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* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )
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* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).
Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.
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* 1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India ( now India ), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6, 500 letters to Naini, about away.
These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.
File: Marie Curie c1920. png | Marie Curie ( 1867-1934 ): discovered radioactivity with Henri Becquerel and her husband Pierre Curie, awarded Nobel Prize in Physics ( 1903 ) and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry ( 1911 ), found techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, isolated plutonium and radium
The first organized group exhibition by Cubists took place at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris during the spring of 1911 in a room called ‘ Salle 41 ’; it included works by Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Robert Delaunay and Henri Le Fauconnier, yet no works by Picasso and Braque were exhibited.
Wider views of Cubism include artists who were later associated with the ‘ Salle 41 ’ artists, e. g., Francis Picabia ; the brothers Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Marcel Duchamp, who from late 1911 formed the core of the Section d ' Or ( or the Puteaux Group ); the sculptors Alexander Archipenko, Joseph Csaky and Ossip Zadkine as well as Jacques Lipchitz and Henri Laurens ; and painters such as Louis Marcoussis, Roger de La Fresnaye, František Kupka, Diego Rivera, Léopold Survage, Auguste Herbin, André Lhote, Gino Severini ( after 1916 ), María Blanchard ( after 1916 ) and Georges Valmier ( after 1918 ).
World class writers in French include the great romantic and symbolist poet Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949, Nobel Prize 1911 ), dramatists Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ) and Henri Michaux ( 1899 – 1984 ), and the poet and playwright Émile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), one of the founders of symbolism.
* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).
Her subjects included several ultimately famous personages, and her subjects provided a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons at 27 Rue de Fleurus: " Ada " ( Alice B. Toklas ), " Two Women " ( The Cone Sisters, Claribel Cone and Etta Cone ), Miss Furr and Miss Skeene ( Ethel Mars and Maud Hunt Squire ), " Men " ( Hutchins Hapgood, Peter David Edstrom, Maurice Sterne ), " Matisse " ( 1909, Henri Matisse ), " Picasso " ( 1909, Pablo Picasso ), " Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia " ( 1911, Mabel Dodge Luhan ), and " Guillaume Apollinaire " ( 1913 ).
Another silent version made in 1911 was the French production La mégère apprivoisée, directed by Henri Desfontaines and starring Romauld Joubé and Madeleine Barjac.
File: Atelier rouge matisse 1. jpg | Henri Matisse, L ' Atelier Rouge, 1911, oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm.
The Quest for Fire () is a 1911 Belgian novel by " J .- H. Rosny ", the pseudonym of two brothers ; the author was likely the elder of the two, Joseph Henri Honoré Boex ( 1856-1940 ).
Meanwhile, Wakefield built a hangar on his land at Hill of Oaks on Windermere and, following the world ’ s first successful flight from water on 28 March 1910 (" Le Canard ," designed and flown by Henri Fabre from Lac Berre near Marseille ), Wakefield ordered a floatplane of similar design, subsequently named “ Waterbird .” By November 1911, both Gnosspelier and Wakefield had aircraft capable of flight from water and awaited suitable weather conditions.
In 1911, he began a series of important conferences in physics, known as the Solvay Conferences, whose participants included luminaries such as Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré, and ( then only 32 years old ) Albert Einstein.
Henry Houssaye ( also Henri ) ( 24 February 1848 – 23 September 1911 ), was a French historian and academician.
File: Atelier rouge matisse 1. jpg | Henri Matisse, L ' Atelier Rouge, 1911, oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm., The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
* 21 May – The French Minister of War, Henri Maurice Berteaux, a spectator at the start of the 1911 Paris to Madrid air race, suffers fatal injuries when a plane crashes while attempting to take off.
In 1911, Edouard Nieuport ( 1875 – 1911 ) ( one of several brothers ) died after being thrown from his aircraft, and the company was taken over by Henri Deutsch de la Meurthe, a famous supporter of aviation development.
Henri Georges de France ( 7 September 1911 Paris – 29 April 1986 Paris ) was a pioneering French television inventor.
At the age of 25, in 1908, Hurley learned that Australian explorer Douglas Mawson was planning an expedition to Antarctica ; fellow Sydney-sider Henri Mallard in 1911, recommended Hurley for the position of official photographer to Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition, ahead of himself.
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