1897 in art

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Events

• April 3 - Vienna Secession founded by artists including Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil. Secession hall designed by Olbrich.
• May 1 - Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek art museum opened in Copenhagen.
• At Giverny Claude Monet begins painting his Water Lilies series, which will continue until the end of his life.
• Bernard Berenson publishes Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance.

Works

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
1897, oil on canvas
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

Ogata Gekkō's Ryu sho ten, from his Views of Mount Fuji.

See also: Category:1897 sculptures

• Herbert James Draper - Pot Pourri
• Roberto Ferruzzi - Madonnina
• Akseli Gallen-Kallela - Lemminkäinen's Mother
• Paul Gauguin - Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
• Ogata Gekkō - Ryu sho ten (published 1898)
• Jean-Jacques Henner - Portrait of Mlle Fouquier
• Claude Monet
  • Branch of the Seine near Giverny (Mist)
  • Morning on the Seine near Giverny
  • The Seine at Giverny
• Camille Pissarro
  • Boulevard Montmartre
  • Boulevard Montmartre in Spring
  • Boulevard Montmartre on a Winter Morning
• Maurice Prendergast - Summer Visitors
• Henri Rousseau - The Sleeping Gypsy
• Arthur Wardle - The Totteridge XI
• Painters under the direction of Jan Styka - Transylvania Panorama (Lwów)

Births

• January 17 - Charles Ragland Bunnell, painter (died 1968)
• January 21 - René Iché, sculptor (died 1954)
• March 16 - Antonio Donghi, painter (died 1963)
• June 22 - Albert Renger-Patzsch, photographer (died 1966)
• June 26 - Victor Servranckx, painter (died 1965)
• August 19 - Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (died 1990)
• September 23 - Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (died 1994).

Deaths

• February 7 - Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (born 1816)
• March 21 - Ādams Alksnis, Latvian painter (born 1864)
• June 7 - Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (born 1809)
• October 5 - Sir John Gilbert, painter (born 1817)
• November 18 - Henry Doulton, potter (born 1820)
• date unknown - Owon (Jang Seung-eop), Korean painter (born 1843)