1895 in art
The year 1895 in art involved some significant events.
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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.
- 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
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- Lawrence Alma-Tadema – A Coign of Vantage
- Aubrey Beardsley – Venus Between Terminal Gods (ink drawing)
- 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
- 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 – Fresh Wind. Volga
- Juan Luna
- 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
- May 8 – Georg Muche, German painter (died 1987)
- June 3 – Frank McKelvey, Irish painter (died 1974)
- June 5 – William Roberts, British painter (died 1980)
- 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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