Chronology of the European Avant Garde, 19001937 - British Library

1915
• Russian occupation of Poland ends by German victory in Eastern
front; Poland occupied by German and Austrian armies.
• Women get the vote in Denmark and Iceland.
• March The British launch the first planned air raid of the war.
• 7 May Sinking of the Lusitania.
• 23 May Italy declares war on Austria.
FRANCE
• Duchamp La Mariée mise à nu.
GREAT BRITAIN
• The Signature, edited by D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield
and John Middleton Murry, London. Last issue 1915.
• Wyndham Lewis The Crowd (Tate).
• Vorticist exhibition at the Doré Gallery.
• Death of Gaudier-Brzeska.
ITALY
• Marinetti Guerra, sola igiene del mondo.
• Severini Suburban train arriving in Paris (Tate)
• De Chirico and Savinio return to Italy. They are posted in Ferrara
where they meet De Pisis and Carrà.
• Carrà paints L’Antigrazioso which marks the end of his Futurist
period.
• Palazzeschi, Papini, and Soffici break with Marinetti and his
followers and publish ‘Futurismo e Marinettismo’ in Lacerba.
• January Teatro futurista sintetico (manifesto signed by Marinetti,
Corra, and Settimelli).
• March Balla-Depero Ricostruzione futurista dell’universo.
SPAIN
• Junoy’s calligram Oda a Guynemer published in journal Iberia.
• La Revista (Barcelona 1915-1936), edited by Joaquim Folguera,
publishes articles on Futurism.
RUSSIA
• Gabo makes his first constructions. Exhibition of Leftist trends,
Petrograd. Publication of Aliagov and Kruchenykh’s Transrational
Book (ill. by Rozanova).
• February-March Petrograd, Tramway V exhibition, at which
Malevich shows “alogical” paintings and Tatlin shows his “painterly
reliefs”.
• Publication of Filonov’s Sermon-Chant about Universal Sprouting
and of the miscellany The Archer, which includes writings of Blok,
Kuzmin and Hylaea group.
• Moscow. The Exhibition of painting, 1915 includes Rayonism,
Tatlin’s reliefs and “counter reliefs” and his “construction of
materials”. Mayakovsky, the Burliuks and Kamensky also
contribute.
• May Possible creation of Suprematist work in a drawing of the
curtain, a black square for the 2 nd unrealized publication of futurist
Kruchenykh’s opera Victory over the Sun.
• Late Publication of Took: a Futurist Drum, influenced by the
English Vorticist publication Blast.
• December Publication of Malevich’s From Cubism to
Suprematism: The New Painterly Realism. In Petrograd The Last
Futurist Exhibition of Pictures. Includes Tatlin, Malevich, Puni. First
public showing of Suprematist works such as Malevich’s famous
Black square.
HUNGARY
• Kassák publishes his first volume of poetry Eposz Wagner
maszkjában (An epic in Wagner’s mask).
• Béla Uitz is awarded gold medal of the International Exhibition of
Graphic Art at San Francisco World Fair.
• János Máttis Teutsch turns to expressionist style of painting.
• Valéria Dénes dies of pneumonia, her husband Sándor
Galimberti commits suicide.
• Lajos Kassák publishes his first avant-garde journal A Tett (The
Deed).
ROMANIA
• Publication of the review Chemarea (The Call) a prefiguration of
the Dada aesthetic.
UKRAINE
• Skoptsy (near Kyiv) & Verbivka (near Cherkasy). Peasant craft
cooperatives. Embroideries and kilims designed by Suprematist
artists – Kazimir Malevich, Alexandra Exter, Nina Henke-Meller,
Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Olga Rozanova, Nadezhda
Udaltsova, and Yevgeniia Prybylska.