1898 in art

List of years in art (table)
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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.

Evelyn De Morgan – Helen of Troy

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
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

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

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)

Photogravure of a portrait of Edward Burne-Jones by his son Philip Burne-Jones, 1898

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)

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)