Art year 1857
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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Events
Exhibitions
- May 5th to October 17th : The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition takes place in Manchester . With over 16,000 works on display, it is still one of the largest art exhibitions in history. Over 1.3 million people visit the exhibition. Queen Victoria will also visit the exhibition on June 29th . An orchestra under the direction of Charles Hallé puts on a concert every day.
architecture
- February 23 : 13 architects found the American Institute of Architects in New York City . Richard Upjohn is elected first president .
- April 27 : The first Teatro Colón , built by Charles Pellegrini and featuring Verdi's La traviata, opens on the south-western corner of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires .
sculpture
- September 4 : In Weimar , the bronze Goethe-Schiller monument created by the Dresden sculptor Ernst Rietschel with the support of his assistant Gustav Kietz is inaugurated in front of the Weimar Court Theater . The foundryman Ferdinand von Miller completed the bronze casting in the royal ore foundry in Munich . Melted Ottoman cannon barrels from the Battle of Navarino were used as material . The next day, at the inauguration of the Faust Symphony by Franz Liszt first performed.
photography
- The Swedish-British photographer Oscar Gustave Rejlander creates his most famous work, the collage The Two Ways of Life . The initial criticism of the work's “indecency” ceases when Queen Victoria purchases a copy for her husband.
painting
- After an extensive revision, the French painter Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot is re-exhibiting his painting Rural Concert from 1844 .
Born
- January 2 : Frederick Burr Opper , American comic book artist and illustrator († 1937 )
- January 14 : Alice Pike Barney , American painter († 1931 )
- February 12 : Eugène Atget , French photographer († 1927 )
- February 18 : Max Klinger , German sculptor, painter and graphic artist († 1920 )
- April 6 : Arthur Wesley Dow , American landscape painter († 1922 )
- May 6 : Frank Bramley , English painter († 1915 )
- May 17th : Julius Trip , German garden architect († 1907 )
- June 6th : Karl Pommerhanz , Austrian comic artist
- August 3 : Alice Hughes , English photographer († 1939 )
- August 6 : Christian Wilhelm Allers , German painter and draftsman († 1915 )
- August 8 : Maurice Yvon , French architect († 1911 )
- August 28 : James Buchanan Aurig , German photographer († 1935 )
- August 28 : Hermann Schaedtler , German architect († 1931 )
- September 2 : Karl Stauffer-Bern , Swiss painter († 1891 )
- September 12 : George Hendrik Breitner , Dutch artist († 1923 )
- October 11 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter († 1937 )
- December 11 : Rodolfo Amoedo , Brazilian painter († 1941 )
- December 26 : Berthe Constance Ursule Art , Belgian pastel and still life painter († 1934 )
- December 29 : Louis Abel-Truchet , French painter († 1918 )
Died
- January 30th : Agostino Aglio , Italian painter, engraver and lithographer (* 1777 )
- May 2 : Frederick Scott Archer , British sculptor and photography pioneer (* 1813 )
- August 24th : August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn , German landscape painter (* 1796 )
- December 3 : Christian Daniel Rauch , German sculptor (* 1777 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1857 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Photographien 1857 - Collection of images, videos and audio files