page_title: 1912 in art
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1912 in art / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover of Der Blaue Reiter almanac. (c. 1912)
context_page_description: The year 1912 in art involved some significant events and new works.
context_section_description: January 5 (Old Style December 23, 1911) – Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet, designed by Edward Gordon Craig, opens.
  May – The Blue Rider Almanac published in Munich, containing reproductions of more than 140 multi-ethnic artworks, articles on the visual arts and music and Vasilly Kandinsky's  experimental theater composition The Yellow Sound.
  June 26 – Austrian writer Frida Strindberg opens The Cave of the Golden Calf, a London nightclub decorated by Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Charles Ginner and Jacob Epstein with its motif by Eric Gill; it becomes a haunt of Futurists.
  July – At the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, American marksman, horse breeder and artist Walter W. Winans wins a silver medal for shooting and a gold in the sculpture category of the art competitions for his bronze statuette An American Trotter.
  December 24 – William Zorach marries Marguerite Thompson.
  In Paris, Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger publish the first major treatise on Cubism, Du "Cubisme", followed by André Salmon's La jeune peinture française including Histoire anecdotique du cubisme.
  Ludwig Meidner begins producing his "Apocalyptic Landscapes".
caption: Cover of Der Blaue Reiter Almanac
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