1925 in art

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The year 1925 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

February 23 – Stanley Spencer marries Hilda Carline.
March 31 – The Bauhaus closes in Weimar and moves to Dessau.
April–October – In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style. Le Corbusier's Pavillon d'Esprit Nouveau is so disliked by the organizers that they erect a six-meter-high fence around it.
May 9 – Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.
September 17 – Frida Kahlo is seriously and permanently injured when a bus in which she is riding collides with a trolleycar in Mexico City; she takes up painting while immobilized following the accident.
Autumn – Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe move to an upper-floor apartment in the Shelton Towers Hotel, New York City from where they begin to photograph and paint the views. This year also, Stieglitz begins taking his Equivalents series of abstract cloud photographs.
November 13/14 (midnight) – First Surrealist exhibition opens at the Galerie Pierre, Paris.
Franz Roh's Nach Expressionismus – Magischer Realismus: Probleme der neuesten europäischen Malerei ("After Expressionism – Magical Realism: Problems of the newest European painting") is published, introducing the term magic realism into cultural criticism.

George Adomeit – Down to the Harbor
Pierre Bonnard – Nude at the Toilet Table
Henry Clive – Sultana (approximate year)
Lovis Corinth – Ecce homo
Otto Dix – Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber
Arthur Dove – The Critic
Lyonel Feininger – Barfüßerkirche in Erfurt I (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
Rudolf Frentz – Horsewoman
George Grosz – Portrait of the Writer Max Herrmann-Neisse
Edward Hopper – The House by the Railroad
Wassily Kandinsky – Yellow-Red-Blue
Tamara de Lempicka – Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti)
Joan Miró – Head of a Catalan Peasant (sequence completed) and The Birth of the World
Hilda Rix Nicholas – Les fleurs dédaignées
Pablo Picasso – The Three Dancers
Veno Pilon – Russian Woman
Georg Schrimpf – Martha Reading a Letter
Charles Sheeler – Still Life
Alexej von Jawlensky – Abstract Head: Desire
Xu Beihong – Jiang Biwei by a table

Aaltonen works on the statue of Nurmi

1 January
- Mario Merz, Italian artist (d. 2003).
- Kossa Bokchan, Serbian painter (d. 2009).
17 January – Duane Hanson, American sculptor (d. 1996).
23 January – James Bingham, Northern Irish painter (d. 2009).
12 February – Joan Mitchell, American Abstract Expressionist painter (d. 1992).
22 February – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (d. 2000).
10 March – Ed van der Elsken, Dutch photographer (d. 1990).
13 March – Jane Bown, English portrait photographer (d. 2014).
29 March – Sava Stojkov, Serbian painter (d. 2014).
1 April – Bryan Robertson, English curator (d. 2002).
4 April – Emmett Williams, American poet and Fluxus artist (d. 2007).
29 April – Iwao Takamoto, Japanese American animator, television producer and film director (d. 2007).
16 May – Hannes Hegen, German cartoonist and illustrator (d. 2014).
22 May – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991).
23 July – Burt Glinn, American photographer (d. 2008).
26 August – Robert Colescott, American artist (d. 2009).
22 October – Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (d. 2008).
28 October – Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (d. 2006).
15 November - André Lufwa, Congolese sculptor (Batteur de tam-tam) (d. 2020).
18 December – John Szarkowski, American photographer, curator, historian and critic (d. 2007).
date unknown – Panayiotis Tetsis, Greek painter.

January 8 – George Bellows, American realist painter (b. 1882)
March 1 – Ramon Pichot, Catalan impressionist painter, mentor of Salvador Dalí (b. 1871)
March 8 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
April 14 – John Singer Sargent, expatriate American portrait painter (b. 1856)
April 25
- Emily Mary Osborn, English painter (b. 1828)
- John Quinton Pringle, Scottish painter (b. 1864)
May 2 – Jan Štursa, Czech sculptor (b. 1880)
July 17 – Lovis Corinth, German painter and printmaker (b. 1858)
July 28 – Léon Augustin Lhermitte, French genre painter (b. 1844)
August 15 – George Barbu Știrbei, Romanian patron of the arts (b. 1828)
August 21 – Karl Brendel, German schizophrenic outsider artist (b. 1871)
September 17 – Carl Eytel, German American artist (b. 1862)
September 25 – Charles Cottet, French post-impressionist painter (b. 1863)
October 21 – Heinrich von Angeli, Austrian society portrait painter (b. 1840)
November 27 – Roger de La Fresnaye, French cubist painter (b. 1885)
c. November – Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald, Irish literary biographer, drama critic and sculptor (b. 1834)
December 18 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, English figure sculptor (b. 1850)
December 29 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss French painter and graphic artist (b. 1865)
date unknown – Vladislav Titelbah, Serbian painter (b. 1847).

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