1898 in art

List of years in Art

Events

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Works

Paintings

*Paul Gauguin - "The White Horse" (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
*Edvard Munch - "Metabolism"

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).
*16 May - 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).
*26 May - Aaron Douglas, American painter (d.1979).
*17 June - M. C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist (d.1972).

July to December

*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).
*10 October - Lilly Daché, French milliner and fashion designer (d.1989).
*21 November - René Magritte, painter (d.1967).

Full date unknown

*Chambré Hardman, Irish photographer (d.1988).
*Georges Malkine, French painter, only painter to sign the Surrealist Manifesto of 1924 (d.1970).

Deaths

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