Art year 1889

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Art year 1889
The Eiffel Tower is completed in Paris .
The Natural History Museum opens in Vienna .

Events

architecture

Georges Seurat : Eiffel Tower, oil on canvas, 1889

March 31 : In Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower built on the occasion of the centenary of the French Revolution will be completed in time for the World's Fair and will be opened to the public a little later. The Parisian population feels that the tallest structure in the world, designed by Gustave Eiffel and Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre at the time, is an eyesore and collects signatures for its removal.

August 10 : The Natural History Museum is opened in Vienna as one of the Ringstrasse structures . It was built in the style of historicism over an 18-year construction period based on the designs by Gottfried Semper and Karl von Hasenauer .

painting

January: Vincent van Gogh paints three more paintings in the Sunflowers series in Arles , which he began the previous year .

Twelve sunflowers
Fifteen sunflowers
Fifteen sunflowers

Vincent van Gogh paints other versions of his bedroom in the “Yellow House” in Arles .

Vincent's bedroom in Arles
Van Gogh's bedroom
Van Gogh: View over Arles

Self-portrait with bandaged ear and pipe

Van Gogh: Starry Night

May 8 : Van Gogh moves from Arles to the nearby Saint-Paul-de-Mausole mental hospital in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , where he practices painting as therapy.

June: Vincent van Gogh paints the picture Starry Night in oil on canvas in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in southern France . Then he also makes a drawing with the same name.

Sommer: Van Gogh has a seizure in which he tries to swallow poisonous paint. Several self-portraits are then created. He also turned a number of paintings that he owned as black and white reproductions - mainly by Delacroix and Millet - into colored paintings.

September: Vincent's brother Theo van Gogh succeeds for the first time in accommodating his brother's works in a well-known exhibition of avant-garde art. The reactions are largely appreciative.

Eugen Bracht: The shore of oblivion

Eugen Bracht sends the original version of Gestade der Vergessenheit , one of the most famous works of symbolism , to the Kunsthalle Darmstadt.

additional

The artist colony is founded in Worpswede .

Born

January 6 : José Prida y Solares , Spanish-Chilean painter († 1984 )
January 19 : Sophie Taeuber-Arp , Swiss artist, painter and sculptor († 1943 )
January 20 : Lois Welzenbacher , Austrian architect († 1955 )
January 21 : Hermann Glöckner , German painter († 1987 )
January 22nd : Willi Baumeister , German painter († 1955 )

February 13 : Georg Schrimpf , German painter († 1938 )
February 18 : Gerhard Marcks , German sculptor († 1981 )

April 7 : Peter August Böckstiegel , German painter († 1951 )
April 15 : Galka Scheyer , German-American painter, art dealer and art collector († 1945 )
April 20 : Walter Hahn , German photographer († 1969 )

May 4 : Richard Seewald , German painter and writer († 1976 )
May 6 : Stanley Morison , English typographer († 1967 )
May 24 : Ludwig Thormaehlen , German sculptor and art historian († 1956 )

June 15 : Josef Haubrich , German art collector and patron († 1961 )
June 18 : Laureano Guevara , Chilean painter († 1968 )

July 1 : Wera Ignatjewna Muchina , Russian sculptor († 1953 )
July 5 : Jean Cocteau , French writer, director, choreographer, painter († 1963 )
July 7th : Martin Punitzer , German architect († 1949 )
July 25 : Wilhelm Riphahn , German architect († 1963 )
July 30th : Frans Masereel , Belgian painter and graphic artist († 1972 )

October 10 : Han van Meegeren , Dutch painter and art forger († 1947 )
October 24 : Clovis Trouille , French painter († 1975 )

November 1st : Hannah Höch , German collage artist of Dadaism († 1978 )
November 3 : Heinrich Campendonk , German painter and graphic artist († 1957 )
November 18 : Hannes Meyer , Swiss architect and urbanist († 1954 )
December 27 : Lino Salini , Frankfurt painter, draftsman and caricaturist († 1944 )

Died

March 8 : Anton Romako , Austrian painter (* 1832 )
March 16 : Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel , German astronomer and lithographer (* 1821 )

July 31 : Hugo von Ritgen , German architect (* 1811 )
October 6 : Jules Dupré , French landscape painter (* 1811 )
December 27th : Eduard Bendemann , German painter (* 1811 )

Web links

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