1898 in art
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Events
- Berlin Secession.
- Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts, a company of artists and designers associated with the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded by sculptor Walter Gilbert in Britain.
- Käthe Kollwitz's cycle of lithographs and etchings The Weavers is first exhibited publicly.
- The term "Young Poland" is coined after a manifesto by Artur Górski, published in the Kraków newspaper Życie ("Life"), to signify the period of modernism in the Polish arts.
Works
Paintings
- Ivan Aivazovsky – Among Waves
- Teodor Axentowicz – Self-portrait
- Arnold Böcklin – Plague
- Edward Burne-Jones – The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon (completed)
- Luigi Crosio – Refugium Peccatorum Madonna
- Evelyn De Morgan – Helen of Troy
- Herbert James Draper – The Lament for Icarus
- Thomas Eakins – Salutat
- Paul Gauguin – The White Horse (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- J. W. Godward
- At The Gate Of The Temple
- Idle thoughts
- On The Balcony (first version)
- The Ring
- Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with young man reading
- Henri Matisse – Le Mur Rose
- Edvard Munch – Metabolism
- L. A. Ring – Ved frokostbordet og morgenaviserne ("At Breakfast")
- Therese Schwartze – Portrait of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in her coronation robes
- James Tissot – Self-portrait
- F. C. Yohn – Winter at Valley Forge - The Relief
Sculptures
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Other
- F. Holland Day
- The Seven Last Words of Christ, a series of photographs
- Study for the Crucifixion, a photograph
- Félix Vallotton – Intimités ("Intimacies"), a suite of woodcuts
Births
January to June
- 28 January - Milan Konjović, Serbian painter (died 1993)
- 3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (died 1976)
- 8 February – Jean Charlot, French painter and illustrator (died 1979)
- 14 March – Reginald Marsh, painter (died 1954)
- 16 May
- Jean Fautrier, painter (died 1964)
- Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (died 1980)
- 17 May – Alfred Joseph Casson, painter (died 1992)
- 21 May
- Armand Hammer, art collector (died 1990)
- John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (died 1976)
- 26 May – Aaron Douglas, American painter (died 1979)
- 17 June – M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (died 1972)
July to December
- 2 July – Gen Paul, painter (died 1975)
- 17 July – Berenice Abbott, photographer (died 1991)
- 22 July – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (died 1976)
- 30 July – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (died 1986)
- 31 July – Doris Zinkeisen, Scottish-born theatrical designer and commercial artist (died 1991)
- 26 August – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (died 1979)
- 16 September – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (died 1955)
- 25 September – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (died 1980)
- October 10
- Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (died 1989)
- Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (died 1970)
- November 21 – René Magritte, painter (died 1967)
- December 10 - Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (died 1977)
- date unknown - Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (died 1988)
Deaths
- 8 January - Achille Empéraire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne (born 1829)
- 25 February – Francis Frith, photographer (born 1822)
- 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, painter and illustrator (born 1872)
- 24 March – J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator (born 1831)
- 18 April – Gustave Moreau, Symbolist painter (born 1826)
- 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Pre-Raphaelite artist (born 1833)
- 29 July – Arturo Michelena, painter (born 1863)
- 8 August – Eugène Boudin, painter (born 1824)
- 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (born 1824)
- date unknown - Giulio Salviati, glassmaker and mosaicist (born 1843)
