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1895 in art
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The year
1895 in art
involved some significant events.
Contents
Events
Works
Births
Deaths
References
Events
January 1
–
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
– The
Russian Museum
is established in
Saint Petersburg
by
Nicholas II
.
April 30
– First
Venice Biennale
opens.
[
2
]
July 3
–
Paul Gauguin
leaves France to settle permanently in
Polynesia
.
October –
Edvard Munch
exhibits an extended series of his
Love
paintings in
Christiania
, Norway.
November –
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
See also:
Category:1895 sculptures
Flaming June
(
Leighton
)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
–
A Coign of Vantage
Rodolfo Amoedo
–
Más Notícias
Aubrey Beardsley
–
Venus Between Terminal Gods
(ink drawing)
William Adolphe Bouguereau
-
The Abduction of Psyche
John Cassidy
–
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
–
Portrait of Maud Cook
Paul Gauguin
–
Oviri
(
stoneware
)
Countess Feodora von Gleichen
– 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
–
Joseph Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour
Winslow Homer
Cannon Rock
Northeaster
George W. Joy
The Bayswater Omnibus
Joan of Arc
Sir Frederic Leighton
Candida
Flaming June
Lachrymae
Listener
The Maid with the Golden Hair
A Study
'Twixt hope and fear
Isaac Levitan
–
Fresh Wind. Volga
Juan Luna
La Bulaqueña
Tampuhan
Henry Arthur McArdle
–
Battle of San Jacinto
Louis Maurer
–
The Great Royal Buffalo Hunt
Gustave Moreau
–
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
–
La Jeune Bretonne
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
–
Gabrielle et Jean
Tom Roberts
–
Bailed Up
John Singer Sargent
–
Frederick Law Olmsted
Carlos Schwabe
–
La mort du fossoyeur
("The Death of the Gravedigger")
Valentin Serov
–
Portrait of Countess Varvara Musina-Pushkina
Marianne Stokes
–
St. Elizabeth of Hungary Spinning for the Poor
Théophile Steinlen
–
Les Chanteurs des Rues
Vardges Sureniants
–
Desecrated Shrine
Dorothy Tennant
–
L'Amour Blessé
James Tissot
–
La femme préhistorique
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
–
Portrait of Oscar Wilde
[
4
]
Louis Tuaillon
–
Amazone zu Pferde
(bronze equestrian statue, Berlin)
Laurits Tuxen
–
The Wedding of Tsar Nicholas II
John Henry Twachtman
–
The White Bridge
(
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
)
Félix Vallotton
–
Clair de lune
("Moonlight")
J. Alden Weir
–
The Ice Cutters
W. L. Wyllie
–
The Opening of Tower Bridge
Births
January 21
–
Cristóbal Balenciaga
, Spanish
fashion designer
(died
1972
)
February 6
–
Franz Radziwill
, German painter (died
1983
)
March 1
–
Ogura Yuki
, Japanese nihonga painter (died
2000
)
March 4
–
Mikuláš Galanda
, Slovak modernist painter and illustrator (died
1938
)
March 29
–
Anne Redpath
, Scottish still life painter (died
1965
)
April 7
Jim Ede
,
English
art collector (died
1990
)
John Bernard Flannagan
,
American
sculptor (suicide
1942
)
May 8
–
Georg Muche
, German painter (died
1987
)
June 3
–
Frank McKelvey
, Irish painter (died
1974
)
June 5
–
William Roberts
, British painter (died
1980
)
June 30
–
Heinz Warneke
, German-born American sculptor (died
1983
)
July 2
–
Gen Paul
, French painter and engraver (died
1975
)
July 19
–
Xu Beihong
, Chinese painter (died
1953
)
August 7
–
Alain Saint-Ogan
,
French comics
author and
artist
(died
1974
)
August 13
–
Gluck
, born Hannah Gluckstein, English painter (died
1978
)
August 17
–
Talbert Abrams
, American "father of aerial photography" (died
1990
)
November 1
–
David Jones
, British poet and painter (died
1974
)
December 26
– Jefto Perić,
Serbian
painter (died
1967
)
date unknown
Ilija Bašičević
, Serbian painter and father of painter-sculptor
Dimitrije Bašičević
(died
1972
)
Marguerite Huré
, French stained glass artist (died
1967
)
Deaths
January 5
–
Władysław Podkowiński
, Polish painter and illustrator (born
1866
)
February 1
–
Mary Thornycroft
, English sculptor (born
1809
)
[
5
]
February 8
–
Jean-François Portaels
, Belgian painter (born
1818
)
March 2
–
Berthe Morisot
, French Impressionist painter (born
1841
)
March 6
–
Edwin Forbes
, American landscape painter and etcher (born
1839
)
April 19
–
Sir George Scharf
, English art critic (born
1820
)
April 21
–
Arthur Gilbert
, English landscape painter (born
1819
)
May 24
–
Joseph Quinaux
, Belgian landscape painter (born
1822
)
September 9
–
Gaetano Milanesi
, Italian art historian (born
1813
)
September 21
–
Silvestro Lega
, Italian realist painter (born
1826
)
November 23
–
Mauritz de Haas
, Dutch-American marine painter (born
1832
)
References
↑
Johnston, Ian (March 2004).
"An Introduction to the Work of Alphonse Mucha and Art Nouveau"
. Nanaimo:
Malaspina University-College
. Archived from
the original
on 2016-04-16
. Retrieved
2012-05-17
.
↑
"La Biennale – From the beginnings until the Second World War"
. Venice: La Biennale. Archived from
the original
on 2013-05-30
. Retrieved
2013-08-18
.
↑
"Could only have been painted by a madman"
. National Museum of Norway. 2021
. Retrieved
2021-02-22
.
↑
Kennedy, Maev
(2000-11-10).
"Toulouse-Lautrec portrait of Oscar Wilde resurfaces"
.
The Guardian
. London
. Retrieved
2012-06-18
.
↑
"Mary Thornycroft (née Francis) - Person Extended"
.
npg.org.uk
. Retrieved
25 March
2019
.
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