Address: 77 Rue Denfert Rochereau, Paris 14e

Sally Falk becomes Archipenko’s most important early collector.

Friendship with Marthe Donas

August 9 – September 6: Participates in “Exhibition of French Art 1914 - 1919,” Mansard Gallery, Heal & Son, Ltd., London.

Spends fall in Nice working on sculpto-paintings which he presents the following year at the Salon des Indépendants.

November: Marcel Duchamp brings Katherine Dreier to Archipenko’s studio.

November 24 – December 10: “Tournée de l’exposition de sculptures, sculpto-peintures, peintures, dessins de Alexandre Archipenko.” Exhibition tour (1919 - 1921) through Europe starts in Geneva, traveling locations include Zurich, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dresden, Munich, Düsseldorf, and New York.


Last Cubist group exhibition at Salon des Indépendants. Presents three sculpto-paintings: “La Femme à la toilette, Baigneuse, and Deux Femmes.

April 15 – October 31: Solo show at Venice Biennale, Russian Pavillion, “Mostra Individuale di Alexandre Archipenko”

Exhibits with La Section d’Or, in Paris, Geneva, Brussels, Rome, and Rotterdam, The Hague, Amsterdam. Dutch locations organized by Van Doesburg.


Moves to Berlin, address: Kaiserdamm 4, Berlin-Charlottenburg.

Opens art school in Berlin, also keeps his studio in Paris, at 77, rue Denfert Rochereau.

Marries Angelica Schmitz (1893 - 1957), a German sculptor who exhibits under the name Gela Forster. She is a member of “Group 1919” of the Dresdner Sezession, together with Lasar Segall, Conrad Felixmüller, Otto Dix, Christoph Voll, Ludwig Meidnerand, and Eugen Hoffmann.

Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin publishes lithograph portfolio Dreizehn Steinzeichnungen.

February 1 - March 15: First solo show in USA at the Société Anonyme, New York, organized by Katherine Dreier and Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp designs the catalog and advertising.

Publication of “Archipenko Album,” a monograph with texts by Ivan Goll and Theodor Däubler, and the poem “La Tête” by Blaise Cendrars


Takes part in “Erste Russische Kunstausstellung,” Galerie van Diemen, Berlin.

Exhibits at Galerie Fritz Gurlitt, Berlin.

May: Exhibition with Lyonel Feininger at Kunstsalon Ludwig Schames, in Frankfurt, Germany