Art year 1794
Art year 1794
Overview of the art years
Further events
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 Autoportrait (self-portrait), Jacques-Louis David , 1794, oil on canvas.
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 A Pair of Broad Bottoms , William Heath , 1794, caricature.
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_British_Museum.jpg) William Blake : Europe a Prophecy, Copy D , British Museum .
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In Europe, the year 1794 generally falls into the art-historical epoch of classicism . As an art style, Classicism painting means the orientation towards Greco-Roman antiquity and the Italian Renaissance . For the year 1794, French revolutionary painting , which expressed enthusiasm for the revolution , was particularly important in France. In terms of cultural history, the beginning of early romanticism is emerging .
Events
- Germany
In Germany, the copper engraving and drawing cabinet of Elector Carl Theodor von der Pfalz , founded in 1758 in Mannheim Palace , was brought to safety from the advancing French army and transferred to Munich. Here it formed the basis of the State Collection of Graphics in Munich .
In the Johanneum in Dresden , works from the Mengs cast collection of the Antiken-Kabinett are shown from 1794 .
- France
The following museums were founded in France: Musée des Beaux-Arts (Rennes) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts (Reims) . As a result of the French Revolution, Henri Grégoire founded the “ Conservatoire national des arts et métiers ”, to which the Musée des arts et métiers belongs, for the arts and crafts .
- Far East
In Japan, Tōshūsai Sharaku began a series of actor portraits in the genre and technique of ukiyo-e , which were also referred to as the beginning of modern art in Japan.
architecture
Construction work on Pfaueninsel Palace in Berlin by court carpenter Johann Gottlieb Brendel in ruin architecture begins .
In New Orleans , the St. Louis Cathedral is completed in the style of the antebellum architecture of the southern states .
Works of painting
- Jacques-Louis David : Autoportrait , oil on canvas, 81 × 64 cm, today owned by the Louvre , and La Mort du jeune Bara (Death of Young Bara ), oil on canvas, 119 × 156 cm, today in the Musée Calvet , Avignon .
- Francisco de Goya finished El naufragio ( The Shipwreck ), oil on zinc sheet, 43.2 × 32 cm, today the Plácido Arango collection in Madrid, and the portrait of the actress María del Rosario Fernández La Tirana , oil on canvas, 112 × 79 cm.
- William Blake : The Ancient of Days . The second part of Blake's illustrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience appears .
- Louis-Léopold Boilly : Le Triomphe de Marat , today Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
- John Singleton Copley : Admiral of the Fleet Howe , oil on canvas, 77.2 × 119.4 cm, now the National Maritime Museum
- Jan Piotr Norblin (Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine): Accrochage des portraits des traîtres à la place du marché de la vieille ville de Varsovie (The hanging of the traitors in the market square of Warsaw)
- The Saarlander Johann Friedrich Dryander created several portraits in 1794, including the Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat and Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjudant
- Angelika Kauffmann : Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca ( Portrait of the impromptu virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca), oil on canvas, 128.2 × 93.6 cm
- Thomas Lawrence created the portrait of a girl of about 11 (Sarah Barrett Moulton) who became known as Pinkie at The Huntington today .
Jan Piotr Norblin : Accrochage des portraits des traîtres à la place du marché de la vieille ville de Varsovie
Louis-Léopold Boilly : Le Triomphe de Marat
Johann Friedrich Dryander : Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjudant
John Singleton Copley : Admiral of the Fleet Howe
Goya : La Tirana
Angelika Kauffmann : Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca
Thomas Lawrence : Sarah Barrett Moulton: Pinkie
Works of sculpture
- Giuseppe Ceracchi : Alexander Hamilton , marble bust
- Johann Gottfried Schadow : Portrait of the Countess Lichtenau
Giuseppe Ceracchi : portrait bust of Alexander Hamilton , marble
Johann Gottfried Schadow : portrait bust of Countess Lichtenau , marble
Others
- Handicrafts
In Germany, with the help of Alexander von Humboldt, the royal privileged porcelain factory Tettau was founded, known for its pure white, translucent “Tettau shards”. In the 20th century, Tettau u. a. well-known artists such as Paul Klee , Franz Marc and August Macke Dekore.
The faience factory Zeller Keramik is founded in Zell am Harmersbach by Josef Anton Burger.
Born
- February 8 : Calixte Serrur , French painter († 1865)
- February 11 : Gustav Friedrich Waagen , German art historian and later director of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin († 1868)
- March 9 : Matteo Picasso , Italian painter († 1879)
- March 26 : Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , German painter († 1872)
- April 25 : Antoine Sartoris , French painter of Italian origin († 1856)
- May 13 : Louis Léopold Robert , Swiss painter († 1835)
- June 3 : William Charles Ross , British history, miniature and portrait painter († 1860)
- June 23 : Franz Nadorp , German painter, German-Roman († 1876)
- June 26 : Pierre-Jules Jollivet , French history and genre painter, lithographer († 1871)
- July 24th : Robert William Sievier , English sculptor († 1865)
- August 29 : Léon Cogniet , French history and portrait painter († 1880)
- September 17 : Henry Wyatt , English portrait painter († 1840)
- September 30 : Carl Joseph Begas , German painter († 1854)
- October 19 : Charles Robert Leslie , English genre painter († 1859)
- October: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright , English journalist, painter, art critic and murderer († 1847)
- November 1 : Johannes Baptista van Acker , Flemish miniature portrait painter († 1863)
- November 19 : James Stark , English painter († 1859)
- December 31 : Samuel Jackson , English watercolorist and painter († 1869)
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- Abel Dimier , French sculptor († 1864)
- Joseph Patrick Haverty , Irish painter († 1864)
- William Heath , English painter, draftsman and satirist († 1840)
- Jan Feliks Piwarski , Polish painter († 1859)
- Ferdinando Cavalleri , Italian portrait painter († 1865 or 1867),
- Gaspare Sensi , Italian painter and lithographer († 1880).
Died
- January 3 : Giuseppe Paladino , Italian painter (* 1721)
- January 24th : Jean-Antoine Morand , French painter and architect (* 1727)
- February 18 : Joseph Adam von Mölk , Austrian fresco and panel painter (* 1718)
- March 4 : Franz Anton Zeiller , Austrian Rococo church painter (* 1716)
- March 16 : Maria Katharina Prestel , German pastel and watercolor painter, engraver and etcher (* 1747)
- March 31 : Bernardino Galliari , Italian fresco artist and theater painter (* 1707)
- April 4 : Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen , Dutch landscape painter (* 1737)
- April 14 : Samuel Hieronymus Grimm , Swiss watercolorist (* 1733)
- April 16 : Domenico Maggiotto , Italian painter (* 1713)
- May 1 : Louis-Nicolas Van Blarenberghe , French painter (* 1716)
- May 13 : Pierre-François Brice , Belgian painter (* 1714)
- June 11 : Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski , German portrait painter (* 1725)
- June 22nd : Charles-Marie Caffieri , French sculptor (* 1736)
- June 24th : Rosalie Filleul , French pastel painter (* 1753)
- August 11 : Christian Ulrik Foltmar , Danish wallpaper weaver and miniature painter (* 1716)
- October: Jean Humbert , Dutch painter (* 1734)
- October 18 : Johann Ernst Heinsius , German painter (* 1731)
- November: Antonio Dominici , Italian painter (* 1737)
- December 11 : Étienne Ficquet , French etcher (* 1719)
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- Vicente Calderón de la Barca , Spanish history painter (* 1762)
- Carl-Ludwig Christinek , Russian painter (* 1730/1732)
- Giacomo Leonardis , Italian graphic artist (* 1723)
- Jacopo Marieschi , Italian vedute painter (* 1711)
