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, to signify the period of modernism in the Polish arts.
• Henri Matisse marries Amélie Noellie Parayre and, on the advice of Camille Pissarro, goes to London to study the paintings of J. M. W. Turner, continuing to Corsica.
• The Hope Collection of Pictures is sold in London for the sum of £121,550.

Works

Paintings

• Edwin Austin Abbey – King Lear, Act I, Scene I
• Almeida Júnior – The Inopportune
• Ivan Aivazovsky – Among Waves
• Teodor Axentowicz – Self-portrait
• Arnold Böcklin – Plague
• Edward Burne-Jones – The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon
• John Collier – Godiva
• 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
• J. W. Godward
• *At The Gate Of The Temple
• *Idle thoughts
• *On The Balcony
• *The Ring
• Vilhelm Hammershøi – Interior with young man reading
• Edward Robert Hughes – The Shrew Katherina
• Gustav Klimt
• *Music II
• *Pallas Athene
• *Flowing water
• *Portrait of Sonja Knips
• *Portrait of Helene Klimt
• *Fish Blood
• Anna Elizabeth Klumpke – Rosa Bonheur
• Henri Matisse – Le Mur Rose
• Edvard Munch – Metabolism
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano
• L. A. Ring – Ved frokostbordet og morgenaviserne
• Therese Schwartze – Portrait of Wilhelmina of the Netherlands in her coronation robes
• Henry Ossawa Tanner – The Annunciation
• James Tissot – Self-portrait
• F. C. Yohn – ''Winter at Valley Forge - The Relief''

Sculptures

• Arthur Beter – Dutchy
• Camille Claudel – L'Implorante
• John S. Conway – The Victorious Charge
• Reinhold Felderhoff – Diana
• Daniel Chester French – Statue of Rufus Choate

Other

• F. Holland Day
• *The Seven Last Words of Christ, a series of photographs
• *Study for the Crucifixion, a photograph
• Félix Vallotton – Intimités, a suite of woodcuts
• Mary Seton Watts – Watts Cemetery Chapel, gesso interior decoration

Births

January to June

• 26 January – Katarzyna Kobro, Polish sculptor
• 28 January – Milan Konjović, Serbian painter
• 3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer
• 8 February – Jean Charlot, French painter and illustrator
• 14 March – Reginald Marsh, French-born American painter
• 6 April – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter and model
• 16 May
• *Jean Fautrier, French painter, practitioner of tachisme
• *Tamara de Lempicka, born Maria Górska, Polish-born Art Deco painter
• 17 May – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter
• 21 May
• *Armand Hammer, American art collector
• *John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter
• 17 June – M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist

July to December

• 2 July – Gen Paul, French painter
• 17 July – Berenice Abbott, American photographer
• 22 July – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist
• 30 July – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor
• 31 July – Doris Zinkeisen, Scottish-born theatrical designer and commercial artist
• 26 August – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector
• 12 September – Arkady Shaikhet, Ukrainian-born Soviet documentary photographer
• 16 September – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor
• 25 September – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher
• 10 October
• *Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer
• *Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924
• 21 November – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter
• 6 December – Alfred Eisenstaedt, Prussian-born American photographer
• 10 December – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter
• date unknown – E. Chambré Hardman, British photographer

Deaths

• 8 January – Achille Empéraire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne
• 25 February – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer
• 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator, of tuberculosis
• 24 March – J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator
• 18 April – Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter
• 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English Pre-Raphaelite artist
• 29 July – Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter
• 8 August – Eugène Boudin, French landscape painter
• 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter
• date unknown - Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist