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Overview of the events of 1880 in art
Events from the year 1880 in art.
Bartholdi's
Lion of Belfort
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February 1 –
C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died
1957)
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February 8 –
Franz Marc, German
painter and printmaker, co-founder of
Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action
1916)
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March 2 –
Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died
1937)
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March 21 –
Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died
1966)
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April 4 –
William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died
1969)
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April 7 –
Alexander Bogomazov,
Ukrainian painter, artist and modern
art
theoretician of
Russian avant-garde (died
1930)
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May 6 –
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of
Die Brücke (suicide
1938)
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June 10 –
André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died
1954)
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August 2 –
Arthur Dove, American painter (died
1946)
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August 22 –
George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died
1944)
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November 19 –
Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died
1959)