1895 in art
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The year 1895 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- January 1 â Alphonse Mucha's lithographed poster for the play Gismonda starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris.[1] Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract.
- April 13 â The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II.
- April 30 â First Venice Biennale opens.[2]
- May 6 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1895 opens at Burlington House in London
- July 3 â Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in Polynesia.
- October â Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his Love paintings in Christiania, Norway.
- November â Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard.
- Munch (probably) writes "Could only have been painted by a madman" (Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!) on his 1893 painting The Scream.[3]
- Bernard Berenson publishes Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism.
- P. H. Emerson publishes his last photographic book, Marsh Leaves.
- M. H. de Young Memorial Museum opened in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.
Works
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- Lawrence Alma-Tadema â A Coign of Vantage
- Rodolfo Amoedo â Más NotÃcias
- Aubrey Beardsley â Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
- William Adolphe Bouguereau -The Abduction of Psyche
- John Cassidy â Statue of Edward Colston (Bristol)
- Paul Cézanne
- The Boy in the Red Vest
- Still Life with Cherub (approximate date)
- Edgar Degas
- After the Bath, Woman drying herself (probable latest date)
- Photographic self-portrait
- Thomas Eakins â Portrait of Maud Cook
- Paul Gauguin â Oviri (stoneware)
- Countess Feodora von Gleichen â Statue of Queen Victoria surrounded by children, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal
- J. W. Godward
- Mischief And Repose
- The Muse Erato At Her Lyre
- Sydney Prior Hall â Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour
- Winslow Homer
- George W. Joy
- Sir Frederic Leighton
- Candida
- Flaming June
- Lachrymae
- Listener
- The Maid with the Golden Hair
- A Study
- 'Twixt hope and fear
- Isaac Levitan â Fresh Wind. Volga
- Juan Luna
- Henry Arthur McArdle â Battle of San Jacinto
- Louis Maurer â The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt
- Gustave Moreau â Jupiter and Semele
- Edvard Munch
- After the Fall of Man (Ashes)
- Jealousy
- Madonna
- Self-Portrait with Cigarette
- Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm (lithograph)
- Roderic O'Conor â La Jeune Bretonne
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir â Gabrielle et Jean
- Tom Roberts â Bailed Up
- John Singer Sargent â Frederick Law Olmsted
- Carlos Schwabe â La mort du fossoyeur ("The Death of the Gravedigger")
- Valentin Serov â Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
- Marianne Stokes â St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
- Théophile Steinlen â Les Chanteurs des Rues
- Vardges Sureniants â Desecrated Shrine
- Dorothy Tennant â L'Amour Blessé
- James Tissot â La femme préhistorique
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec â Portrait of Oscar Wilde[4]
- Louis Tuaillon â Amazone zu Pferde (bronze equestrian statue, Berlin)
- Laurits Tuxen â The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
- John Henry Twachtman â The White Bridge (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
- Félix Vallotton â Clair de lune ("Moonlight")
- J. Alden Weir â The Ice Cutters
- W. L. Wyllie â The Opening of Tower Bridge
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Births
- January 21 â Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (died 1972)
- February 6 â Franz Radziwill, German painter (died 1983)
- March 1 â Ogura Yuki, Japanese nihonga painter (died 2000)
- March 4 â Mikuláš Galanda, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (died 1938)
- March 29 â Anne Redpath, Scottish still life painter (died 1965)
- April 7
- May 8 â Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
- June 3 â Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
- June 5 â William Roberts, British painter (died 1980)
- June 30 â Heinz Warneke, German-born American sculptor (died 1983)
- July 2 â Gen Paul, French painter and engraver (died 1975)
- July 19 â Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (died 1953)
- August 7 â Alain Saint-Ogan, French comics author and artist (died 1974)
- August 13 â Gluck, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (died 1978)
- August 17 â Talbert Abrams, American "father of aerial photography" (died 1990)
- November 1 â David Jones, British poet and painter (died 1974)
- December 26 â Jefto PeriÄ, Serbian painter (died 1967)
- date unknown
- Ilija BaÅ¡iÄeviÄ, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor Dimitrije BaÅ¡iÄeviÄ (died 1972)
- Marguerite Huré, French stained glass artist (died 1967)
Deaths
- January 5 â WÅadysÅaw PodkowiÅski, Polish painter and illustrator (born 1866)
- February 1 â Mary Thornycroft, English sculptor (born 1809)[5]
- February 8 â Jean-François Portaels, Belgian painter (born 1818)
- March 2 â Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist painter (born 1841)
- March 6 â Edwin Forbes, American landscape painter and etcher (born 1839)
- April 19 â Sir George Scharf, English art critic (born 1820)
- April 21 â Arthur Gilbert, English landscape painter (born 1819)
- May 24 â Joseph Quinaux, Belgian landscape painter (born 1822)
- September 9 â Gaetano Milanesi, Italian art historian (born 1813)
- September 21 â Silvestro Lega, Italian realist painter (born 1826)
- November 23 â Mauritz de Haas, Dutch-American marine painter (born 1832)