1893 in art

List of years in Art

Events

* May 1 - The 1893 World's Fair, also known as the World's Columbian Exposition, opens to the public in Chicago, USA, with a Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking the man-made lake. The first United States commemorative postage stamps were issued for the Exposition.

* The National Sculpture Society is founded.

Awards

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Works

Paintings

*Henrique Bernardelli - "Messalini"
*Olga Boznańska - "Self-portrait"
*Edgar Bundy - "Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio"
*Edward Burne-Jones - "Love Among the Ruins"
*Peder Severin Krøyer - "Sommeraften ved Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer"
*Edvard Munch - "The Scream"
*Franz Stuck - "The Sin"

culptures

Births

January to June

*3 March - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d.1998).
*3 March - Ivon Hitchens, English painter (d.1979).
*11 March - Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (d.1946).
*29 March - Dora Carrington, painter and designer (d. 1932).
*9 April - Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter.
*11 April - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (d.1978).
*20 April - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (d.1983).
*16 May - Stella Bowen, painter (d.1947).

July to December

*26 July - George Grosz, painter and draftsman (d.1959).
*15 September - Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor.
*1 October - Marianne Brandt, painter, sculptor and designer (d.1983).
*9 October - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d.1945).
*29 December - Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d.1968).
*December - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (d.1979).

Full date unknown

*Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d.1976).
*Abraham Rattner, painter and camouflage specialist (d.1978).
*Chaim Soutine, painter (d. 1943).

Deaths

*January 30 - Prince Grigory Gagarin, soldier and painter (b. 1811)
*March 16 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (b. 1844)
*April 6 - Vicat Cole, painter (b. 1833)
*October 6 - Ford Madox Brown, painter (b. 1821)
* Gustav Fabergé, jeweler (b. 1814)