1888 in art

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Events

Architecture

  • In Turin, the Mole, the tallest building in Italy, completed.

Painting

Vincent van Gogh

  • March / May: The painter Vincent van Gogh paints the picture Langlois Bridge ( in two versions).
  • August: Vincent van Gogh painted several versions of the painting sunflowers.

Three Sunflowers

Five Sunflowers

Fifteen Sunflowers

Paul Gauguin: Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers painting

  • Summer: Vincent van Gogh painted the sunset with Montmajour.
  • September: Vincent van Gogh made ​​in oil on canvas paintings The Night Café, Café Terrace at Night and Starry Night over the Rhone.
  • October 23: Paul Gauguin arrived in Arles, to start with Van Gogh a " studio of the south".
  • Vincent van Gogh painted the first version of his bedroom in the " Yellow House " in Arles.

Café Terrace at Night

Starry Night over the Rhone

Bedroom in Arles ( First version )

  • DECEMBER 23: Vincent van Gogh injured under mysterious circumstances on the right ear.

Other works

  • The artist Claude Monet paints the picture Antibes seen from the hill, Notre Dame ' from.

Photography

  • William Hall wax discovered the photoelectric effect.
  • The photographer Ottomar Anschütz has filed a patent its off the image plane shutter blinds.

Museums and exhibitions

  • The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, founded in the previous year organized her first exhibition.

Others

  • German artists founded in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Art Association.
  • Charles Robert Ashbee founded the School of Handicraft, a training workshop for architecture and interior design.

Born

  • February 2: Adolf rading, German architect († 1957)
  • February 10: Wilhelm Thony, Austrian painter and graphic artist († 1949)
  • February 10: Willy Jaeckel, German artist († 1944)
  • FEBRUARY 26: Maria Grengg, Austrian storyteller and painter († 1963)
  • March 1: Joseph Brendle, German painter († 1954)
  • March 1: Robert Petschow, German balloonist, photographer and sports official († 1945)
  • MARCH 19: Josef Albers, German painter, art theorist and pedagogue - († 1976)
  • 20 March: Renée Sintenis, German sculptor and graphic artist († 1965)
  • April 3: Sibylle ash mountain of Bamberg, German painter († 1966)
  • April 6: Hans Richter, German painter and film artists of the Dada movement († 1976)
  • MAY 24: John Göderitz, German architect and urban planner († 1978)
  • June 1: Herbert Garbe, German sculptor († 1945)
  • 24 June: Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch architect and designer († 1964)
  • JUNE 28: Alfonso of Czibulka, Austrian writer and painter († 1969)
  • July 1: Alberto Magnelli, Italian painter († 1971)
  • July 10: Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter († 1978)
  • September 4: Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, and set designer († 1943)
  • October 14: Paul Burkhard, Swiss sculptor and draftsman († 1964)
  • OCTOBER 19: Arnold Brügger, Swiss painter († 1975)
  • NOVEMBER 5: Jupp Wiertz, German graphic artist († 1939)
  • NOVEMBER 17: Max Lingner, German painter, graphic artist and resistance fighter († 1959)
  • November 20: Willi Tillmans, German painter († 1985)
  • DECEMBER 18: Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)
  • Abelardo Bustamante, Chilean painter and sculptor († 1934)

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