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.
- John William Waterhouse painted his famous painting The Lady of Shalott.
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)
Died
- June 22: Franz Napoleon Heigel, French - German artist ( * 1813)
- OCTOBER 18: Alessandro Antonelli, Italian architect (* 1798)
- October 18: Albert Zimmermann, German painter (* 1808)
- November 5: Ludwig Müller- Uri, German glass artist (* 1811)