1897 in art
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The year 1897 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- February 18 â Conclusion of the Benin Expedition of 1897, leading to the Benin Bronzes being carried off to London.
- April 3 â Vienna Secession founded by artists including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil. Secession hall designed by Olbrich.
- May 1 â Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum opened in Copenhagen.
- May 27 â A Separate Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture (Wystawa osobna obrazów i rzeźb)[1] is staged at Sukiennice Museum in Main Square, Kraków.[2]
- August 4 â The "Lady of Elche" Iberian sculpture (4th century BCE) is found at L'Alcúdia near Elche in Spain.
- September â Edvard Munch stages a major retrospective in Christiania.
- October 27 â First meeting of the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" in Kraków.[3]
- At Giverny, Claude Monet begins painting his Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.
- Elbridge Ayer Burbank begins painting portraits of Native Americans in the United States from life.
- Women photographers Zaida Ben-Yusuf and Gertrude Käsebier open portrait studios in New York City.
Publications
- A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley is published.[4]
- Vingt Dessins 1861â1896, a collection of prints by Edgar Degas.[5]
- Bernard Berenson publishes Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
Works
- Edwin Austin Abbey â The Play Scene in Hamlet
- Philip Burne-Jones â The Vampire
- Georges Clairin â Sarah Bernhardt as the Queen in 'Ruy Blas'
- Herbert James Draper â Pot Pourri
- Roberto Ferruzzi â Madonnina
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela â Lemminkäinen's Mother
- Paul Gauguin â Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- Ogata GekkÅ â Ryu sho ten (published 1898)
- J. W. Godward â Dolce far Niente (first version)
- Jean-Jacques Henner â Portrait of Mlle Fouquier
- Jacek Malczewski â Vicious Circle
- Claude Monet
- Edvard Munch â The Kiss
- Camille Pissarro
- Maurice Prendergast â Summer Visitors
- Henri Rousseau â The Sleeping Gypsy
- John Singer Sargent â Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes
- Rudolf Siemering â Washington Monument, Philadelphia[6]
- Henryk Siemiradzki â A Christian Dirce
- Douglas Tilden â Admission Day Monument, San Francisco
- Vasily Vereshchagin â Napoleon near Borodino
- Arthur Wardle â The Totteridge XI
- Painters under the direction of Jan Styka â Transylvania Panorama (Lwów)
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Births
- January 9 â Tyra Lundgren, Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (died 1979)[7]
- January 17 â Charles Ragland Bunnell, American painter (died 1968)
- January 21 â René Iché, French sculptor (died 1954)
- March 16 â Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (died 1963)
- May 2 â Adolf HyÅa, Polish painter and art teacher (died 1965)
- May 21 â Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (died 1945)
- June 3 â Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-born graphic artist (died 1960)
- June 22 â Albert Renger-Patzsch, German photographer (died 1966)
- June 26 â Victor Servranckx, Belgian painter (died 1965)
- August 19 â Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (died 1990)[8]
- September 23 â Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (died 1994)[9]
- October 27 â Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (died 1992)
- November 5 â Hilda VÄ«ka, Latvian painter (died 1963)
Deaths
- February 7 â Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (born 1816)
- February 9 â George Price Boyce, English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (born 1826)[10]
- March 21 â Ädams Alksnis, Latvian painter (born 1864)
- May 20 â Jacques Ãmile Ãdouard Brandon, French artist (born 1831)
- June 7 â Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (born 1809)
- September 8 â James Milo Griffith, Welsh sculptor (born 1843)[11]
- September 20 â Louis Pierre Mouillard, French artist and aviation pioneer (born 1834)[12]
- October 5 â Sir John Gilbert, English painter (born 1817)[13]
- October 8 â Alexei Savrasov, Russian landscape painter (born 1830)
- November 18 â Henry Doulton, English potter (born 1820)[14]
- November 29 â Félix Pissarro, French-born painter, TB (born 1874)
- December 30 â Edward La Trobe Bateman, English-born Pre-Raphaelite watercolour painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer (born 1816)[15]
- date unknown â Jang Seung-eop ('Owon'), Korean painter (born 1843)[16]