Art year 1764
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Overview of the Art Years
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Events
architecture
- September 6th : King Louis XV. lays the foundation stone for the Panthéon in Paris . The architect of the building is the largely unknown Jacques-Germain Soufflot . The construction work lasts until 1790 .
Graphics
- Before his death, William Hogarth completed his last, pessimistic work, The Tailpiece or The Bathos, under the influence of the Seven Years' War .
painting
- February 13 : Adam Friedrich Oeser is appointed court painter to the Elector of Saxony.
- Angelika Kauffmann paints the portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann . The portrait, which shows the archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann, makes the painter known in one fell swoop. The work is then engraved and distributed in large numbers. In the same year the portrait of David Garrick was created .
Exhibitions and museums
- Tsarina Catherine II of Russia buys 250 paintings in Europe and thus founds today's Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg .
Teaching and Research
- February 6 : Prince Franz Xaver of Saxony establishes as administrator for his nephew, the still underage Elector of Saxony Friedrich August III. the drawing, Mahlerey and architecture academy in Leipzig . The painter Adam Friedrich Oeser is appointed as the founding director. Over the next few centuries, the Academy for Graphics and Book Art Leipzig and the University for Technology, Economics and Culture Leipzig developed from the Academy . In the same year, the General Art Academy of Painting, Sculpture, Engraving and Architecture, commissioned by Elector Friedrich Christian , who died the previous year, was founded in Dresden . The Frenchman Charles Hutin becomes the first director . The academy is the successor to the first drawing and painting school founded in 1680 . It is one of the oldest art academies in German-speaking countries.
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes the history of ancient art in two volumes.
- The Russian Art Academy founded by Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov in 1757 is renamed the Imperial Art Academy on behalf of Catherine II and receives a new building, the construction of which will take until 1789 .
Born
- January 13 : Johann Marcus David , German painter († 1815 )
- April 1 : Barbara Krafft , Austrian painter († 1825 )
- April 1 : Johann Evangelist Reiter , German Catholic pastor, geometer, fresco painter, sculptor, stonemason, musician, architect and writer († 1835 )
- April 6 : Detmar Basse , German entrepreneur, diplomat and art collector († 1836 )
- April 14th : Firmin Didot , French typographer and writer († 1836 )
- April 20 : Rudolph Ackermann , German-British bookseller, lithographer, publisher and entrepreneur († 1834 )
- April 26 : Joseph Ramée , French architect, landscaper and interior decorator († 1842 )
- May 1 : Benjamin Latrobe , American architect († 1820 )
- May 11 : Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld , German painter († 1841 )
- May 20 : Johann Gottfried Schadow , Prussian sculptor and graphic artist († 1850 )
- June 19 : Johann Karl Krafft , Austro-French architect and engraver († 1833 )
- June 27 : Pawel Petrovich Sokolow , Russian sculptor of classicism († 1835 )
- July 12 : Charles Thévenin , French neoclassicist painter († 1838 )
- August 22 : Josef Abel , Austrian painter († 1818 )
- August 22nd : Charles Percier , French architect and interior designer († 1838 )
- October 5 : Friedrich Christian Reinermann , German landscape painter and etcher († 1835 )
- October 19 : Johann Christoph Rincklake , German painter († 1813 )
- November 30 : Abraham Girardet , Swiss engraver and draftsman († 1823 )
- December 3 : Friedrich Wilhelm Facius , German inventor, gem cutter, engraver and medalist († 1843 )
- December 15 : Johann Christian Ruhl , Hessian sculptor, illustrator and architect († 1842 )
Died
- February 10 : Antonio Giuseppe Bossi , Würzburg court plasterer (* 1699 )
- April 9 : Marco Benefial , Italian classicist painter (* 1684 )
- May 3 : Francesco Algarotti , Italian writer, art critic and art dealer (* 1712 )
- May 16 : Anton Landes , Bavarian Rococo plasterer (* 1712 )
- July 20 : Peter van Bleeck , Dutch portrait painter and engraver (* 1697 )
- August 2 : Balthasar Riepp , Bavarian-Austrian painter (* 1703 )
- August 7th : Franz Christoph Nagel , German builder of the Baroque (* 1699 )
- September 1 : Sebastiano Conca , Italian late Baroque painter (* 1680 )
- September 13 : Giovanni Domenico Barbieri , Baroque builder from Graubünden (* 1704 )
- October 26 : William Hogarth , British painter and engraver (* 1697 )
- December 26th : Ismael Mengs , Saxon miniature and enamel painter (* 1688 )
- Gabriel Steinböck , imperial court stonemason master (* 1705 )
See also
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