1898
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I accuse Major Du Paty de Clam as the diabolic workman of the miscarriage of justice, without knowing, I have wanted to believe it, and of then defending his harmful work, for three years, by the guiltiest and most absurd of machinations. --"J'Accuse…!" (1898) by Émile Zola |
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Year 1898 is the 898th year of the 19th century and the 98th year of the 1890s.
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Art and culture
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Visual arts
- Lady Godiva by John Collier
- Dead Mother by Max Klinger
- Le spectacle by Viktor Leyren
- Nymphs Hunting by Julius LeBlanc Stewart
- Le Sphinx by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- August Endell on abstract art:
- "We stand at the threshold of an altogether new art- an art with forms which mean or represent nothing, recall nothing, yet which can stimulate our souls as deeply as only the tones of music have been able to." [...]
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Photography
- Nude study for a poster for Medea by Alphonse Mucha for a play Catulle Mendès
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at the beach at Le Crotoy, Picardie in 1898
- Photograph of Alfred Jarry on a bicycle
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Literature
- Kryptádia Vol. 5 (1898)
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Fiction
- White Stains, a collection of poetry by Aleister Crowley
- Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician by Alfred Jarry is written (published in 1911)
- The Woman and the Puppet by Pierre Louÿs
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Non-fiction
- Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers by Carl Heinrich Stratz
- "Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise" by Havelock Ellis
- Emile Zola's J'Accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair
- Affirmations by Havelock Ellis
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Film
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Births
- January 23 - Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (d. 1948)
- February 3 - Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (d. 1976)
- February 10 - Bertolt Brecht, German writer (d. 1956)
- May 16 - Tamara de Lempicka, Art Deco painter (d. 1980)
- June 5 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet (d. 1936)
- June 17 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (d. 1972)
- June 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German writer (d. 1970)
- July 17 - Berenice Abbott, American photographer (d. 1991)
- July 19 - Herbert Marcuse, German philosopher (d. 1979)
- July 22 - Alexander Calder, American artist (d. 1976)
- July 30 - Henry Moore, English sculptor (d. 1986)
- August 26 - Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)
- August 29 - Preston Sturges, American director and writer (d. 1959)
- September 26 - George Gershwin, American composer (d. 1937)
- November 11 - René Clair, French director (d. 1981)
- November 18 - Joris Ivens, Dutch director (d. 1989)
- November 21 - René Magritte, Belgian artist (d. 1967)
- November 29 - C. S. Lewis, British author (d. 1963)
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Deaths
- January 14 - Lewis Carroll, British writer, mathematician (b. 1832)
- March 16 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
- April 18 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
- July 7 - Félicien Rops , French artist (b. 1833)
- September 9 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (b. 1842)
- October 24 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (b. 1824)
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