Art competitions were held as part of the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Medals were awarded in five categories (architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture), for works inspired by sport-related themes.
The art exhibition was held at the Stedelijk Museum from 12 June to 12 August, and displayed 1150 works of art from 18 countries. Additionally, the literature competition attracted 40 entries from 10 countries, and the music competition had 22 entries from 9 countries. Contestants at the Amsterdam Olympics were given the opportunity for the first time to list their works of art as available for sale, though no mention of price or sales were permitted at the exhibitions.
The art competitions at the 1928 Games were larger in scope than for previous Games. Instead of a single competition in each of the five artistic categories, awards were presented in multiple subcategories. The judges of the music competition declined to award any medals in two of the three subcategories, and only presented a single bronze medal in the third.
Art competitions were part of the Olympic program from 1912 to 1948. At a meeting of the International Olympic Committee in 1949, it was decided to hold art exhibitions instead, as it was judged illogical to permit professionals to compete in the art competitions while only amateurs were permitted to compete in sporting events. Since 1952, a non-competitive art and cultural festival has been associated with each Game.
Architecture Architectural designOlympic Stadium at AmsterdamSwimming pool at OllerupStadium at VersaillesTown planningStadium at NurembergStadium at VersaillesMunicipal Park at Hamburg
Literature Lyric works"Laur Olimpijski""Reitvorschrift für eine Geliebte""Symphonia Heroica"Dramatic worksnone awarded"Icarus"none awardedEpic works"L'histoire des Jeux Olympiques""Boetius von Orlamünde""De Nar uit de Maremmen"
Music Songnone awardednone awardednone awardedOne instrumentnone awardednone awardednone awardedOrchestranone awardednone awarded"Symphony No. 2 Hellas"
Painting Paintings"Cavalier Rouge""Boxeurs""Patinage"Drawings"Rugby""Gestes de Football""Archer"Graphic works"Un Almanach de douze Sports""Athletics Poster""Mailcoach"
Sculpture Statues"Boxeur""Athlète au repos""Footballeur"Reliefs and medallionsMédaillesMédaille pour les Jeux OlympiquesPlaquette
Medal table At the time, medals were awarded to these artists, but art competitions are no longer regarded as official Olympic events by the International Olympic Committee. These events do not appear in the IOC medal database, and these totals are not included in the IOC's medal table for the 1928 Games.
Events summary Architecture Designs for Town Planning
The following architects took part: Rank Name Country 1 Alfred Hensel 2 Jacques Lambert 3 Max Laeuger
Architectural Designs
The following architects took part: Rank Name Country 1 Jan Wils 2 Ejnar Mindedal Rasmussen 3 Jacques Lambert
Further entries
The following architects took part: Rank Name Country AC Adolf Abel AC Hermann Alker AC Max Bromme AC Heinrich de Fries AC Karl Hoffmann AC Hans Hohloch AC Richard Konwiarz AC Otto Linne AC Werner March AC Emil Pohle AC Georg Holke AC Hubert Ritter AC Balduin Schilling AC Paul Wolf AC Ernst Stahl AC Emil Hoppe AC Jean Noé AC Axel Høeg-Hansen AC Niels Knudsen AC Frits Schlegel AC Arthur Wittmaack Rank Name Country AC Ralph Cram AC Delano & Aldrich AC Holabird & Roche AC Albert Kahn AC Charles Klauder AC Lockwood, Greene & Co. AC Benjamin Marshall AC Proudfoot, Rawson & Souers AC Rebori, Wentworth & Dewey AC Horace Trumbauer AC Zantzinger, Borie & Medary AC Léopold Bévière AC Louis Bonnier AC Georges Fauvelle AC Jacques Lambert AC Paul Marozeau AC Louis Rey AC Pierre Souziff AC Guillaume Tronchet AC Alfréd Hajós AC Ottorino Aloisio Rank Name Country AC Duilio Torres AC Oscar Prati AC Paolo Vietti Violi AC Michel Ravarino AC Ole Sverre AC Henri-Robert von der Mühll AC Jadwiga Dobrzyńska AC Zygmunt Łoboda AC Leon Suzin AC Mieczysław Łęczycki AC Józef Łęczycki AC Ludwik Oli AC Edgar Norwerth AC Erwin Barth AC Fernando Biscaccianti AC Ministero della Guerra AC Karl Pregizer AC Hermann Dieter AC Otto Schönthal AC Constantin Krage AC Frederik Hvalsøe
Literature Dramatic works
The following writers took part: Rank Name Country 1 Not awarded 2 Lauro De Bosis 3 Not awarded AC Plus que de Raison AC Henri van Wermeskerken AC Louis Grivel AC Voittout
Epic works
The following writers took part: Rank Name Country 1 Ferenc Mező 2 Ernst Weiß 3 Margo Scharten-Antink, Carel Scharten AC Theodor Mayer AC Willy Meisl AC Arthur Steiner AC Maurice Carême AC Edvard Nielsen-Stevns AC Kasimir Edschmid AC Hermann Roßmann AC Dezső Király AC Henriëtte Laman Trip-de Beaufort AC Louis Grivel AC Voittout
The following writers took part: Rank Name Country 1 Kazimierz Wierzyński 2 Rudolf Binding 3 Johannes Weltzer AC H. J. Ken AC Willy Meisl AC Ludwig Valentich AC Tony Schaller AC Maurice Verdonck AC Het Lichtet Overal AC Aage Hermann AC Émile Moussat AC Et quasi cursores vitaï lampada tradunt AC Gerhart Drabsch AC Karl Schenk AC Bruno Fattori AC Edward Koster AC Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer AC Willy Favez AC Voittout
Music Compositions for orchestra
The following composers took part: Rank Name Country 1 not awarded 2 not awarded 3 Rudolph Simonsen AC L. Vandeput AC Knudåge Riisager AC Marc-César Scotto AC Jacques Jansen AC Kazimierz Kresowiak AC Alexandre Dénéréaz AC B. Bosserdet AC IXe Olympiade Amsterdam
Compositions for solo or chorus
The following composers took part: Rank Name Country 1 not awarded 2 not awarded 3 not awarded AC Chant Olympique AC Peter Schmitz AC Jan Andenne AC Marius Ulfrstad AC Roger Moret
Compositions for instrumental and chamber
The following composers took part: Rank Name Country 1 not awarded 2 not awarded 3 not awarded AC Sijoma AC Marius Ulfrstad AC Simon Frey AC Roger Moret AC IXe Olympiade Amsterdam
Painting Drawings and water colours
The following painters took part: Rank Name Country 1 Jean Jacoby 2 Alex Virot 3 Władysław Skoczylas AC Artur Brusenbauch AC Erwin Lang AC Willia Menzel AC Alfred Schuermans AC Lucienne Pageot-Rousseaux AC Maxwell Ayrton AC Henry Bateman AC Lewis Baumer AC George Belcher AC Cecil Ross Burnett AC Lionel Edwards AC David Ghilchik AC Frank Gillett AC Reginald Higgins AC Cecil King Rank Name Country AC Tom Purvis AC Frank Reynolds AC E. H. Shepard AC Charles Simpson AC George Stampa AC Anton van Anrooy AC Leonard Walker AC Ludwig von Hofmann AC Willy Jaeckel AC Rudolf Koch AC Emil Rudolf Weiss AC Tibor Gergely AC Kathleen Bridle AC Lilian Davidson AC Harry Kernoff AC Edward Louis Lawrenson AC Stella Steyn AC Friedrich Baur Rank Name Country AC Cees Bolding AC David Bueno de Mesquita AC Geert Grauss AC Felix Hess AC Willy Sluiter AC Jan Sluijters AC Jelle Troelstra AC Bertha van Hasselt AC Jaap Weyand AC Michał Boruciński AC Stanisław Noakowski AC Wacław Piotrowski AC William Aldrich AC Louis Bonniot de Fleurac AC Gaboriau AC Juillerat AC Maurice Pellerier AC Georges Scott
Graphic arts
The following painters took part: Rank Name Country 1 William Nicholson 2 Carl Moos 3 Max Feldbauer AC John Platt AC Gerald Spencer Pryse AC Steven Spurrier AC Norman Wilkinson AC Ernst Aufseeser AC Ernst Böhm AC Fritz Heinsheimer Rank Name Country AC Hanns Hoyer AC Walther Klemm AC Max Slevogt AC Arthur Wellmann AC Max Liebermann AC Anton Versluijs AC Aleksander Kłopotowski AC Maria Brodacka AC Maria Dunin AC Janina Kaczkowska Rank Name Country AC Leonia Nadelman AC Wanda Pleszczyńska AC Stanisław Prauss AC Władysław Skoczylas AC Bolesław Surałło AC Eduard Büsser AC Jean Raoul Chaurand-Naurac AC Maurice Ménardeau AC Elie de la Morinière
Paintings
The following painters took part: Rank Name Country 1 Isaac Israëls 2 Laura Knight 3 Walther Klemm AC Ludwig Graf AC Ernst Huber AC Ferdinand Kitt AC Erwin Lang AC Sergius Pauser AC Heinrich Révy AC Lilly Steiner AC Ludwig Wieden AC Georg Mayer-Marton AC Joseph Dierickx AC Joe Bridge AC Jane Deley AC Édouard Fraisse AC Charles Kiffer-Porte AC Lucienne Pageot-Rousseaux AC Georges Rasetti AC Edgar Seligman AC Anna Airy AC Denholm Armour AC Arthur Burgess AC Charles Cundall AC Harold Knight AC Maurice Lambert AC John Lavery AC Alfred Munnings AC William Nicholson AC Charles Pears AC Gerald Spencer Pryse AC Walter Russell AC Charles Simpson AC Harold Speed AC Anton van Anrooy AC Leonard Walker AC George Watson AC William Orpen AC August Babberger AC Willi Baumeister AC Erich Büttner AC Theo Champion AC Max Clarenbach AC Otto Dill AC Georg Gelbke AC George Grosz AC Erich Heckel AC Franz Heckendorf Rank Name Country AC Fritz Heinsheimer AC Ludwig von Hofmann AC Eduard Hopf AC Willy Jaeckel AC Ernst Oppler AC Paul Paeschke AC Max Slevogt AC Gertraud Stemmler AC Gert Wollheim AC Lenigret Mallwitz AC Wolf Röhricht AC Tibor Gergely AC Kathleen Bridle AC Lilian Davidson AC Mainie Jellett AC Seán Keating AC Harry Kernoff AC Dermod O'Brien AC Ferruccio Pasqui AC Konstantīns Visotskis AC Jean Jacoby AC Ángel Zárraga AC Auguste Philippe Marocco AC Lizzy Ansingh AC Rie de Balbian Verster-Bolderheij AC Ed Gerdes AC Geert Grauss AC Engelina Hameetman-Schlette AC Otto Hanrath AC Chris Huidekooper AC Jan Kleintjes AC Cornelis Kloos AC Harrie Kuyten AC Thies Luijt AC Henri MacLean AC Kees Maks AC Martin Monnickendam AC Albert Mulder AC Nicolaas Pieneman AC David Schulman AC Jos Seckel AC Jan Sluijters AC Coba Surie AC Bern van Beek AC Piet van den Bergh AC Nicolaas van der Waay AC Gerrit van Duffelen AC Kees van Waning Rank Name Country AC Adriaan van 't Hoff AC Gerard Westermann AC Jaap Weyand AC Leon Dołżycki AC Włastimil Hofmann AC Władysław Jarocki AC Zygmunt Kamiński AC Wojciech Kossak AC Roman Kramsztyk AC Wacław Piotrowski AC Zygmunt Rozwadowski AC Kazimierz Sichulski AC Władysław Skoczylas AC Ludomir Sleńdziński AC Jerzy Zaruba AC Irving Couse AC Walter Granville-Smith AC Childe Hassam AC Hunt Diederich AC John Johansen AC Hayley Lever AC Jonas Lie AC Patrick O'Connor AC Roderic O'Connor AC Carl Rungius AC Eugen Weisz AC Charles Morris Young AC Henri Barnoin AC Eugène Delécluse AC Louis Denis-Valvérane AC Raoul du Gardier AC Gaston Gélibert AC F. Gras AC Paul Jobert AC R. Laisné AC Rémy Landeau AC Louis Malespina AC Henry Malfroy AC Auguste Matisse AC Maurice Ménardeau AC Elie de la Morinière AC Daniel Octobre AC René Quillivic AC Albert Fernand-Renault AC Alphonse Roubichou AC Gustave Salgé AC Charles Martin-Sauvaigo AC Henri Zo
Sculpture Medals and Reliefs
The following sculptors took part: Rank Name Country 1 Edwin Grienauer 2 Chris van der Hoef 3 Edwin Scharff AC Pierre de Soete AC Oskar Gloeckler AC Ernst Gorsemann AC Kurt Harald Isenstein AC Richard Langer AC Waldemar Raemisch AC Hans Schwegerle AC Elisabeth von Esseö AC Theodor von Gosen AC Josef Wackerle AC Richard Scheibe AC Giuseppe Cassioli AC Leen Bolle AC Władysław Gruberski AC Josef Büsser AC Samuel Henchoz AC André Pettineroli AC James Fraser AC Henri Dropsy AC Édouard Fraisse
Statues
The following sculptors took part: