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.

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

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)