1897 in art
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The year 1897 in art involved some significant events.
Events
- February 18 – Conclusion of the Benin Expedition of 1897, leading to the Benin Bronzes being carried off to London.
- April 3 – Vienna Secession founded by artists including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil. Secession hall designed by Olbrich.
- May 1 – Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum opened in Copenhagen.
- May 27 – A Separate Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture (Wystawa osobna obrazów i rzeźb)[1] is staged at Sukiennice Museum in Main Square, Kraków.[2]
- August 4 – The "Lady of Elche" Iberian sculpture (4th century BCE) is found at L'Alcúdia near Elche in Spain.
- September – Edvard Munch stages a major retrospective in Christiania.
- October 27 – First meeting of the Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" in Kraków.[3]
- At Giverny, Claude Monet begins painting his Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.
- Elbridge Ayer Burbank begins painting portraits of Native Americans in the United States from life.
- Women photographers Zaida Ben-Yusuf and Gertrude Käsebier open portrait studios in New York City.
Publications
- A Book of Fifty Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley is published.[4]
- Vingt Dessins 1861–1896, a collection of prints by Edgar Degas.[5]
- Bernard Berenson publishes Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance.
Works
- Edwin Austin Abbey – The Play Scene in Hamlet
- Philip Burne-Jones – The Vampire
- Georges Clairin – Sarah Bernhardt as the Queen in 'Ruy Blas'
- Herbert James Draper – Pot Pourri
- Roberto Ferruzzi – Madonnina
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela – Lemminkäinen's Mother
- Paul Gauguin – Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
- Ogata Gekkō – Ryu sho ten (published 1898)
- J. W. Godward – Dolce far Niente (first version)
- Jean-Jacques Henner – Portrait of Mlle Fouquier
- Jacek Malczewski – Vicious Circle
- Claude Monet
- Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
- Morning on the Seine near Giverny
- The Seine at Giverny
- Edvard Munch – The Kiss
- Camille Pissarro
- Boulevard Montmartre
- Boulevard Montmartre in Spring
- Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
- Maurice Prendergast – Summer Visitors
- Henri Rousseau – The Sleeping Gypsy
- John Singer Sargent – Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes
- Rudolf Siemering – Washington Monument, Philadelphia[6]
- Henryk Siemiradzki – A Christian Dirce
- Douglas Tilden – Admission Day Monument, San Francisco
- Vasily Vereshchagin – Napoleon near Borodino
- Arthur Wardle – The Totteridge XI
- Painters under the direction of Jan Styka – Transylvania Panorama (Lwów)
Births
- January 9 – Tyra Lundgren, Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (died 1979)[7]
- January 17 – Charles Ragland Bunnell, American painter (died 1968)
- January 21 – René Iché, French sculptor (died 1954)
- March 16 – Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (died 1963)
- May 2 – Adolf Hyła, Polish painter and art teacher (died 1965)
- May 21 – Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (died 1945)
- June 3 – Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-born graphic artist (died 1960)
- June 22 – Albert Renger-Patzsch, German photographer (died 1966)
- June 26 – Victor Servranckx, Belgian painter (died 1965)
- August 19 – Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (died 1990)[8]
- September 23 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (died 1994)[9]
- October 27 – Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (died 1992)
- November 5 – Hilda Vīka, Latvian painter (died 1963)
Deaths
- February 7 – Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (born 1816)
- February 9 – George Price Boyce, English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (born 1826)[10]
- March 21 – Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (born 1864)
- May 20 – Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon, French artist (born 1831)
- June 7 – Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (born 1809)
- September 8 – James Milo Griffith, Welsh sculptor (born 1843)[11]
- September 20 – Louis Pierre Mouillard, French artist and aviation pioneer (born 1834)[12]
- October 5 – Sir John Gilbert, English painter (born 1817)[13]
- October 8 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian landscape painter (born 1830)
- November 18 – Henry Doulton, English potter (born 1820)[14]
- November 29 – Félix Pissarro, French-born painter, TB (born 1874)
- December 30 – Edward La Trobe Bateman, English-born Pre-Raphaelite watercolour painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer (born 1816)[15]
- date unknown – Jang Seung-eop ('Owon'), Korean painter (born 1843)[16]
References
- ^ Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania (2006). "Sztuka, Wiener Secession, Mánes: The Central European Art Triangle". Artibus et Historiae. 27 (53): 217–259. doi:10.2307/20067117. JSTOR 20067117.
- ^ Brzyski, Anna (2007). "Making Art in the Age of Art History". Partisan Canons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 257–66. ISBN 978-0822340850.
- ^ Brzyski, Anna (transl.) (1899), Report of the Committee of the Association of Polish Artists "Sztuka" for the year 1898 (PDF), vol. 19, Warsaw: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, p. 379, archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2012-11-11
- ^ Souter, Nick; Tessa (2012). The Illustration Handbook: A Guide to the World's Greatest Illustrators. Oceana. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84573-473-2.
- ^ "Vingt dessins as an Object". scalar.usc. Retrieved 24 February 2025.
- ^ "George Washington Monument, (sculpture)". Inventory of American Sculpture, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
- ^ "Tyra Lundgren". Nationalmuseum (Stockholm). Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ Lynne Warren (15 November 2005). Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set. Routledge. p. 1625. ISBN 978-1-135-20536-2.
- ^ Paul Delvaux (1997). Paul Delvaux 1897-1994: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels. Blondé Artprinting International. p. 308.
- ^ Stephen Wildman; Jan Marsh; John Christian (1995). Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England. Art Services International. p. 335. ISBN 978-0-88397-113-0.
- ^ The Cambrian. T.J. Griffiths. 1898. p. 185.
- ^ Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (1967). Between Knowing and Believing. McKay. p. 173.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ George Woolliscroft Rhead (1910). British Pottery Marks. Scott, Greenwood. p. 115.
- ^ Daniel Thomas. "Bateman, Edward La Trobe (1815–1897)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ Korea Journal. Korean National Commission for UNESCO. 1978. p. 41.