1870 in art
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Events
- Franco-Prussian WarFranco-Prussian WarThe Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...
breaks out: Monet and Pissarro flee to LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. - Édouard ManetÉdouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
and Louis Edmond DurantyLouis Edmond DurantyLouis Edmond Duranty was a prolific novelist and art critic.Duranty supported the realist cause and later the Impressionists. He was challenged to a duel in 1870 by Édouard Manet over an affront. He was a friend of Edgar Degas, who painted a celebrated portrait of him in 1879 . He was a frequent...
fight a duel at Café GuerboisCafé GuerboisCafé Guerbois, on Avenue de Clichy in Paris, was the site of late 19th century discussions and planning amongst artists, writers and art lovers – the bohèmes , in contrast to the bourgeois....
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Paintings
- Henri Fantin-LatourHenri Fantin-LatourHenri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.-Biography:...
- A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'OrsayMusée d'OrsayThe Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture,...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
) - Édouard ManetÉdouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
- La Brioche (Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
) - John Everett MillaisJohn Everett MillaisSir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.-Early life:...
- The Boyhood of RaleighThe Boyhood of RaleighThe Boyhood of Raleigh is a painting by John Everett Millais, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871. It came to epitomise the culture of heroic imperialism in late Victorian Britain and in British popular culture up to the mid-twentieth century....
(Tate BritainTate BritainTate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
) - Dmitri Sinodi-PopovDmitri Sinodi-PopovDmitri Minaevich Sinodi-Popov was a Russian artist of Greek descent.Dmitri Sinodi-Popov was born in the city of Taganrog, where he received a good education at home: violin, French, Italian and Greek languages and was very good at the visual arts. In 1870, Sinodi-Popov entered the St...
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Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile ThomasAlbert-Félix-Théophile ThomasAlbert-Félix-Théophile Thomas was a French architect.Thomas was born in Marseilles, and was a student of Alexis Paccard and Leon Vaudoyer at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the first Prix de Rome in 1870, and became the youngest winner of the French Academy in Rome from February 15, 1871...
. - Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri Maréchal
Births
- January 11 - Alexander Stirling CalderAlexander Stirling CalderAlexander Stirling Calder was an American sculptor and teacher; son of the sculptor Alexander Milne Calder, and father of the sculptor Alexander Calder...
, sculptor (d. 19451945 in art-Events:*Constantine Andreou moves to France, having received a scholarship from the French government.*Jackson Pollock marries Lee Krasner.-Awards:*Archibald Prize: William Dargie - Lt-General The Hon Edmund Herring, KBC, DSO, MC, ED-Works:...
) - March 13 - William GlackensWilliam GlackensWilliam James Glackens was an American realist painter.Glackens studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later moved to New York City, where he co-founded what came to be called the Ashcan School art movement...
, 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 22 - Dattilo RubboDattilo RubboAntonio Salvatore Dattilo Rubbo was an Italian-born artist and art teacher active in Australia from 1897.Rubbo, or Dattilo-Rubbo, was born in Naples in 1870 and arrived in Australia in 1897. From 1898 Rubbo taught in Sydney schools including St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, Kambala, The Scots...
, painter and art teacher (d. 19551955 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Robert Campbell Esq.-Works:*John Brack - Collins St., 5 pm*Carroll Cloar - My Father Was Big as a Tree*Salvador Dali - The Sacrament of the Last Supper...
) - July 21 - Emil OrlikEmil OrlíkEmil Orlik was born in Prague, which was at that time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and lived and worked in Prague, Austria and Germany...
, painter and lithographer (d. 19321932 in art-Events:*Alvar Aalto designs a new form of laminated bent-plywood furniture.*Courtauld Institute of Art is founded in London.*The Wedgwood pottery firm commissions its first designs from Keith Murray.-Paintings:*Frank Brangwyn - British Empire Panels...
) - July 25 - Maxfield ParrishMaxfield ParrishMaxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...
, painter and illustrator (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....
) - November 18 - Franz MetznerFranz MetznerFranz Metzner was an influential German sculptor, particularly his sculptural figures integrated into the architecture of Central European public buildings in the Art Nouveau / Jugendstil / Vienna Secession period...
, sculptor (d. 19191919 in art-Events:* Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus.* Seven and Five Society established in London.-Works:*Evelyn De Morgan - The Gilded Cage*Aleksandra Ekster - City at Night*Max Ernst - Aquis Submersus...
) - December 23 - John MarinJohn MarinJohn Marin was an early American modernist artist. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors.-Biography:...
, painter (d. 19531953 in art-Works:*Hans Arp - Cloud Shepherd, University City of Caracas.*Alexander Calder - Acoustic Clouds, University City of Caracas.*Willem De Kooning - Woman V*Edwin Dickinson - Ruin at Daphne...
) - date unknown - Arthur DiehlArthur DiehlArthur Vidal Diehl was a prominent English impressionist landscape artist.Diehl was born in London, England, but for most of his career, he lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States where he painted Old World and New World landscapes. Diehl's Old World subjects include scenes from...
, landscape painter (d. 19291929 in art-Events:*January 10 - First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets , begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième....
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Deaths
- January 17 - Alexander AndersonAlexander Anderson (illustrator)Dr Alexander Anderson was an American illustrator.He was born in New York City to Scottish parents. "At the age of twelve years he made his first attempts at engraving on copper, frequently using pennies rolled out, and on type-metal plates...
(b. 17751775 in art-Events:*Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, now the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.-Paintings:*John Trumbull – The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill-Births:...
) - April 25 - Daniel MacliseDaniel MacliseDaniel Maclise was an Irish history, literary and portrait painter, and illustrator, who worked for most of his life in London, England.-Early life:...
, painter (b. 18061806 in art-Events:*The Elgin Marbles are brought to Britain from Greece by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.-Works:* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres:*Napoleon on his Imperial Throne*Madame Rivière-Births:...
) - May 17 - David Octavius HillDavid Octavius HillThe Scottish painter and arts activist David Octavius Hill collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland.-Early life:...
, painter and pioneer photographer (b. 18021802 in art-Events:*The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.-Works:*Antonio Canova – statue of Napoleon Bonaparte*François Gerard – Madame Récamier*John Constable – Dedham Vale, 1802-Births:...
) - July 13 - Christian Albrecht JensenChristian Albrecht JensenChristian Albrecht Jensen was a Danish portrait painter who was active during the Golden Age of Danish Painting in the first half of the 19th century...
, Danish painter (b. 17921792 in art-Events:*François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.-Births:*February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor *June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter...
) - November 28 - Frédéric BazilleFrédéric BazilleJean Frédéric Bazille was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which Bazille placed the subject figure within a landscape painted en plein air....
, Impressionist painter (b. 18411841 in art-Events:*American artist John G. Rand invents the collapsible zinc oil paint tube, marketed by Winsor & Newton of London.*John Ruskin publishes The King of the Golden River, with illustrations by Richard Doyle.-Births:...
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- Max Emanuel AinmillerMax Emanuel AinmillerMaximilian Emanuel Ainmiller was a German artist and glass painter.Under the tutorage of Friedrich von Gärtner, director of the royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Ainmiller studied glass painting, both as a mechanical process and as an art, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich...
, glass painter (b. 18071807 in art-Events:*Completion of Fonthill Abbey, built to house the art collection of William Thomas Beckford.-Works:*David Wilkie – Rent Day*Jacques-Louis David – The Coronation of Napoleon-Births:*February 4 – Max Emanuel Ainmiller, glass painter...
) - Patrick MacDowellPatrick MacDowellPatrick MacDowell RA was a sculptor from Belfast. At about the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to a coach-builder in London and later went to lodge in the house of P F Chenu, the sculptor where he took to modelling...
, 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...
sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
from BelfastBelfastBelfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...
(b. 17991799 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – The Intervention of the Sabine Women*Anne-Louis Girodet – Mademoiselle Lange en Danaé*Francisco Goya – Los Caprichos*J. M. W. Turner – Norham Castle-Births:*January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter...
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- Max Emanuel Ainmiller
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- Johannes FlintoeJohannes FlintoeJohannes Flintoe was a Danish painter who spend most of his career in Norway, both painting and teaching. He is known for landscapes and scenes from Scandinavian history.-Biography:Flintoe was born in Copenhagen in 1787...
- Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (b. 17871787 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David's painting Death of Socrates was completed.* Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's painting Marie Antoinette and Her Children was completed.*John Trumbull – Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec.-Births:...
) - Achille LeonardiAchille LeonardiAchille Leonardi was a 19th century Italian artist. Leonardi painted with oil on canvas.-Works:A representative sample of Leonardi's works include:* Linda di Chamonnid...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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...
(b. 18001800 in artThe year 1800 in art is often estimated to be the beginning of the change from the Neoclassicism movement, that was based on Roman art, to the Romantic movement, which encouraged emotional art and ended around 1850.-Works:...
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- Johannes Flintoe