1827
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Cora Kneeling at the Feet of Tamenund (1827) by Thomas Cole
Related e |
Featured: |
1827 was the 27th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1820s decade.
Contents |
[edit]
Art and culture
[edit]
Literature
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur
- "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition" by Walter Scott
- Jud Süß by Wilhelm Hauff
- "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" by de Quincey
- Cromwell by Victor Hugo and its preface, considered a manifesto of Romanticism
- Thomas Moore The Epicurean
- The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman by Jules Janin
- The Last Days of Immanuel Kant by Thomas De Quincey
[edit]
Visual culture
[edit]
Media
- Dead media
- Watson's British Optical Telegraph (1827)
- Australian Optical Telegraph (Watson system) (1827)
- Nicéphore Niépce: invention of photography
- March 16 - Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and published newspaper in the United States, is founded in New York City by John Russwurm.
[edit]
Music
- Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello by Franz Schubert
[edit]
Births
- May 11 - Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
- October 15 - Mihály Zichy, Hungarian painter (d. 1906)
- October 16 - Arnold Böcklin, German painter (d. 1901)
[edit]
Deaths
- March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
- April 3 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)
- April 22 - Thomas Rowlandson, British caricaturist (b. 1756)
- August 12 - William Blake, English poet and artist (b. 1757)
- October 10 - Ugo Foscolo, dramatist
- November 18 - Wilhelm Hauff, poet and novelist
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "1827" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.