The year 1897 in art involved some significant events.
Events
Publications
Works
Births
- January 9 â Tyra Lundgren, Swedish painter, ceramist, glass and textile designer and writer on art (died 1979)
- January 17 â Charles Ragland Bunnell, American painter (died 1968)
- January 21 â René Iché, French sculptor (died 1954)
- March 16 â Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (died 1963)
- May 2 â Adolf HyÃ
Âa, Polish painter and art teacher (died 1965)
- May 21 â Nikola Avramov, Bulgarian painter (died 1945)
- June 3 â Georg Mayer-Marton, Hungarian-born graphic artist (died 1960)
- June 22 â Albert Renger-Patzsch, German photographer (died 1966)
- June 26 â Victor Servranckx, Belgian painter (died 1965)
- August 19 â Roman Vishniac, Russian American photographer (died 1990)
- September 23 â Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter (died 1994)
- October 27 â Lena Gurr, American painter and lithographer (died 1992)
- November 5 â Hilda Vëka, Latvian painter (died 1963)
Deaths
- February 7 â Charles Edward Boutibonne, French Classicist painter (born 1816)
- February 9 â George Price Boyce, English Pre-Raphaelite watercolour landscape painter (born 1826)
- March 21 â ÃÂdams Alksnis, Latvian painter (born 1864)
- May 20 â Jacques ÃÂmile ÃÂdouard Brandon, French artist (born 1831)
- June 7 â Victor Mottez, French fresco and portrait painter (born 1809)
- September 8 â James Milo Griffith, Welsh sculptor (born 1843)
- September 20 â Louis Pierre Mouillard, French artist and aviation pioneer (born 1834)
- October 5 â Sir John Gilbert, English painter (born 1817)
- October 8 â Alexei Savrasov, Russian landscape painter (born 1830)
- November 18 â Henry Doulton, English potter (born 1820)
- November 29 â Félix Pissarro, French-born painter, TB (born 1874)
- December 30 â Edward La Trobe Bateman, English-born Pre-Raphaelite watercolour painter, book illuminator, draughtsman and garden designer (born 1816)
- date unknown â Jang Seung-eop ('Owon'), Korean painter (born 1843)
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