1893 in art

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May 1: World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago) with Romanesque statue of Columbia overlooking man-made lake.

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 are issued for the Exposition.
• The National Sculpture Society is founded.
• Alois Riegl's Stilfragen: Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichte der Ornamentik is published in Berlin.

Works

Paintings

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893

See also: Category:1893 paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - Unconscious Rivals
• Henrique Bernardelli - Messalini
• Olga Boznańska - Self-portrait
• Edgar Bundy - Antonio Stradivari at work in his studio
• Edward Burne-Jones - Love Among the Ruins
• Paul Cézanne - Basket of Apples
• Peder Severin Krøyer - Sommeraften ved Skagen Sønderstrand med Anna Ancher og Marie Krøyer
• Edvard Munch - The Scream
• Franz Stuck - The Sin
• Abbott Handerson Thayer - The Virgin

Births

January to June

• January 13 - Chaim Soutine, painter (d. 1943)
• March 3
  • Ivon Hitchens, English painter (d.1979)
  • Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d.1998)
• March 11 - Wanda Gag, children's author and artist (d. 1946)
• March 29 - Dora Carrington, painter and designer (d. 1932)
• April 9 - Charles E. Burchfield, American scene painter
• April 11 - John Nash, English painter, illustrator, and engraver (d.1978)
• April 20 - Joan Miró, Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist (d.1983)
• May 16 - Stella Bowen, painter (d.1947)

July to December

• July 3 - Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer (d.1976).
• July 8 - Abraham Rattner, painter and camouflage specialist (d.1978).
• July 26 - George Grosz, painter and draftsman (d.1959).
• September 15 - Rene Paul Chambellan, sculptor
• October 1 - Marianne Brandt, painter, sculptor and designer (d.1983).
• October 8 - Orovida Camille Pissarro, English painter and etcher (d.1968)
• October 9 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (d.1945)
• December - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (d.1979)
• December 29 - Berthold Bartosch, Bohemian animator (d.1968)

Deaths

• January 30 - Prince Grigory Gagarin, soldier and painter (b. 1811)
• February 21 - John Pettie, painter (b. 1839)
• March 16 - William H. Illingworth, American photographer (b. 1844)
• April 6 - George Vicat Cole, painter (b. 1833)
• September 25 - Albert Joseph Moore, painter (b. 1841)
• October 6 - Ford Madox Brown, painter (b. 1821)
• October 10 - Barthélemy Menn, painter and draughtsman
• October 29 - Gustav Mützel, animal painter (b. 1839)
• December 23 - Gunnar Berg, Norwegian painter (b. 1863)
• date unknown - Gustav Fabergé, jeweler (b. 1814)