Art year 1864
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Overview of the Art Years
Further events
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 First Reading of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation . |
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Events
Architecture and landscaping
- June 6 : The Elisabethenkirche in Basel, built according to plans by Ferdinand Stadler in the neo-Gothic style , opens with a service. The choir windows will not be used until a year later.
- Gottfried Semper completes the main building of the Polytechnic in Zurich.
- The architect August Weber completed the horticultural building on Vienna's Ringstrasse .
- In Düsseldorf, the construction of the society and festival house for the artists' association Malkasten begins according to plans by Ludwig Blank .
- Construction begins on the new Parliament House in Brisbane , Australia.
- The royal Bavarian court gardener Carl von Effner began on behalf of Baron Ernst Friedrich von Dörnberg with the transformation of a property he had acquired into an English landscape park , today's Dörnbergpark in Regensburg .
sculpture
- Second half of the year: US President Abraham Lincoln sits as a model for a bust for the sculptor Vinnie Ream for five months.
- Auguste Rodin learns Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse know and be his student. In the same year he breaks with the beauty ideal of salon art with The Man with the Broken Nose . The work is therefore rejected by the Paris Salon .
painting
Édouard Manet :
Sea view, calm weather ,
oil on canvas
Édouard Manet : Naval Battle between the Kearsarge and the Alabama ,
oil on canvas
- February 6th to July 12th : Francis Bicknell Carpenter paints his most famous painting, First Reading of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation . While at work, President Abraham Lincoln gives him permission to live in the White House.
- The painting Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau is exhibited for the first time in an official Parisian salon .
- Jean Jacques Henner paints The Chaste Susanna .
- Henri Fantin-Latour paints one of his few group portraits in oil on canvas: Hommage à Delacroix .
photograph
The Photographische Gesellschaft , founded in 1861 , opens the first photographic exhibition in Vienna on May 17th in the palace of the brewery owner Anton Dreher junior in Operngasse near the construction site for the new court opera in Vienna . Around 110 exhibitors take part with around 1,100 photographic recordings and around 400 products from the photographic trade, such as lenses, chemical preparations, bookbinding and frame dealer items, and studio accessories. The exhibition, which did not get a noteworthy response in the press, will be visited by around 10,000 interested people until it closes on June 30th . The most prominent guest is Emperor Franz Joseph I , who will be there on May 24th . In the same year the company also publishes the monthly magazine Photographische Correspondenz for the first time .
- Georg Emil Hansen is appointed Danish court photographer.
Museums
- May 12th : The Austrian Museum of Art and Industry , founded in the previous year, opens in the Ballhaus of the Hofburg in Vienna. 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.
Awards ceremonies
The French sculptor Eugène Delaplanche received the Prix de Rome for sculpture, awarded by the French Académie de France à Rome .
Born
- January 1 : Alfred Stieglitz , American photographer and gallery owner († 1946 )
- January 1 : Qi Baishi , Chinese painter († 1957 )
- January 4th : George Albert Smith , British film pioneer († 1959 )
- January 8 : Julie Wolfthorn , German painter († 1944 )
- February 1 : Paul Peterich , German sculptor († 1937 )
- February 4 : Willie Park Junior , Scottish golfer, club maker and golf architect († 1925 )
- February 29 : Adolf Wölfli , Swiss painter († 1930 )
- March 4 : Johanna Ey , German gallery owner († 1947 )
- March 19 : Charles M. Russell , American painter, sculptor, illustrator and writer († 1926 )
- April 11 : Lillie P. Bliss , American art collector and patroness, co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art († 1931 )
- May 18 : Jan Veth , Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university professor for art history and aesthetics († 1925 )
- May 22 : Willy Stöwer , German marine painter of the imperial era († 1931 )
- June 21 : Heinrich Wölfflin , Swiss art historian († 1945 )
- July 8 : Fred Holland Day , American photographer and publisher († 1933 )
- August 5 : Irene Forbes-Mosse , German writer and painter († 1946 )
- September 2 : Séraphine Louis , French painter of naive art († 1942 )
- September 28 : Arthur Kampf , German history painter († 1950 )
- September 30th : Max Laeuger , German artist († 1952 )
- October 8 : Rudolf Zinggeler , Swiss photographer († 1954 )
- October 19 : Georg Albertshofer , German sculptor († 1933 )
- November 4 : Robert Lorimer , Scottish architect († 1929 )
- November 9 : Paul Sérusier , French painter († 1927 )
- November 14 : Claribel Cone , German-American art collector († 1929 )
- November 20 : Franz Zimmermann , Austrian painter († 1956 )
- November 24th : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , French painter († 1901 )
- December 8 : Camille Claudel , French sculptor († 1943 )
- December 31 : Hans am Ende , German painter († 1918 )
Died
- January 14th : Georg Jabin , German landscape painter (* 1828 )
- January 27 : Leo von Klenze , German architect (* 1784 )
- February 7 : Christian Gottlob Hammer , German landscape painter and copperplate engraver (* 1779 )
- February 14 : William Dyce , British painter (* 1806 )
- May 22 : Lulu von Thürheim , Austrian painter and writer (* 1788 )
- June 2 : Caroline Bardua , German painter (* 1781 )
- June 6 : Robert Zimmermann , German draftsman, lithographer and landscape painter (* 1818 )
- August 25 : Johann-Peter Weyer , Cologne city architect and art collector (* 1794 )
- November 25 : David Roberts , British painter (* 1796 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Art 1864 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Photographien 1864 - Collection of images, videos and audio files