1869 in art

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Events

  • Built in Neo-Renaissance " New House " of the Vienna Court Opera on the Ring Road is completed. The opening takes place on May 25 with a performance of the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Eduard van der Null and August Sicard von Sicardsburg, the architects of the critically including " Battle of Sadowa " vilified building died in the previous year.
  • In Vienna, the construction of the Palais Hansen starts.

Born

  • January 8: Arnold Genthe, German - American photographer († 1942)
  • JANUARY 15: Stanisław Wyspiański, Polish painter and draftsman († 1907)
  • May 27: Otto Gussmann, German painter, professor of ornamentation and architecture-related paintings and designer († 1926)
  • MAY 28: Hermann Jansen, German architect and urban planner († 1945)
  • September 3: Helene Funke, German painter († 1957)
  • SEPTEMBER 8: Johann Eustacchio, Austrian architect († 1909)
  • September 15: Fritz Overbeck, German painter († 1909)

Died

  • JULY 22: John August Roebling, German - American engineer (* 1806)
  • JULY 28: Carl Gustav Carus, German naturalist and painter (* 1789)
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