1889 in art
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Events
Architecture
- March 31: In Paris, France, built to mark the centenary of the French Revolution, the Eiffel Tower will be completed in time for the World Expo and released a short time later to the public. The population of Paris perceives, designed by Gustave Eiffel and Charles Léon Stephen Sauvestre highest building in the world at this time as an eyesore and is collecting signatures for his removal.
Painting
- January: Vincent van Gogh painted three other paintings in the series sunflowers, which he has begun in the previous year.
Fifteen Sunflowers
Fifteen Sunflowers
- Vincent van Gogh painted other versions of his bedroom in the " Yellow House " in Arles.
Van Gogh's Bedroom
Van Gogh: View over Arles
- May 8: Van Gogh moved from Arles to the nearby mental hospital of Saint -Paul -de- Mausole in Saint- Remy- de -Provence.
- June: Vincent van Gogh painted in Saint- Rémy -de- Provence in southern France in oil on canvas the picture starry night. He then made a drawing of the same name.
Others
- In Worpswede the artists' colony is founded.
Born
- José Prida y Solares, Spanish - Chilean painter ( date of death unknown)
Died
- JANUARY 30: Mary Vetsera, Austrian nobles (* 1871)
- MARCH 8: Anton Romako, Austrian artist (* 1832)
- MARCH 16: Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Temple, German astronomer and lithographer (* 1821)
- JULY 31: Hugh of Ritgen, German architect (* 1811)
- October 6: Jules Dupré, French landscape painter (* 1812)
- December 27 Eduard Bendemann, German painter (* 1811)