# 1898 in art

The year 1898 in art involved some significant events.

## 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.
* 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
* José Ferraz de 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 (completed)
* 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 (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
* 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 ("At Breakfast")
* 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 (The Implorer)
* 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 ("Intimacies"), a suite of woodcuts
* Mary Seton Watts – Watts Cemetery Chapel (Compton, Surrey, England), gesso interior decoration

## Births
### January to June

* 26 January – Katarzyna Kobro, Polish sculptor (died 1951)
* 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, French-born American painter (died 1954)
* 6 April – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter and model (suicide 1920)
* 16 May
** Jean Fautrier, French painter, practitioner of tachisme (died 1964)
** Tamara de Lempicka, born Maria Górska, Polish-born Art Deco painter (died 1980)
* 17 May – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (died 1992)
* 21 May
** Armand Hammer, American art collector (died 1990)
** John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (died 1976)
* 17 June – M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (died 1972)

### July to December

* 2 July – Gen Paul, French painter (died 1975)
* 17 July – Berenice Abbott, American 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)
* 12 September – Arkady Shaikhet, Ukrainian-born Soviet documentary photographer (died 1959)
* 16 September – Leslie Garland Bolling, African American sculptor (died 1955)
* 25 September – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (died 1980)
* 10 October
** Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (died 1989)
** Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (died 1970)
* 21 November – René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (died 1967)
* 6 December – Alfred Eisenstaedt, Prussian-born American photographer (died 1995)
* 10 December – Ivan Tabaković, Serbian painter (died 1977)
* date unknown – E. Chambré Hardman, British photographer (died 1988)

## Deaths

* 8 January – Achille Empéraire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne (born 1829)
* 25 February – Francis Frith, English topographical photographer (born 1822)
* 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, English illustrator, of tuberculosis (born 1872)
* 24 March – J. L. K. van Dort, Ceylonese illustrator (born 1831)
* 18 April – Gustave Moreau, French Symbolist painter (born 1826)
* 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English Pre-Raphaelite artist (born 1833)
* 29 July – Arturo Michelena, Venezuelan painter (born 1863)
* 8 August – Eugène Boudin, French landscape painter (born 1824)
* 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (born 1824)
* date unknown - Giulio Salviati, Italian glassmaker and mosaicist (born 1843)