Art year 1870
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Overview of the Art Years
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Events
Franco-German War
- 24 / August 25 : During the Siege of Strasbourg in the German-Prussian War , the Strasbourg city library in Temple Neuf completely destroyed. Numerous valuable manuscripts are burned, including the medieval Hortus Deliciarum from the 12th century.
architecture
- January 3 : The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge planned by John August Roebling between Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City begins with the preparations for the foundations of the towers and the anchors. Roebling's son Washington Augustus took over the management of the project after the death of his father the previous year. The bridge over the East River is planned as a combined suspension and cable-stayed bridge and is one of the oldest suspension bridges of this type in the USA. The up to 23 m deep construction pits for the foundations of the towers and the anchors are excavated with the help of caissons , a method used for the first time in the USA, which is not yet fully mastered and the medical problems of which are not yet understood at all. During the five years of civil engineering work, there were repeated accidents and cases of decompression sickness .
- January 5 : Georges-Eugène Haussmann , Prefect responsible for the fundamental urban redesign of Paris since 1853 , is relieved of his duties.
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- January 6th : The Vienna Musikverein building built by Theophil von Hansen is opened with a festive concert. The acoustics of the Great Hall are consistently praised by the critics. The keystone will be laid on March 1st . The music association is built in the historicizing style based on models from ancient Greece : columns , caryatids and gables - reliefs allow the association that a temple for music was built here. The large hall has a ceiling painting by August Eisenmenger and sculptures by Franz Melnitzky .
sculpture
- Adèle Colonna exhibits her most famous busts of Pythia and Abyssinian Chief under the pseudonym Marcello at the Salon de Paris .
painting
On July 31, the painter Adolph von Menzel witnessed a crowd cheering on the Prussian king on Berlin's boulevard Unter den Linden at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War - and kept the scene in the oil painting the departure of King Wilhelm I the following year Army on July 31, 1870 .
Edouard Manet paints the landscape Effet de neige à Petit-Montrouge . The 59.7 × 49.7 cm picture, painted in oil on canvas, shows a wintry view of Petit-Montrouge , a district in the 14th arrondissement of Paris . Manet created this painting as a national guard during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War . Unlike the history painters of his time, Manet does not show a heroic battle in this picture, but the gloomy mood of a day of war. The picture reflects Manet's hopelessness with regard to the military situation, his perceived loneliness and the privations he suffered. It is one of the few landscape paintings in the artist's oeuvre and one of the first works that Manet paints in the wild.
Henri Fantin-Latour paints in oils on canvas Un atelier aux Batignolles . The 204 × 273.5 cm picture shows the painter Édouard Manet , surrounded by colleagues and admirers, in a studio in the artists' quarter Quartier des Batignolles . Next to Manet is the art critic, journalist, poet, composer, painter and sculptor Zacharie Astruc . Behind the two stand from left to right the painters Otto Scholderer and Pierre-Auguste Renoir , the art critic and writer Émile Zola , Renoir's friend and patron Edmond Maître, and the painters Frédéric Bazille and Claude Monet . The young generation of painters depicted in the painting was largely known in Paris at the end of the 1860s, but so far without any notable success with the public and critics. In the Un atelier aux Batignolles , Fantin-Latour tries to portray the painters, also known as “Bande à Manet”, as serious artists and members of the bourgeoisie . Fantin-Latour's painting style is traditional and is reminiscent of 17th century Dutch paintings. With this painting he tries to underline the seriousness of his painter friends and to avoid any appearance of rebellion, but he does not succeed in achieving this effect. The success for the painter friends only arose at the end of the 1870s.
Museums and exhibitions
- April 13 : The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is founded.
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 2 : Ernst Barlach , German writer, sculptor and draftsman († 1938 )
- January 8 : Wanda von Debschitz-Kunowski , German portrait photographer († 1935 )
- January 14 : Ida Dehmel , Jewish-German art patron, founder of artistic associations and women's rights activist († 1942 )
- February 9 : Arthur Illies , German painter and graphic artist († 1952 )
- April 17 : Max Berg , German architect († 1947 )
- May 9 : Hans Baluschek , German painter, graphic artist and writer († 1935 )
- May 16 : Antonín Slavíček , Czech painter († 1910 )
- May 24 : Alice Seeley Harris , British missionary and photographer († 1970 )
- June 10 : Jeanne Rij-Rousseau , French painter († 1956 )
- June 13 : Frederick Weygold , American artist and scientist († 1941 )
- June 20 : Georges Dufrénoy , French painter († 1943 )
- July 1 : Léonard Misonne , Belgian photographer († 1943 )
- July 21 : Christian Aigens , Danish artist († 1940 )
- July 21 : Emil Orlik , Bohemian painter, graphic artist and artisan († 1932 )
- September 12 : Carl Arend , German architect († 1938 )
- October 2 : Alfred Cossmann , Austrian engraver and commercial artist († 1951 )
- October 28 : Hans Anetsberger , German portrait and landscape painter († 1942 )
- November 25 : Maurice Denis , French symbolism painter († 1943 )
- December 10 : Adolf Loos , Austrian architect and architectural theorist († 1933 )
- December 10 : Ferdynand Ruszczyc , Polish painter († 1936 )
- December 23 : Jessie Tarbox Beals , American press photographer († 1942 )
- December 23 : John Marin , American painter († 1953 )
- December 26 : Frank Stephen Meighen , Canadian officer and art patron († 1946 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Helene Arnau , Austrian landscape, portrait and war painter († 1958 )
Died
- March 24 : Ferdinand Stadler , Swiss architect (* 1813 )
- April 7th : Claude Félix Abel Niepce de Saint-Victor , French chemist, inventor and photographer (* 1805 )
- April 30th : Václav Levý , Czech sculptor (* 1820 )
- May 15 : Harro Harring , North Frisian revolutionary, poet and painter (* 1798 )
- July 13 : Johan Fredrik Eckersberg , Norwegian national romantic painter (* 1822 )
- November 28th : Frédéric Bazille , French painter (* 1841 )
- December 8th : Max Emanuel Ainmiller , German architecture and glass painter, sculptor, art tailor and watchmaker (* 1807 )
- December 12th : August von Voit , German architect (* 1801 )
- Jacques-François Ochard , French painter (* 1800 )
