Art year 1859
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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 Negro Life at the South . |
Events
architecture
- The National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh , designed by William Henry Playfair , opens.
sculpture
- May 21 : On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Aspern is that of Anton Dominik Fernkorn designed Lion of Aspern on the Asperner unveiled Heldenplatz.
painting
France
- Édouard Manet is offering his work The Absinthe Drinker, which he began last year, to the biennial Salon de Paris . The jury rejected the picture, however, only Eugène Delacroix was in favor of inclusion in the exhibition.
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- After three years of work, Jean-François Millet completes the painting L'Angélus ( The ringing of the angel ).
- Henri Fantin-Latour : Self-Portrait .
Further plants worldwide
- After sketches from his travels to South America, Frederic Edwin Church produced the painting The Heart of the Andes . In the same year - impressed by reports on the exploration of the North Sea, especially by the spectacularly failed Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage - he rents a ship together with Louis Legrand Noble to sketch icebergs in the North Atlantic between Labrador and Greenland .
- The American artist Eastman Johnson paints his most famous work, Negro Life at the South .
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- The Italian history painter Francesco Hayez produced the painting The Kiss , a symbol of the Risorgimento .
drawing
- Wilhelm Busch publishes his first picture story: The little honey thieves .
Museums and exhibitions
The Palazzo del Bargello in Florence is being converted into a museum so that the city can house the sculptures from the Renaissance that no longer have a place in the Uffizi . The Bargello is home to one of the world's most important sculpture collections with works by Michelangelo , Donatello , Benvenuto Cellini , Giovanni Bologna , Baccio Bandinelli , Vincenzo Danti and Tino di Camaino . In addition, the museum has an extremely extensive coin collection, a collection of weapons and armor, as well as miniatures.
literature
The Canadian painter Paul Kane publishes a book about his travel impressions with the title Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians of North America from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Territory and Back Again , provided with numerous lithographs based on his sketches and paintings . Kane dedicates the book, which is an instant hit, to its early patron George William Allan .
Born
- January 18 : Gonzalo Carrasco Espinosa , Mexican clergyman and religious painter († 1936 )
- April 16 : Friedrich Traugott Helbig , Saxon sculptor († 1886 )
- May 12 : August von Brandis , impressionist interior painter († 1947 )
- May 21 : Otto Hupp , German graphic artist († 1949 )
- May 24th : Emil Thormählen , German architect († 1941 )
- July 26 : Virginie Demont-Breton , French painter († 1935 )
- August 18 : Anna Ancher , Danish impressionist painter († 1935 )
- August 27 : Ferdinand Schirnböck , Austrian academic painter and engraver († 1930 )
- September 22nd : Paul Baum , French-influenced German Impressionist painter († 1932 )
- September 30 : Gustav Kampmann , German painter and graphic artist († 1917 )
- November 10th : Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen , Swiss-French painter and graphic artist († 1923 )
- December 2 : Georges Seurat , French inventor and painter († 1891 )
- December 29 : Elizabeth Adela Forbes , Canadian late Impressionist painter († 1912 )
Died
- August 29 : Hans Caspar Escher , Swiss architect and industrial pioneer (* 1775 )
- September 5 : Friedrich Olivier , German painter (* 1791 )
- November 23 : James Ward , British painter (* 1769 )
- December 1 : Alfred Rethel , German history painter (* 1816 )
