1892 in art

Events

• May – The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art
• November – "The Munch Affair": Adelsteen Normann, on behalf of the Union of Berlin Artists, invites Edvard Munch to stage a one-man exhibition. However, his paintings evoke bitter controversy and after one week the exhibition is closed; Munch's paintings are moved to the Equitable Palast.^[1]
• James McNeill Whistler stages his major retrospective exhibition, Nocturnes, Marines and Chevalet pieces at Goupil & Cie's London gallery, then moves to Paris.
• Claude Monet begins painting his Rouen Cathedral series
• Munich Secession

Awards

• Legion of Honour (France) – James McNeill Whistler

Works of art

Paintings

Poster by Toulouse-Lautrec

• Mrs. Hugh Hammersley
• Ivan Aivazovsky – Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships
• John Henry Frederick Bacon – The Wedding Morning
• Gustave Caillebotte
  • Nasturtiums
  • Portrait of the artist
• Gustaf Cederström – Magnus Stenbock in Malmö
• John Collier – Lilith
• Thomas Eakins – The Concert Singer
• James Ensor
  • Man of Sorrows (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp)
  • The Skate
• Paul Gauguin
  • Aha Oe Feii?
  • Spirit of the Dead Watching
  • When Will You Marry?
• J. W. Godward
  • At The Garden Shrine, Pompeii
  • The Betrothed
  • Classical Beauty
  • Far Away Thoughts (two versions)
  • Leaning On The Balcony
  • The Playground
  • With Violets Wreathed And Robe Of Saffron Hue
• P. S. Krøyer – Summer Evening at Skagen. The Artist's Wife and Dog by the Shore
• Sir Frederic Leighton – The Garden of the Hesperides
• Juan Luna
  • The Parisian Life
  • Peuple et Rois
• Jacek Malczewski
  • Christmas Eve in Siberia
  • Self-portrait with palette
• Francis Davis Millet
  • An Autumn Idyll
  • Between Two Fires
• Albert Joseph Moore – Lightning and Light
• Edvard Munch
  • The Artist's Sister, Inger
  • August Stindberg
  • Evening on Karl Johan
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
  • At the Moulin Rouge
  • At the Moulin Rouge: two women waltzing
  • Quadrille at the Moulin Rouge
  • Posters for Aristide Bruant
• Henry Scott Tuke – Mrs Florence Humphris
• Félix Vallotton
  • Bathers on a Summer Evening (1892–93)
  • The Invalid
• Édouard Vuillard – Self-Portrait

Sculptures

• Christopher Columbus (Sunol), New York City
• Charles E. Barber – United States Barber coinage
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – Bellona

Other

• The Diamond Trellis Egg is presented to Maria Feodorovna by her husband Alexander III of Russia

Births

• 13 February – Grant Wood, painter (died 1942).
• 14 May – Marjorie Watson-Williams, English painter (died 1984).
• 30 May – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (died 1972).
• 31 May – Michel Kikoine, painter (died 1968).
• 15 July – Walter Benjamin, German philosopher, "comparatists" and art critic (died 1940).
• July 19 – Suzanne Malherbe, French illustrator and designer (died 1972).
• July 24 – Marcel Gromaire, French painter (died 1971).
• 7 August – Einar Forseth, Swedish artist.
• 16 August – Otto Messmer, American animator (died 1983).
• 11 October – Anton Räderscheidt, German painter (died 1970).
• 16 October – Adolf Ziegler, German painter and politician (died 1959).
• 23 November – Romain de Tirtoff, Russian-born French artist and designer (died 1990).
• 7 December – Stuart Davis, painter (died 1964).
• Undated
  • Lang Jingshan, Chinese photographer (died 1995).
  • Veljko Stanojević, Serbian painter (died 1967).

Deaths

• January 11 – Amanda Sidwall, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1844)
• January 14 – Alexander Jackson Davis, American architect and illustrator (born 1803)
• January 20 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (born 1797)
• February 27 – Louis Vuitton, French designer (born 1821)
• March 3 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (born 1801)
• March 21 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (born 1858)
• June 1 – Louis Janmot, French painter (born 1814)
• October 5 – Albert Aurier, French Symbolist poet, art critic and painter (born 1865)
• October 7 – Thomas Woolner, English sculptor and poet (born 1825)
• October 29 – William Harnett, Irish American trompe l'oeil painter (born 1848)
• Undated
  • John Lewis Brown, French painter (born 1829)
  • Walter Hood Fitch, British botanical artist (born 1817)
  • Serafino De Tivoli, Italian painter (born 1826)

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