Art year 1858

Art year 1858
Anton Dominik Fernkorn built to commemorate the Battle of Aspern the Lion of Aspern .

Events

Table of contents of the series designed by Gengyo Miyagi

November: One month after the death of the Japanese woodblock print master Utagawa Hiroshige , the publisher Sakanaya Eikichi starts printing his main work 100 Famous Views of Edo .

The Lion of Aspern
(picture in Die Gartenlaube from 1858)

The Lion of Aspern by Anton Dominik Fernkorn is erected on the Asperner Heldenplatz. It is supposed to commemorate the Battle of Aspern in 1809 .

September 28 : British photographer William Usherwood is the first to take a photo of a comet . The following night, the American astronomer William Cranch Bond also takes a picture of Donati .

Side view of the Xanten boy

February 16 : Near Xanten , six fishermen find the Xanten boy , a bronze statue from Roman times, on the banks of the Rhine .

April: Some Pre-Raphaelite members found the Hogarth Club .

Title page of the first edition

October: The Protestant theologian Carl Grüneisen , the lawyer and art historian Karl Schnaase and the painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld found the Christian Art Journal for Church, School and House , an art magazine for Protestant Christians.

January 10 : Heinrich Zille , German painter, draftsman and photographer († 1929 )
January 15 : Giovanni Segantini , Italian painter († 1899 )
February 11 : Désiré Thomassin , Austrian painter and composer († 1933 )
March 3 : Heinrich Brockhaus , German art historian († 1941 )
April 14 : Cella Thoma , German painter († 1901 )
May 30 : Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt , German painter († 1915 )
June 16 : John Peter Russell , Australian painter, the "lost impressionist" († 1930 )
June 21 : Medardo Rosso , Italian sculptor († 1928 )
July 6 : Heinrich Otto , German painter († 1923 )
July 21 : Lovis Corinth , German painter († 1925 )
August 30 : Ignaz Sowinski , Austrian architect († 1917 )
September 12 : Fernand Khnopff , Belgian painter, graphic artist, sculptor and art writer († 1921 )
October 31 : Franz Ahrens , German architect († 1933 )
November 8 : Gustaf Wickman , Swedish architect († 1916 )
November 21 : Bruno Schmitz , German architect († 1916 )
November 24th : Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian painter, writer and philosopher († 1884 )
December 7th : Gustav Gull , Swiss architect († 1942 )
December 12 : Emmanuel Villanis , French sculptor († 1914 )
December 15 : Adolf Rettelbusch , German painter, is nicknamed Brockenmaler († 1934 )
December 20 : Jan Toorop , Dutch symbolist painter († 1928 )

January 18 : Margarethe Jonas , German embroiderer and painter (* 1783 )

June 15 : Ary Scheffer , French etcher and sculptor (* 1795 )

July 3 : Alexander Ivanov , Russian painter (* 1806 )

October 12 : Utagawa Hiroshige , Japanese color woodcut artist (* 1797 )

Commons : Art 1858 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Photographien 1858 - Collection of images, videos and audio files