Events from the year 1880 in art.
Events
Awards
Works
Births
- February 1 â C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died 1957)
- February 3 â Frances Darlington, English relief sculpture (died 1940)
- February 8 â Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916)
- March 2 â Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died 1937)
- March 21 â Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died 1966)
- April 4 â William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died 1969)
- April 7 â Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (died 1930)
- May 6 â Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke (suicide 1938)
- June 10 â André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died 1954)
- August 2 â Arthur Dove, American painter (died 1946)
- August 22 â George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died 1944)
- November 19 â Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)
Deaths
References