1880 in art
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Events
- Vincent van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
begins his career as a professional painter. - Anton MauveAnton MauveAnthonij Rudolf Mauve was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. He was a very significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.Most of Mauve's work depicts people and animals in...
paints Changing Pasture: His palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van GoghVincent van GoghVincent Willem van Gogh , and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: , with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is...
. - Michael Peter AncherMichael Peter AncherMichael Peter Ancher was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists.-Background:Michael Peter Ancher was born at Rutsker on...
marries fellow painter Anna Kirstine BrøndumAnna AncherAnna Ancher was a Danish artist associated with the Skagen Painters, an artists' colony in the very north of Jutland.-Background:...
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Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Henri Lucien DoucetHenri Lucien DoucetHenri Lucien Doucet was a French figure and portrait painter, born in Paris, where he studied under Lefebvre and Boulanger, and in 1880 won the Prix de Rome. His pictures are usually piquant, sparkling representations of modern life, eminently Parisian in style, but the audacious realism of his...
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- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher.
Works
- Marie BashkirtseffMarie BashkirtseffMarie Bashkirtseff was a Ukrainian-born diarist, painter and sculptor....
- Self-portrait - Arnold BöcklinArnold BöcklinArnold Böcklin was a Swiss symbolist painter.-Life and art:He was born at Basel. His father, Christian Frederick Böcklin , was descended from an old family of Schaffhausen, and engaged in the silk trade. His mother, Ursula Lippe, was a native of the same city...
- Isle of the DeadIsle of the Dead (painting)Isle of the Dead is the best known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin . Prints of the work were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century — Vladimir Nabokov observed that they were to be "found in every Berlin home." Freud, Lenin, and Clemenceau all had prints of it...
- Alexandre CabanelAlexandre CabanelAlexandre Cabanel was a French painter.- Biography :Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well known as a portrait painter...
- Phèdre - Daniel HuntingtonDaniel HuntingtonDaniel Huntington , American artist, was born in New York City, New York, the son of Benjamin Huntington, Jr. and Faith Trumbull Huntington; his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Huntington, delegate at the Second Continental Congress and First U.S. Representative from Connecticut...
- Portrait of John Adams DixJohn Adams DixJohn Adams Dix was an American politician from New York. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. Senator, and the 24th Governor of New York. He was also a Union major general during the Civil War.-Early life and career:... - Adolph Alphonse de Neuville - The Defence of Rorke's Drift
Births
- February 8 - Franz MarcFranz MarcFranz Marc was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of the German Expressionist movement...
, artist, co-founder: Blauer Reiter (d. 19161916 in art-Events:* February 9 - 6.00 p.m. - Tristan Tzara "founds" Dadaism * May 20 - Boy with Baby Carriage is Norman Rockwell's first cover for The Saturday Evening Post...
) - March 21 - Hans HofmannHans HofmannHans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.-Biography:Hofmann was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880, the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. When he was six he moved with his family to Munich...
, abstract expressionist painter, teacher, (d. 19661966 in art-Events:*The Hairy Who, a group of surrealist iconoclasts later called the Chicago Imagists, first exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. They will be the most important art movement to come out of Chicago in the 1960s....
) - April 7 - Alexander BogomazovAlexander BogomazovAlexander or Oleksandr Bogomazov was Ukrainian painter, known artist and modern art theoretician of Russian Avant-garde . In 1914 Alexander wrote his treatise The Art of Painting and the Elements...
, UkrainianUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, known artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and modern artArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
theoreticianTheoryThe English word theory was derived from a technical term in Ancient Greek philosophy. The word theoria, , meant "a looking at, viewing, beholding", and referring to contemplation or speculation, as opposed to action...
of Russian avant-gardeRussian avant-gardeThe Russian avant-garde is an umbrella term used to define the large, influential wave of modern art that flourished in Russia approximately 1890 to 1930 - although some place its beginning as early as 1850 and its end as late as 1960...
(d. 19301930 in art-Events:*Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.*Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Pots*Patrick Henry Bruce - Peinture...
) - May 6 - Ernst Ludwig KirchnerErnst Ludwig KirchnerErnst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or "The Bridge", a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th century art. He volunteered for army service in the First World War, but soon suffered a...
, expressionist painter, (d. 19381938 in art-Events:* Albert Namatjira exhibition in Melbourne includes over 2,000 works.* American art collector Louis J. Caldor 'discovers' Grandma Moses.-Paintings:*Rita Angus - Head of a Maori Boy*William Coldstream - Bolton*Arthur Dove - Swing Music...
) - June 10 - André DerainAndré DerainAndré Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.-Early years:...
, painter, (d. 19541954 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP-Works:*Francis Bacon - Figure with Meat *John Brack - The bar *Franz Kline - Painting No 2 The Museum of Modern Art...
) - August 2 - Arthur DoveArthur DoveArthur Garfield Dove was an American artist. An early American modernist, he is often considered the first American abstract painter.-Youth and education:...
, painter, (d. 19461946 in art-Events:*The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.-Works:*George Ault - Bright Light at Russell's Corners*Francis Bacon**Painting ...
) - August 22 - George HerrimanGeorge HerrimanGeorge Joseph Herriman was an American cartoonist, best known for his classic comic strip Krazy Kat.-Early life:...
, cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (d. 19441944 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Joshua Smith - Hon Sol Rosevear, MHR, Speaker of the House of Representatives-Paintings:*Francis Bacon - Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion*William Coldstream - Casualty Reception Station, Capua...
) - November 19 - Jacob EpsteinJacob EpsteinSir Jacob Epstein KBE was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter...
, sculptor, (d. 19591959 in art-Events:*André Breton asks Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Enrique Tábara, and Eugenio Granell to represent Spain by exhibiting some of their works in the Homage to Surrealism Exhibition celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of Surrealism.-Works:...
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Deaths
- January 4 - Anselm FeuerbachAnselm FeuerbachAnselm Feuerbach was a German painter. He was the leading classicist painter of the German 19th-century school.-Biography:...
, painter (b. 18291829 in art-Events:*Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.-Paintings:*Karl Blechen – Tivoli*Eugène Delacroix – Sardanapalus...
) - February 19 - Constantino BrumidiConstantino BrumidiConstantino Brumidi was an Greek/Italian-American historical painter, best known and honored for his fresco work in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC.-Parentage and early life:...
, fresco painter (b. 18051805 in art-Events:*William Blake begins work on the illustrations for Blair's The Grave.-Works:*John Sell Cotman – Greta Bridge*Thomas Douglas Guest – Bearing the Dead Body of Patroclus to the Camp, Achilles's Grief-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting:...
) - October 10 - Giampietro CampanaGiampietro CampanaGiampietro Campana , created marchese di Cavelli , was an Italian art collector who assembled one of the nineteenth century's greatest collection of Greek and Roman sculpture and antiquities. The part of his collection of Hellenistic and Roman gold jewellery conserved in the Musée du Louvre...
, art collector (b. 18081808 in art-Events:* May 2 and May 3, In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808....
) - November 20 - Léon CognietLéon CognietLéon Cogniet was a French historical and portrait painter.- Biography :Cogniet was born in Paris. In 1812, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied under Pierre-Narcisse Guérin at the same time as Delacroix and Géricault. In 1817 he won the Prix de Rome and was a resident at...
, French painter (b. 17941794 in art-Works:* William Blake, The Ancient of Days-Births:*March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter *May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter *September 30 – Karl Begas, German historical painter...
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- Henry O'NeillHenry O'Neill (painter)Henry O'Neill was an Irish artist and antiquarian.-Career:Born in Clonmel, O'Neill lost both parents at a young age, and was tended by his sister, Sara O'Neill, a haberdasher who provided him an exceptional education. O'Neill is best remembered for the creation of lithographs portraying Celtic...
, IrishIrish peopleThe Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
and archaeologist (b. 17981798 in art-Works:*William Beechey – George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops*François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche*Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole-Births:*February 17 – Josef Navrátil, Bohemian painter of paintings, murals, and frescos...
) - Nicolae TeodorescuNicolae TeodorescuNicolae Teodorescu was a Moldavian-born Romanian church painter , and the uncle of artist Gheorghe Tattarescu.In 1831, he was called on by Chesarie, the Orthodox bishop of Buzău to open a school for church painters at the local bishopric...
- Moldavian-born Romanian church painter (muralist) (b. 17971797 in art-Births:*June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter *July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter *August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter *September 19 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer...
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- Henry O'Neill