1898 in art

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

Evelyn De Morgan – Helen of Troy

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

• John S. Conway – The Victorious Charge

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

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)

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)