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  • Unknown photographer. César Domela-Nieuwenhuis. c. 1910. Courtesy Martini & Ronchetti Gallery, Genoa, Italy. © 2014 César Domela/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
  • Alternate Name(s) César Domela (Alternate Name)

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Artist Chronology

January 15, 1900
Born
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Amsterdam
1920–22
César Domela-Nieuwenhuis lives in Ascona; meets the Zurich Dadaists Hans Arp and Hans Richter. Domela begins painting landscapes and still lifes
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Hans Richter
Ascona
1923
César Domela-Nieuwenhuis lives in Berlin; meets Raoul Hausmann
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Raoul Hausmann
Berlin
1923
Grosse Berliner Kunstausstellung
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Berlin
1924
César Domela-Nieuwenhuis lives in Paris, where he works in Henri Laurens's studio and meets Constantin Brancusi and Fernand Léger
At location: Constantin Brancusi, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1924
Becomes the youngest member of the de Stijl group
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1924
First solo exhibition, at the Kunstzaal d'Audretsch
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
The Hague
August 1–December 1, 1925
Exposition internationale: L'Art d'aujourd'hui at the Chambre Syndicale de la Curiosité et des Beaux-Arts
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Visitor: Florence Henri, Jindřich Štyrský
Paris
1926
Lives in Amsterdam
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Amsterdam
November 19, 1926–January 10, 1927
International Exhibition of Modern Art Assembled by Société Anonyme, at the Brooklyn Museum
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, László Moholy-Nagy, Edmund Kesting, Kate Steinitz
Brooklyn
1927
Junge Talente at Museum der bildenden Künste, Breslau
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, John Gutmann
Wroclaw
1927–37
Publishes in i10, Blok, De Stijl, Fronta, Cercle et carré, Abstraction-création art non figuratif, and Transition
Contributor: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris Prague Amsterdam
1927–31
Lives in Berlin; establishes a graphic design studio
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1927
César Domela-Nieuwenhuis visits the Bauhaus and meets László Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy
Dessau
1929
Reklameschau exhibition
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Berlin
April 20–May 20, 1929
Neue Typografie at Staatliche Künstlerbibliothek
Participant: Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Max Burchartz, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Nerlinger
Berlin
June–September 1930
Das Lichtbild exhibition
Participant: Aenne Biermann, Bill Brandt, Max Burchartz, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Florence Henri, Lotte Jacobi, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Helmar Lerski, Walter A. Peterhans, August Sander, Umbo (Otto Umbehr), Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy, Werner Rohde, Franz Roh, Marianne Breslauer, Alexander Hackenschmied, Edmund Kesting, Jean Moral, Willy Zielke, Lore Feininger, Hans Finsler
Munich
April 25–May 31, 1931
Fotomontage at Staatliche Kunstbibliothek
Participant: Herbert Bayer, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Raoul Hausmann, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Gustav Klutsis, Oskar Nerlinger
Organizer: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Berlin
1933–39
Lives in Paris; establishes a screenprinting studio
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1934
First solo exhibition in Paris, at Galerie Pierre
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
March 2–April 19, 1936
Cubism and Abstract Art at The Museum of Modern Art
Participant: Herbert Bayer, Constantin Brancusi, Francis Bruguière, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Lyonel Feininger, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy, Hans Richter, Aleksandr Rodchenko
New York
December 7, 1936–January 17, 1937
Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism at The Museum of Modern Art
Participant: Herbert Bayer, César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, Walker Evans, Raoul Hausmann, George Platt Lynes, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), László Moholy-Nagy
New York
1937
Cofounds the magazine Plastique
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
January 16–February 14, 1937
Die Konstruktivisten at Kunsthalle Basel
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis, El Lissitzky, László Moholy-Nagy
Basel
1938
Abstrakte Kunst at the Stedelijk Museum
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Amsterdam
1939
Second solo exhibition at the Galerie Pierre
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1939
Art of Tomorrow at Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
New York
1939–57
Réalités nouvelles at Galerie Charpentier
The exhibition becomes an annual salon for abstract art. Domela participates regularly until 1957 and once again in 1968.
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1941–92
Lives in Paris
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1943
Exhibition at the Galerie Jeanne Bucher
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1944
Exhibition at the Galerie L'Esquisse
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1945
Art Concret at the Galerie René Drouin
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1945
Kunst in vrijheid at the Rijksmuseum
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Amsterdam
1946
L'Art abstrait at Centre des Recherches
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris
1948
Solo exhibition at the Galerie Apollinaire
Participant: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
London
December 20, 1992
Dies
At location: César Domela-Nieuwenhuis
Paris

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