21st Venice Biennale
GenreArt exhibition
Begins1938
Ends1938
Location(s)Venice
CountryItaly
Previous event20th Venice Biennale (1936)
Next event22nd Venice Biennale (1940)

The 21st Venice Biennale, held in 1938, was an exhibition of international contemporary art, with 18 participating nations.[1] The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Winners of the Gran Premi (Grand Prize) included Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga, Swiss sculptor Herman Hubacher, British etcher Blair Hughes-Stanton, and Italians painter Felice Casorati, sculptor Venanzio Crocetti, and etcher Mario Delitala.[2]

References

  1. ^ Di Martino 2005, p. 126.
  2. ^ Di Martino 2005, p. 132.

Bibliography

  • Di Martino, Enzo (2005). The History of the Venice Biennale 1895–2005. Venice: Papiro Arte. ISBN 978-88-901104-4-3. OCLC 62237064.

Further reading

  • Frost, Rosamund (September 1938). "Internationalists in Venice; art of a peaceful Europe in a great biennial show". ARTnews. 36: 7. ISSN 0004-3273 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Lemonnier, M. (July 8, 1938). "La biennale de Venise". Beaux-Arts; Chronique des Arts et de la Curiosité (in French): 3 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Maraini, Y. (August 1938). "Art in Italy—the Venice biennial". London Studio. 16: 127 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Marchiori, Giuseppe (June 1938). "La ventunesima biennale veneziana". Emporium. (in Italian). 87: 284–318 – via EBSCOhost.
  • Rüdiger, Wilhelm (August 1938). "XXI. biennale, Venedig 1938". Die Kunst (in German). 77: 328–344. ISSN 0341-1974 – via EBSCOhost.
  • "Venice biennial". Art Digest. 12: 13. May 1938 – via EBSCOhost.
  • "Where Il Duce once walked bare-foot; prints in the Venice biennial". Art Digest. 13: 24. October 1938 – via EBSCOhost.


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