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''
* 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''
* 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

*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)

References

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Years of the 19th century in art
1890s in art