Marcel Duchamp

1887 to 1968 9 documented presences 7 places

Quo Fuit places 9 dated presences for Marcel Duchamp across 7 places, from 1904 to 1968. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA

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Where Marcel Duchamp was documented, and when

1904 to 1905period

Académie Julianattested “He studied art at the Académie Julian from 1904 to 1905, but preferred playing billiards to attending classes, and the Académie Julian was one of several "independent" academies that sprang up in reaction to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1904 to 1905period

Ecole des Beaux-Artsattested “He studied art at the Académie Julian from 1904 to 1905, but preferred playing billiards to attending classes, and the Académie Julian was one of several "independent" academies that sprang up in reaction to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1915year

United Statesattested “After immigrating to the United States in 1915, he began work on the piece, financed by the support of the Arensbergs.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1915year

New Yorkattested “To his surprise, he found he was a celebrity when he arrived in New York in 1915, where he quickly befriended art patron Katherine Dreier and artist Man Ray.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1918year

Buenos Airesattested “In 1918, Duchamp took leave of the New York art scene, interrupting his work on the Large Glass, and went to Buenos Aires, where he remained for nine months and often played chess.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1919 to 1920period

United Statesattested “He moved to Paris in 1919, and then back to the United States in 1920.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1919 to 1920period

Parisattested “He moved to Paris in 1919, and then back to the United States in 1920.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1923year

Parisattested “Upon his return to Paris in 1923, Duchamp was, in essence, no longer a practicing artist.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

2 October 1968exact date

Neuilly-sur-Seineattested “Duchamp died suddenly and peacefully in the early morning of 2 October 1968 at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

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Places Marcel Duchamp is documented in

Paris2 presences · 1919 to 1923 United States2 presences · 1915 to 1919 Buenos Aires1 presence · 1918 Neuilly-sur-Seine1 presence · 1968 New York1 presence · 1915

Académie Julian1 presence · 1904

Ecole des Beaux-Arts1 presence · 1904

Other places tied to Marcel Duchamp in the record

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1883 to 1893period

Parismentioned “This work was certainly exhibited at the Incoherents exhibitions in Paris between 1883 and 1893.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1905year

Rouenmentioned “In 1905, Duchamp began his compulsory military service with the 39th Infantry Regiment, working for a printer in Rouen.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

September 1911month

Parismentioned “Duchamp and Picabia first met in September 1911 at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, where they were both exhibiting.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1912year

Munichmentioned “which advances no formal theories, but just keeps saying that the ego is always there in everything." While in Munich in 1912, he painted the last of his Cubist-like paintings.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1912year

Jura mountainsmentioned “Toward the end of 1912, he traveled with Picabia, Apollinaire and Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia through the Jura mountains, an adventure that Buffet-Picabia described as one of their "forays of demoralization, which were also forays of wittic…” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1913year

New Yorkmentioned “Duchamp later submitted the painting to the 1913 "Armory Show" in New York City.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1913year

New York Citymentioned “Duchamp later submitted the painting to the 1913 "Armory Show" in New York City.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1914year

New Yorkmentioned “The later more figurative machine painting of 1914, Chocolate Grinder (Broyeuse de chocolat), prefigures the mechanism incorporated into the Large Glass on which he began work in New York the following year.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

August 1914month

Parismentioned “However, initially, the wheel was simply placed in the studio to create atmosphere: "I enjoyed looking at it just as I enjoy looking at the flames dancing in a fireplace." After World War I started in August 1914, with his brothers and m…” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1915 to 1923period

Buenos Airesmentioned “Duchamp worked on his complex Futurism-inspired piece The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) from 1915 to 1923, except for periods in Buenos Aires and Paris in 1918–1920.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1916year

Zürichmentioned “It began in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1916, and spread to Berlin shortly thereafter.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1916year

Berlinmentioned “It began in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1916, and spread to Berlin shortly thereafter.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1941year

Floridamentioned “Duchamp said in an interview, "You think you're doing something entirely your own, and a year later you look at it and you see actually the roots of where your art comes from without your knowing it at all." The Pérez Art Museum Miami, i…” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1942year

New Yorkmentioned “In 1942, for the First Papers of Surrealism show in New York, surrealists called on Duchamp to design the exhibition.” source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1947year

Parismentioned source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1963year

Pasadena Art Museummentioned source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

1967year

Rouenmentioned source: Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

Documented at the same place, the same year

David Ben-GurionNew York · 1915 Helena RubinsteinNew York · 1915 Selman WaksmanUnited States · 1915 Edgard VarèseUnited States · 1915 Pierre SchaefferNeuilly-sur-Seine · 1968 Marine Le PenNeuilly-sur-Seine · 1968 Ernest HemingwayUnited States · 1919 Edward VIIIUnited States · 1919 Albert I of BelgiumUnited States · 1919 Ezra PoundUnited States · 1919 Éamon de ValeraUnited States · 1919 Raymond A. SpruanceUnited States · 1919

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Sources

Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp

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