Background image credit: Alvin Langdon Coburn, English, 1882-1966, b. United States. Vortograph, 1917, Gelatin silver print. Image: 10 7/8 x 8 inches. Framed: 25 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches. Gift of Hallmark Cards, Inc., 2005.27.3920
1905-10-17 02:30:05
German Expressionist artist group, Die Brücke (The Bridge), forms in Dresden, Germany
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1907-03-01 00:00:00
American artist Alfred Stieglitz photographs "Steerage"
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1907-10-01 09:15:48
Cubism, an art movement that represented the world from multiple perspectives, emerges in Paris
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1909-03-24 01:17:25
Sigmund Freud lectures in the United States on psychoanalysis
This psychological theory would later influence many modern artists.
1909-11-05 09:15:48
"Futurist Manifesto" authored, defines the art movement that values speed, aggression and vitality in the modern age
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1912-01-03 16:49:42
French artist Georges Braque creates "Cubist Still Life II"
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1914-01-01 08:49:48
Italian composer Luigi Russolo creates “The Awakening of a City,” a noise-based work
A portion of this composition is present in the exhibition "WWI and the Rise of Modernism."
1914-06-10 17:34:49
War erupts
Alliances activated. Nations divide into Allied and Central Powers. Allied Powers: Great Britain, France, Russia, later Japan, Italy and Portugal. Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and later Bulgaria.
1914-10-01 17:39:24
A “Race to the Sea” occurs from September to October
Each side attempts to reach the North Sea first; Germans advance toward Dunkirk and Calais, encounter British troops at Ypres, Belgium
1915-01-01 17:39:24
American artist Marsden Hartley completes "Himmel" in Berlin
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1915-05-01 08:49:48
Canadian writer and military doctor John McCrae pens “In Flanders Fields”
Read the full text at Poets.org: http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/flanders-fields
1915-07-15 13:46:53
German U-Boat (submarine) sinks the Lusitania passenger vessel
Attack kills 1,198 British and American civilians on May 7
1915-12-01 17:39:24
French artist Claude Monet begins painting "Water Lilies"
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1916-03-01 04:46:59
Over 700,000 French and German casualties in the Battle of Verdun in February-December
This work is part of the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1916-08-04 19:01:58
English composer Gustav Holst completes "The Planets" symphony
A portion of the first movement of this symphony, "Mars: Bringer of War," is playing in the exhibition "World War I and the Rise of Modernism."
1916-11-01 19:01:58
English Poet Robert Graves writes “The Trenches (Heard in the Ranks)”
Read the full text at the First World War Poetry Digital Archive (University of Oxford): http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/3464?CISOBOX=1&REC=1