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Overview of the events of 1897 in art
The year 1897 in art involved some significant events.
February 18 – Conclusion of the
Benin Expedition of 1897 , leading to the
Benin Bronzes being carried off to London.
April 3 –
Vienna Secession founded by artists including
Gustav Klimt ,
Koloman Moser ,
Josef Hoffmann ,
Joseph Maria Olbrich ,
Max Kurzweil .
Secession hall designed by Olbrich.
May 1 –
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum opened in
Copenhagen .
May 27 – A Separate Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture (Wystawa osobna obrazów i rzeźb )
[1] is staged at
Sukiennice Museum in
Main Square, Kraków .
[2]
August 4 – The "
Lady of Elche "
Iberian sculpture (4th century BCE) is found at L'Alcúdia near
Elche in Spain.
September –
Edvard Munch stages a major retrospective in
Christiania .
October 27 – First meeting of the
Society of Polish Artists "Sztuka" in
Kraków .
[3]
At
Giverny ,
Claude Monet begins painting his
Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.
Elbridge Ayer Burbank begins painting portraits of
Native Americans in the United States from life.
Women photographers
Zaida Ben-Yusuf and
Gertrude Käsebier open portrait studios in
New York City .
A Book of Fifty Drawings by
Aubrey Beardsley is published.
[4]
Vingt Dessins 1861–1896 , a collection of prints by
Edgar Degas , is published.
Bernard Berenson publishes Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance .
Paul Gauguin ,
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (oil on canvas),
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , United States
Ogata Gekkō , Ryu sho ten , from his Views of
Mount Fuji
January 9 –
Tyra Lundgren , Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (died
1979 )
[5]
January 17 –
Charles Ragland Bunnell , American painter (died
1968 )
January 21 –
René Iché , French sculptor (died
1954 )
March 16 –
Antonio Donghi , Italian painter (died
1963 )
May 2 –
Adolf Hyła , Polish painter and art teacher (died
1965 )
May 21 –
Nikola Avramov , Bulgarian painter (died
1945 )
June 3 –
Georg Mayer-Marton , Hungarian-born graphic artist (died
1960 )
June 22 –
Albert Renger-Patzsch , German photographer (died
1966 )
June 26 –
Victor Servranckx , Belgian painter (died
1965 )
August 19 –
Roman Vishniac ,
Russian American
photographer (died
1990 )
[6]
September 23 –
Paul Delvaux , Belgian painter (died
1994 )
[7]
October 27 –
Lena Gurr , American painter and lithographer (died
1992 )
November 5 –
Hilda Vīka , Latvian painter (died
1963 )
February 7 –
Charles Edward Boutibonne , French Classicist painter (born
1816 )
February 9 –
George Price Boyce , English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (born
1826 )
[8]
March 21 –
Ādams Alksnis ,
Latvian painter (born
1864 )
May 20 –
Jacques Émile Édouard Brandon , French artist (born
1831 )
June 7 –
Victor Mottez , French fresco and portrait painter (born
1809 )
September 8 –
James Milo Griffith , Welsh sculptor (born
1843 )
[9]
September 20 –
Louis Pierre Mouillard , French artist and aviation pioneer (born
1834 )
[10]
October 5 –
Sir John Gilbert , English painter (born
1817 )
October 8 –
Alexei Savrasov , Russian landscape painter (born
1830 )
November 18 –
Henry Doulton , English potter (born
1820 )
[11]
November 29 –
Félix Pissarro , French-born painter, TB (born
1874 )
December 30 –
Edward La Trobe Bateman , English-born Pre-Raphaelite watercolour painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer (born
1816 )
[12]
date unknown –
Jang Seung-eop ('Owon'), Korean painter (born
1843 )
[13]
^ Krzysztofowicz-Kozakowska, Stefania (2006). "Sztuka, Wiener Secession, Mánes: The Central European Art Triangle". Artibus et Historiae . 27 (53): 217–259.
doi :
10.2307/20067117 .
JSTOR
20067117 .
^ Brzyski, Anna (2007). "Making Art in the Age of Art History". Partisan Canons . Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 257–66.
ISBN
978-0822340850 .
^ Brzyski, Anna (transl.) (1899),
Report of the Committee of the Association of Polish Artists "Sztuka" for the year 1898 (PDF) , vol. 19, Warsaw: Tygodnik Ilustrowany, p. 379, archived from
the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04, retrieved 2012-11-11
^ Souter, Nick; Tessa (2012). The Illustration Handbook: A Guide to the World's Greatest Illustrators . Oceana. p. 41.
ISBN
978-1-84573-473-2 .
^
"Tyra Lundgren" . Nationalmuseum (Stockholm) . Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
^ Lynne Warren (15 November 2005).
Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set . Routledge. p. 1625.
ISBN
978-1-135-20536-2 .
^ Paul Delvaux (1997).
Paul Delvaux 1897-1994: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels . Blondé Artprinting International. p. 308.
^ Stephen Wildman; Jan Marsh; John Christian (1995).
Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England . Art Services International. p. 335.
ISBN
978-0-88397-113-0 .
^
The Cambrian . T.J. Griffiths. 1898. p.
185 .
^ Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (1967).
Between Knowing and Believing . McKay. p. 173.
^ George Woolliscroft Rhead (1910).
British Pottery Marks . Scott, Greenwood. p. 115.
^ Daniel Thomas.
"Bateman, Edward La Trobe (1815–1897)" . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Retrieved July 13, 2021 .
^
Korea Journal . Korean National Commission for UNESCO. 1978. p. 41.