Art year 1861

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Art year 1861
1. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, painting by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner 1861
The new Wallraf-Richartz-Museum opens.
Our banner in the sky
Frederic Edwin Church paints Our Banner in the Sky during the Civil War .

Events

architecture

The provisional House of Representatives, behind it the still undeveloped Schottenring, from the Votive Church, which is under construction
  • The provisional building for the House of Representatives of the Reichsrat in Vienna is being erected by the architect Ferdinand Fellner at Währinger Strasse 2-6 (opposite the construction site of the Votive Church that dominates the square , just one block from Ringstrasse ). Construction of the two-storey transom wall construction will start on March 12th . Construction is completed after just six weeks and will be ready for occupancy on April 25th . In this short time, around 500 workers are employed day and night, night shifts are carried out with torch lighting. The temporary facility, which was used until the parliament building was completed in 1883, was given the name Schmerlingtheater by the population after Prime Minister Anton von Schmerling or Shack .
Altlerchenfelder parish church

painting

France

Paul Cézanne 1861

Paul Cézanne is coming to Paris from his hometown of Aix-en-Provence in April . After being rejected from the École des Beaux-Arts , he enrolls at the Académie Suisse . There he meets Armand Guillaumin , Achille Emperaire and Camille Pissarro, who is ten years his senior . However, he does not feel at home in Paris and will return to Aix-en-Provence in September to work in his father's bank.

Whistler: Sketch by Jo, 1861

Further plants worldwide

The Icebergs
Sunday afternoon
  • The Swiss genre painter Albert Anker paints the picture on Sunday afternoon .

photograph

Exhibitions and museums

The Hogarth Club of the Pre-Raphaelites held from February to May in 6 Waterloo Place , London, his last exhibition. In September - after a discussion as to whether the demand for entrance fees is admissible - the dissolution of the non-profit association is decided by the members due to financial problems and carried out in December.

In Cologne, the new Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , donated by Johann Heinrich Richartz for Ferdinand Franz Wallraf's art collections and built according to plans by Josef Felten and Julius Carl Raschdorff in the English-Neo-Gothic style , opens on July 1st after a five-year construction period.

Awards ceremonies

Others

Born

Died

Ernst Rietschel's grave in the Trinity cemetery in Dresden

See also

Portal: Fine Arts  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of fine arts

Web links

Commons : Art 1861  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Photographien 1861  - Collection of images, videos and audio files