1898
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Art and culture
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Visual arts
- Lady Godiva (c. 1898) John Collier
- Dead Mother (1898) - Max Klinger
- Max Klinger's version of Fuseli's Nightmare.
- 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." --August Endell, 1898.
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Literature
- The She Devils by Pierre Louÿs
- White Stains by Crowley
- Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, pataphysician by Jarry is written
- Die Schönheit des Weiblichen Körpers by Carl Heinrich Stratz
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Film
- UK: Film censorship
- The first ever demand for film censorship in Britain came in 1898 from a mortified cheese industry following a scientific film by Charles Urban revealing the bacterial activity in a piece of Stilton
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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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