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Overview of the events of 1886 in art
Overview of the events of 1886 in art
Events from the year 1886 in art .
March – Vincent van Gogh moves to Paris.
April – New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall , London , providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer , under the influence of Paris .
April 28 – Paul Cézanne marries his model and former lover Marie-Hortense Fiquet , despite having publicly stated that he has no feelings for her.May 15 –June 15 – Eighth and last collective Impressionist exhibition in Paris at 1 rue Laffitte introduces Georges Seurat 's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte pontillism exhibited separately.[1] June 30 – Royal Holloway College for women, established by patent medicine manufacturer Thomas Holloway (died 1883), opened by Queen Victoria at Egham in Surrey , England, incorporating a picture gallery for which the founder has acquired a collection of predominantly modern British works; this is the first art gallery in Britain intended primarily for viewing by women.July – Paul Gauguin joins the Pont-Aven School of artists for the summer.
August 21 –September 21 – Second exhibition by the Société des Artistes Indépendants in Paris . Henri Rousseau exhibits for the first time and Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte Félix Fénéon to describe the technique of pointillism and chromoluminarist style being developed by Seurat and Paul Signac as neo-impressionism .[2] October 28 – Dedication of Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi 's Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor .P. H. Emerson publishes his first photographic book, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads .Publication in French of Irish-born writer George Moore 's autobiographical novel Confessions of a Young Man bohemian life in 1870s Paris among the Impressionists.
Publication of Émile Zola 's novel L'Œuvre Paul Cézanne . Degas – The Tub January – René Beeh , German painter and draughtsman from Alsace (died 1922 )
March 1 – Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian artist , poet and playwright (died 1980 )March 15 – Gerda Wegener , Danish artist (died 1940 )April 19 – Hermine David , French painter (died 1970 )June 14 – Archibald Nicoll , New Zealand painter (died 1953 )September 1 – Tarsila do Amaral , Brazilian modernist artist (died 1973 )September 16 – Jean Arp , Alsatian artist and writer (died 1966 )October 17 – Andrej Bicenko , Russian fresco painter and muralist (died 1973 )December 8 – Diego Rivera , Mexican painter and muralist (died 1957 )December 15 – Jean Paul Slusser , painter, designer, art critic, professor, and director of the University of Michigan Museum of Art (died 1981)Viktor Jansson , Finnish sculptor (died 1958 )Duncan Phillips , American art collector and critic (died 1966)References [ edit ] 
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