1875 in art

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Events

Architecture

• January 5: Built by Charles Garnier Neo-baroque Opéra Garnier is opened. The Paris Opera, which is elected by Gaston Leroux as the setting for his novel Le fantôme de l' opéra, at this time the largest theater in the world.
• November 11: In Buenos Aires Parque Tres de Febrero, the public is inaugurated. The land belonged to the former dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas and was dispossessed him.

Sculpture

• The Hermann Monument in the Teutoburg Forest is inaugurated after 37 years of construction.

Painting

• Thomas Eakins painted the painting The Gross Clinic.

• Eastman Johnson painted the painting The Girl I left behind me.

Born

• JANUARY 9: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American philanthropist and founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art ( † 1942)
• MARCH 22: Anton Hanak, Austrian sculptor († 1934)

• June 22: Johannes Baader, German architect, writer, Dadaist and performance artist († 1955)
• JULY 21: Oskar Moll, German painter († 1947)
• JULY 31: Jacques Villon, French painter of Cubism († 1963)

• September 5: Carl Froelich, German film pioneer and director († 1953)
• September 22: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian composer and painter († 1911)
• SEPTEMBER 25: Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, Spanish painter († 1960)

• DECEMBER 23: Ivan Prijatelj, Slovenian cultural and literary historian († 1937)

Died

• February 2: Ludwig Droste, German architect and city architect (* 1814)
• FEBRUARY 22: Jean -Baptiste Camille Corot, French Landscape Painter (* 1796)

• JUNE 27: Antoine -Louis Barye, French sculptor (* 1795)