1883  

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L'Art moderne by Huysmans, Huysmans was also known for his art criticism: L'Art moderne (1883) and Certains (1889). He was an early advocate of Impressionism, as well as an admirer of such artists as Gustave Moreau and Odilon Redon.

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1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) is the 883rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 19th century, and the 4th year of the 1880s decade.

Events

• August 26–August 27 – Krakatoa volcano erupts at 10:02 AM (local time); 163 villages are destroyed, 36,380 killed by tsunami.*Les XX founded

Art and culture

Visual culture

• Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe by Arthur Sapeck
• The Misshapen Polyp Floated on the Shores, a Sort of Smiling and Hideous Cyclops by Odilon Redon

Fiction

• Contes cruels, a collection of stories French writer Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

Non-fiction

• L'Art moderne by Joris-Karl Huysmans
• "The Right to Be Lazy", an essay by Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist Paul Lafargue

Births

• Franz Kafka
• Benito Mussolini
• José Ortega y Gasset
• Sax Rohmer
• Edgard Varèse
• Walter Gropius
• Lon Chaney, Sr.

Deaths

• Gustave Doré
• Ivan Turgenev
• Karl Marx
• Edouard Manet