1866 in art
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Events
Architecture
- At the Stock-im - Eisen-Platz in the city center of Vienna, the construction of Haas House begins. Architects for the building built in the style of historicism of the carpet house Philipp Haas & Söhne are August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null. It is the first since the Middle Ages newly built house at this point.
Painting
- For the Ottoman diplomat Halil Serif Pasa Gustave Courbet paints a picture of L' Origine du monde.
- Gustave Courbet painting the painting woman with parrot and the sleepers - inertia and lust.
- Édouard Manet's Le Fifre ( The Fifer ) is rejected by the Salon de Paris.
- After he gave up the work on the painting The Luncheon on the Grass, Claude Monet paints the picture Camille in green dress, a portrait of Monet's late wife, which is well received by the Paris Salon.
- Anselm Feuerbach painted The storytellers at the well.
- On December 31, Anselm Feuerbach completed the work Ricordo di Tivoli, but dates it to the year 1867.
Museums and exhibitions
- The Art Institute of Chicago is founded.
Born
- January 27: Henry Seufferheld, German draftsman, painter and etcher († 1940)
- FEBRUARY 15: Pavel Petrovich Troubetzkoy, Russian sculptor († 1938)
- FEBRUARY 20: Carl Westman, Swedish architect († 1936)
- FEBRUARY 25: Heinrich Kühn, Austrian photographer ( † 1944)
- MARCH 6: Hans Christiansen, German painter and craftsman († 1945)
- MARCH 17: Alice Austen, American photographer († 1952)
- April 8: Fritz Mackensen, German painter († 1953)
- MAY 28: Franz von Bayros, Austrian graphic artist († 1924)
- JUNE 13: Aby Warburg, German art historian and cultural studies ( † 1929)
- July 3: Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter
- July 14: Ragnar Östberg, Swedish architect († 1945)
- JULY 28: Beatrix Potter, British children's author and illustrator - († 1943)
- October 25: Carlo Pellegrini, Italian painter, draftsman and illustrator († 1937)
- December 16: Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter and graphic artist († 1944)
Died
- January 20: Georg Kaspar Nagler, German art historian and writer (* 1801)
- JANUARY 23: Peter Joseph, German gardener and landscape architect (* 1789)
- April 26: Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, German - French astronomer and painter (* 1802)
- May 30: Johann Baptist Pflug, German painter (* 1785 )
- July 26: Ernst Helbig, German painter and court painter Wernigeröder (* 1802)
- Joseph Ferdinand de Boissard Boisdenier, French painter of Romance (* 1813)