with Checked Tablecloth 1915 
The Green Lacquer Room, Museo Correr, Venice 1912 
The Masquerade Dress 1911 
Louis Kronberg in His Studio in Copley Hall 1913 
Water Lilies 1919 
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On the morning of August 21, 1911, Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian glazier employed by the Louvre, removed the Mona Lisa from its frame and hid it under his smock to steal the…
The theft catapulted the Mona Lisa to unprecedented global fame, cementing its status as the world's most recognized artwork.
What else happened that dayThe International Exhibition of Modern Art, quickly known as the Armory Show, opened at New York's 69th Regiment Armory on February 17, 1913. Organized by the Association of…
It became the canonical starting point for modern art's broad public reception in the United States.
What else happened that dayThe International Exhibition of Modern Art, famously known as the Armory Show, opened at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City. Organized by the Association of American…
It fundamentally altered the trajectory of American art by legitimizing modernism and shifting the center of the art world from Paris to…
What else happened that dayOn January 4, 1914, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa resumed its place in the Louvre's Salon Carre after its 1911 theft by former Louvre worker Vincenzo Peruggia. The painting had…
The theft and return helped make the Mona Lisa the world's best-known painting.
What else happened that dayWalter Gropius officially opened the State Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, merging the Grand-Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts with the Saxon School of Arts and Crafts. The school…
It became the most influential school of design, architecture, and applied arts in history.
What else happened that dayThe New York presentation of the International Exhibition of Modern Art, later known as the Armory Show, ended its run at the 69th Regiment Armory on March 15, 1913. Organized by…
It accelerated American engagement with Cubism, Fauvism, and modernist collecting.
What else happened that dayOn 5 February 1916, Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings opened the Cabaret Voltaire in the back room of the Holländische Meierei at Spiegelgasse 1 in Zurich. Conceived as a small…
Cabaret Voltaire became the symbolic birthplace of Dada and a model for experimental performance spaces.
What else happened that dayThe International Exhibition of Modern Art — organized by the painters Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn — brought roughly 1,300 works to a National Guard armory in Manhattan, giving…
American collecting, museum-building and art-making pivoted toward European modernism in a single season.
What else happened that dayOn 10 March 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson entered the National Gallery in London and attacked Diego Velazquez's Rokeby Venus with a meat cleaver. The action followed the…
The attack became one of the defining examples of modern political vandalism directed at a museum masterpiece.
What else happened that dayHerwarth Walden issued the first number of Der Sturm in Berlin, launching a weekly journal that quickly became one of the central organs of the European avant-garde. The magazine…
Der Sturm helped make Berlin a major prewar clearinghouse for international modernism.
What else happened that dayThe Salon des Independants opened in Paris on March 20, 1912, and ran through May 16. The exhibition came one year after the Cubist concentration in Room 41 had shocked the 1911…
The show consolidated Cubism as an international avant-garde force rather than a local Parisian provocation.
What else happened that dayOn January 13, 1911, an unemployed former navy cook and shoemaker tried to slash Rembrandt van Rijn's The Night Watch at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The attack failed to cut…
The incident helped make The Night Watch a touchstone case in the security and conservation history of high-profile museum paintings.
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