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1896 in art
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The year
1896 in art
involved some significant events.
Contents
Events
Works
Births
Deaths
References
Events
January 24
– Painter
Sir Frederic Leighton
is created 1st Baron Leighton in the
peerage of the United Kingdom
one day before his death in London of
angina pectoris
.
February –
Edvard Munch
moves to Paris and concentrates on printmaking.
December –
Walter Crane
publishes
Of The Decorative Illustration of Books, Old and New
(printed by the
Chiswick Press
).
A bout of
typhoid fever
puts an end to
Maurice de Vlaminck
's career as a cyclist.
William Merritt Chase
founds
Parsons The New School for Design
as the Chase School of Art in
Greenwich Village
,
New York
.
At
Giverny
Claude Monet
begins painting his
Mornings on the Seine
series, which will continue through
1897
.
Art student
Henri Matisse
visits Australian painter
John Russell
on the island of
Belle Île
off the coast of
Brittany
and is introduced to
Impressionism
and to the work of
Vincent van Gogh
.
Interior design gallery
Maison de l'
Art Nouveau
opens in Paris.
Museum of Applied Arts
,
Budapest
, designed by
Ödön Lechner
, is completed.
Max Beerbohm
publishes
Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen
in London, his first collection of drawings.
Bernard Berenson
publishes
Florentine Painters of the Renaissance
.
The
Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers
is founded.
Hubert von Herkomer
is made a
knight
in the United Kingdom.
Works
Pissarro
–
Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather
The Wave
by
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
See also:
Category:1896 sculptures
Nels N. Alling
–
Statue of George Washington
(terra cotta, Market Square,
Perth Amboy, New Jersey
)
Michael Ancher
–
A stroll on the beach
Harry Bates
– equestrian statue of
Lord Roberts
Aubrey Beardsley
– Illustrations to
Pope
's
The Rape of the Lock
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
–
The Wave
Alfred Boucher
–
Volubilis
(sculpture)
Edward Burne-Jones
(illustrations) and
William Morris
(type design and decoration) –
The Works of
Geoffrey Chaucer
, now newly imprinted
(Kelmscott Press edition)
Lovis Corinth
–
Self-portrait with skeleton
Edgar Degas
–
Bathers
(completed)
[
1
]
Paul Dubois
–
Baptism of Clovis
(sculpture in front of
Reims Cathedral
)
Thomas Eakins
–
The Pianist
Julian Fałat
–
Self-portrait with palette
Luke Fildes
–
Frederick Treves
Paul Gauguin
Bé bé
Te tamari no atua
Self-portrait "près du Golgotha"
Self-portrait for my friend Daniel
Oyez Hui Iesu
(carving)
J. W. Godward
Campaspe
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Akseli Gallen-Kallela
–
The Defense of the Sampo
Niels Hansen Jacobsen
–
Trold, der vejrer kristenblod
(sculpture)
Paja Jovanović
–
Migration of the Serbs
Fernand Khnopff
Caress of the Sphinx
[
2
]
Posthumous portrait of Marguerite Landuyt
Maximilien Luce
Le bon samaritain
Scène de rue à Paris
Juan Luna
–
Ecce Homo
Frederick McCubbin
–
On the wallaby track
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
–
Stencilled
friezes
for
Catherine Cranston
's
Buchanan Street
tearooms,
Glasgow
Konstantin Makovsky
–
Appeal of Kuzma Minin
Arturo Michelena
–
Miranda en la Carraca
Mihály Munkácsy
–
Ecce homo
Pablo Picasso
–
First Communion
Camille Pissarro
–
Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather
J. Massey Rhind
–
Erskine Memorial Fountain
Félicien Rops
–
Pornocrates
(
aquatint
)
Giovanni Segantini
–
Love at the Fountain of Life
François-Léon Sicard
–
Le Bon Samaritain
(sculpture)
Hugo Simberg
–
The Garden of Death
(
watercolor
and
gouache
,
Ateneum
,
Helsinki
)
Arthur Streeton
–
The purple noon’s transparent might
Viktor Vasnetsov
Sirin and Alkonost – Birds of Joy and Sorrow
The Temptation
(
fresco
,
St Volodymyr's Cathedral
,
Kiev
)
J. W. Waterhouse
Hylas and the Nymphs
Pandora
James McNeill Whistler
Savoy Pigeons
(
lithograph
)
The Thames
(lithotint)
Waterloo Bridge from the Savoy
Westminster from the Savoy
(
watercolor
)
Anders Zorn
–
Self-portrait with model
Births
January 4
–
André Masson
,
French
artist (died
1987
)
January 20
–
Charles E. Brown
,
English
aviation photographer (died
1982
)
January 22
–
Sava Šumanović
,
Serbian
painter (died
1942
)
April 14
–
Alfredo Volpi
, Brazilian Modernist painter (died
1988
)
July 2
Quirino Cristiani
,
Argentine
animation
director
and
cartoonist
(died
1984
)
Prudence Heward
,
Canadian
painter (died
1947
)
July 13
–
Mordecai Ardon
,
Israeli
painter (died
1992
)
August 4
–
José Fioravanti
, Argentine monumental sculptor (died
1977
)
August 14
–
Eric Grate
, Swedish sculptor, painter and graphics artist (died
1983
)
August 15
–
Paul Outerbridge
, photographer (died
1958
)
September 24
–
Camilo Mori
,
Chilean
painter (died
1973
)
November 8
–
Erika Abels d'Albert
, Austrian artist (died
1975
)
November 13
–
Ernst Thoms
, German painter (died
1983
)
December 25
–
Marion Dorn
, American-born textile designer (died
1964
)
December 31
–
Cathleen Mann
, English portrait painter and costume designer (died
1959
)
Cicely Hey
, English artist and model (died
1980
)
Deaths
January 4
–
Henri Alfred Jacquemart
, French sculptor and animalier (born
1824
)
January 15
–
Mathew Brady
, American photographer (born
1822
)
January 25
–
Frederic Leighton
, English painter and sculptor specialising in classical subjects (born
1830
)
February 5
–
Jean-Auguste Barre
, French sculptor (born
1811
)
February –
John Cooke Bourne
, English topographical artist, lithographer and photographer (born
1814
)
April 16
–
Viktor Oskar Tilgner
, Austrian sculptor (born
1844
)
May 3
–
Alfred William Hunt
, English painter (born 1830)
May 5
–
Jacob Fjelde
, Norwegian American sculptor (born
1855
)
May 15
–
Évariste Vital Luminais
, French historical painter (born
1821
)
July 7
–
Erdmann Encke
, German sculptor (born
1843
)
August 13
– Sir
John Everett Millais
, English pre-Raphaelite painter (born
1829
)
August 14
–
Olin Levi Warner
, American sculptor (born
1844
)
September 23
–
Emmanuel Benner
, French painter (born
1836
)
November 9
–
Napoleon Sarony
,
Canadian American
portrait photographer (born 1821)
References
↑
"Barnes Collection Online — Edgar Degas: Bathers"
.
↑
"Classics-Art 300 Lectures 18-19
|
Dr. David Soren, Regents Professor"
.
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