1898 in art

List of years in art       (table)
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Events

• Berlin Secession.

Works

Evelyn De Morgan – Helen of Troy

Paintings

• 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)
• Henri Matisse – Le Mur Rose
• Edvard Munch – Metabolism
• James Tissot – Self-portrait

Sculptures

See also: Category:1898 sculptures

• John S. Conway – The Victorious Charge

Other

• Félix Vallotton – Intimités ("Intimacies"), a suite of woodcuts

Births

January to June

• 3 February – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and designer (d. 1976)
• 8 February – Jean Charlot, French painter and illustrator (d. 1979)
• 14 March – Reginald Marsh, painter (d. 1954)
• 16 May
  • Jean Fautrier, painter (d.1964).
  • Tamara de Lempicka, Polish Art Deco painter (d. 1980)
• 17 May – Alfred Joseph Casson, painter (d. 1992).
• 21 May
  • Armand Hammer, art collector (d.1990).
  • John McLaughlin, American hard-edge painter (d.1976).
• 26 May – Aaron Douglas, American painter (d.1979).
• 17 June – M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (d.1972).

July to December

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

• 2 July – Gen Paul, painter (d.1975).
• 17 July – Berenice Abbott, photographer (d.1991).
• 22 July – Alexander Calder, American sculptor and artist (d.1976).
• 30 July – Henry Moore, English artist and sculptor (d.1986).
• 26 August – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d.1979).
• 25 September – Robert Brackman, Ukrainian-born American artist and teacher (d.1980).
• October 10
  • Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (d.1989)
  • Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (d.1970)
• November 21 – René Magritte, painter (d.1967).
• date unknown - Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (d.1988).

Deaths

• 8 January - Achille Empéraire, French painter and friend of Paul Cézanne (b. 1829)
• 25 February – Francis Frith, photographer (b. 1822)
• 16 March – Aubrey Beardsley, painter and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 18 April – Gustave Moreau, Symbolist painter (b. 1826)
• 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Pre-Raphaelite artist (b. 1833)
• 29 July – Arturo Michelena, painter (b. 1863)
• 8 August – Eugène Boudin, painter (b. 1824)
• 24 October – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (b. 1824)