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Overview of the events of 1894 in art
The year 1894 in art involved some significant events.
Events
Awards
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Works
Cézanne –
Rideau, Cruchon et Compotier
Births
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9 January –
Reg Gammon,
English painter and illustrator (died
1997)
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8 March –
Wäinö Aaltonen,
Finnish sculptor (died
1966)
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17 March –
Meredith Frampton, English portrait painter (died
1984)
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10 April –
Ben Nicholson, English
abstract painter (died
1982)
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19 April –
Adolf Wissel, German painter, an official artist of
Nazism (died
1973)
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22 April –
Evie Hone,
Irish painter and stained glass artist (died
1955)
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27 April –
George Petty,
American pin-up artist (died
1975)
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17 May –
Zora Petrović, one of the most significant representatives of
Expressionism of color in
Serbian art between two wars (died
1962)
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6 June –
Arthur Szyk, Polish-born illustrator and political artist (died
1951)
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13 June –
Jacques Henri Lartigue, French
photographer and painter (died
1986)
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28 June –
Ronald Ossory Dunlop,
Irish author and painter (died
1973)
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2 July –
André Kertész, Hungarian-born photographer (died
1985)
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14 July –
Dave Fleischer,
Austrian-American
animator,
film director, and
film producer (died
1979)
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26 August –
Gala Dalí, model and wife of
Salvador Dalí (died
1982)
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3 September –
André Hébuterne,
French painter (died
1992)
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7 October –
Doris Huestis Speirs,
Canadian painter, ornithologist and poet (died
1989)
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8 October –
Risto Stijović,
Serbian sculptor (died
1974)
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14 October –
E. E. Cummings, American poet and painter (died
1962)
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4 November –
Chafik Charobim, Egyptian painter (died
1975)
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8 November –
Norman Rockwell, American painter and
illustrator (died
1978)
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8 December –
James Thurber, American cartoonist (died
1961)
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27 December –
Annot, German painter (died
1981)
- date unknown
W.W. Story –
Angel of Grief (1894)
Deaths
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January 3 –
Gustav Fabergé, German jeweler (born
1814)
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January 10 –
Carl Werner, German watercolour painter (born
1808)
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January 29 –
Armand Gautier, French painter (born
1825)
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February 13 –
Georg Decker, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter (born
1818)
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February 21 –
Gustave Caillebotte, French painter and arts patron (born
1848)
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April 12 –
Lucy Madox Brown, English painter (born
1843)
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April 27 –
Charles Laval, French painter (born
1862)
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June 17 –
William Hart, Scottish American landscape painter (born
1823)
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July 1 –
Jean-Joseph Carriès, French sculptor and ceramicist (born
1850)
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July 25 –
Per Hasselberg, Swedish sculptor (born
1850)
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August 5 –
Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter (born
1854)
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August 30 –
Joseph Robinson Kirk, Irish sculptor (born
1821)
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September 26 –
Launt Thompson, Irish sculptor (born
1833)
- date unknown –
Charles Burton Barber, English genre painter (born
1845)