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.{{cite book|editor-last=Wertheimer|editor-first=Asher|title=The Hope Collection of Pictures|year=1898|publisher=Chiswick Press|location=London|page=Introduction|no-pp=yes}}

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

2 July – Gen Paul, French painter (died 1975)
17 July – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (died 1991){{cite book|first=George|last=Sullivan|title=Berenice Abbott, Photographer: An Independent Vision|location=New York|publisher=Clarion Books|year=2006|page=9|isbn=978-0-61844-026-9}}
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)

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){{cite book |last1=Crawford |first1=Alan |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator |page=|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 |doi-access=free}}
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)