Events from the year 1881 in art.
Events
Works
Births
- January 4 â Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (suicide 1919)
- January 5 â Pablo Gargallo, Aragonese painter and sculptor (died 1934)
- February 4 â Fernand Léger, French painter (died 1955)
- February 11
- Carlo CarrÃÂ, Italian painter (died 1966)
- Robert Borlase Smart, English painter and critic (died 1947)
- April 10 â William John Leech, Irish painter (died 1968)
- April 16 â Fortunino Matania, Italian-born illustrator and war artist (died 1963)
- July 12 â Natalia Goncharova, Russian theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died 1962)
- July 28 â Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (died 1946)
- July 29 â Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (died 1967)
- August 4 â Wenzel Hablik, Bohemian painter, graphic artist, designer (died 1934)
- October 4 - René Gimpel, French artbdealer (died 1945)
- October 25 â Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor (died 1973)
- December 8 â Albert Gleizes, French painter (died 1953)
- December 31 â Max Pechstein, German painter (died 1955)
- uncertain
- William Conor, Irish painter (died 1968)
- Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish painter (died 1937)
Deaths
- January 3 â Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (born 1804)
- January 24 â James Collinson, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1825)
- February 9 â Jacques-ÃÂdouard Gatteaux, French sculptor and medal engraver (born 1788)
- March 11 â Thomas Brigstocke, Welsh portrait painter (born 1809)
- May 24 â Samuel Palmer, English painter, etcher and lithographer (born 1805)
- July 25 â Edward Charles Williams, English landscape painter (born 1807)
- December 6 â Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned; born 1819)
- December 13 â John Quidor, American painter (born 1801)
- December 14 â Berndt Godenhjelm, Finnish painter (born 1799)
- December 21 - Francesco Hayez, Italian historical, portrait and political painter (born 1791)
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