Art year 1863
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Events
archeology
Matronenstein No. 1 (replica)
- End of February : During clearing work near the Gripswald house in the area of today's city of Meerbusch in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Gripswald Matronensteine , Roman votive stones, with which mother goddesses (the matrons ) were presumably worshiped, are found.
- April 20 : The larger than life statue of Emperor Augustus is found in the Villa di Livia in the Roman district of Prima Porta . Existing damage resulted from falls in antiquity in which the left lower leg, the right foot and the right arm lifted into the air broke off.
- The French Vice-Consul in the Ottoman Empire, Charles Champoiseau, discovers the fragments of a statue of Nikes on Samothrace , which are put together and brought to Paris. The Nike of Samothrace had a major impact on the historicism of the late 19th century.
architecture
Vienna Ringstrasse
- May 20 : The foundation stone for the New House of the Vienna Court Opera designed by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll on the recently expanded Vienna Ringstrasse is laid. The construction work on the neo-renaissance- style building lasted until 1869 .
- The by architect Theophil Hansen on behalf of the industrialist Henry of Drasche-Wartinberg on the Ringstrasse in Vienna built Heinrichshof after about two years of completion of construction.
- The architect August Weber begins construction of the horticultural building on Vienna's Ringstrasse .
- Emperor Franz Joseph I. gives the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna in the area of the Vienna Ringstrasse free of charge an area for the construction of a concert building . The architect Theophil Hansen is commissioned with the design .
Other buildings worldwide
- September 24 : The St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg , rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style after the fire in 1842 , is inaugurated. The tower, which will make the church the tallest building in the world for the time being, will only be completed in the next ten years .
- In Turin , the construction of a synagogue, which is known today as the Mole Antonelliana , begins on behalf of the Jewish community based on the plans of the architect Alessandro Antonelli .
sculpture
- Adèle Colonna exhibits three busts for the first time in the Salon de Paris under the male pseudonym Marcello . There she attracted the attention of the Empress Eugenie , who invited her to the Tuileries .
painting
France
- May 1st : This year's Salon de Paris opens. Among other things, Alexandre Cabanel is successful there with his birth of Venus . The work is possibly the model for Manet's painting Olympia , which was painted in the same year .
- May 15 : The exhibition of the on the initiative of Emperor Napoléon III. The resulting Salon des Refusés is opened. Images rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris can be seen there, among them The Breakfast in the Green by the painter Édouard Manet and The Girl in White by James McNeill Whistler , which the public perceived as scandalous. In addition to Manet and Whistler, works by Gustave Courbet , Johan Barthold Jongkind , Camille Pissarro , Paul Cézanne , Armand Guillaumin , Felix Bracquemond and the painters Henri Fantin-Latour , Amand Gautier and Alphonse Legros are also represented in the exhibition.
- Édouard Manet portrays his brother Gustave as a young man in a majo costume .
Further plants worldwide
- The painter Albert Bierstadt takes a trip through the Rocky Mountains , where the painting Lander's Peak is created.
- The Swiss genre painter Albert Anker paints the painting Children's funeral with oil on canvas .
drawing
- Henri Fantin-Latour designed a study for his group portrait Hommage à Delacroix .
Research and Teaching
After many years of effort Rudolf Eitelberger the Austrian emperor founded Franz Joseph on the initiative of his cousin Archduke Rainer , the kk Austrian Museum of Art and Industry . The museum essentially follows the model of the South Kensington Museum in London, which was founded in 1852 , and is intended to serve as a model collection for artists, industrialists and the public and as a training and further education facility for designers and craftsmen. From 1867 , among other things, the University of Applied Arts Vienna developed .
Others
- February: Several Altona citizens found a company to set up an Altona museum .
- October 28 : Édouard Manet marries the two years older Dutch pianist Suzanne Leenhoff , with whom he has lived for years. Their son Léon is introduced as Suzanne's younger brother into Manet's family and Parisian society.
- Jeanna Bauck leaves her hometown Stockholm to go on training trips alone. She first went to Dresden, where she was accepted into Adolf Ehrhardt 's nude class , although women would otherwise be denied access.
Born
- January 14 : Richard Felton Outcault , American comic book artist, author and painter († 1928 )
- January 17 : Emanuel La Roche , Swiss architect († 1922 )
- February 6 : Carl Bössenroth , German painter († 1935 )
- February 7 : Richard König , German sculptor († 1937 )
- February 9 : Ernst Kreidolf , Swiss graphic artist and picture book illustrator († 1956 )
- February 20 : Lucien Pissarro , French painter, graphic artist and wood cutter († 1944 )
- February 21 : Carlos Reis , Portuguese painter († 1940 )
- February 23 : Franz von Stuck , German painter and sculptor († 1928 )
- February 27 : Otto Reiniger , Swabian Impressionist landscape painter, († 1909 )
- February 27 : Joaquín Sorolla , Spanish painter († 1923 )
- March 17 : Léopold-Émile Reutlinger , German-French photographer († 1937 )
- April 3 : Henry van de Velde , Belgian architect and designer († 1957 )
- April 15 : Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy , Hungarian-American portrait painter († 1923 )
- April 23 : Hugo Helbing , German art dealer and auctioneer († 1938 )
- May 17 : Charles Robert Ashbee , English architect († 1942 )
- May 18 : Max Linienbach , German painter († 1936 )
- June 26 : Alfred Grenander , Swedish architect († 1931 )
- June 27 : Carl Zimmermann , German painter († 1930 )
- July 14 : Nelson Kinsley , American landscape painter († 1945 )
- August 14 : Gebhard Fugel , German painter of Christian art († 1939 )
- August 17 : Fritz Greve , German painter and art professor († 1931 )
- September 10 : Edmund Edel , German graphic artist, caricaturist, writer and film director († 1934 )
- October 8 : Adolphe Tabarant , French journalist and art historian († 1950 )
- October 17 : Kaspar Ritter , Austrian cabinet maker and builder († 1954 )
- November 11th : Paul Signac , French painter and graphic artist († 1935 )
- December 12 : Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter and graphic artist († 1944 )
- December 24th : Alma del Banco , German painter († 1943 )
- Walter Paget , British illustrator († 1935 )
Died
- January 17th : Horace Vernet , French military painter and lithographer (* 1789 )
- April 4 : Ludwig Emil Grimm , German painter, etcher and engraver, youngest brother of the Brothers Grimm (* 1790 )
- June 5 : Marie Ellenrieder , German painter (* 1791 )
The tomb of Eugène Delacroix in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris
- August 13 : Eugène Delacroix , French painter (* 1798 )
- September 11th : Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , German painter and graphic artist (* 1807 )
- September 17th : Blasius Höfel , Austrian engraver (* 1792 )
- November 3 : Carl Robert Croll , German painter (* 1800 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1863 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Photographien 1863 - Collection of images, videos and audio files