1899 in art

Births

• January 20
• Pierre Gandon, French illustrator and engraver of postage stamps (died 1990)
• Clarice Cliff, English ceramic artist (died 1972)
• February 15
• Lillian Disney, American artist and wife of Walt Disney (died 1997)
• Grethe Jürgens, German painter (died 1981)
• February 22 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (died 1986)
• March 20 – G. David Thompson, American industrialist and collector of modern art (died 1965)
• April 3 – Borislav Bogdanović, Serbian portraitist (died 1970)
• April 27 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist and animator (died 1994)
• May 22
• Kosta Hakman, Serbian painter (died 1961)
• Pan Yuliang, Chinese-born painter (died 1977)
• June 2 – Lotte Reiniger, German silhouette animator and film director (died 1981)
• June 12 – Anni Albers, born Annelise Fleischmann, German-born textile artist and printmaker (died 1994)
• July 3 – Else Halling, Norwegian tapestry weaver (died 1987)
• July 16 – Božidar Jakac, Slovene painter and graphic artist (died 1989)
• July (unknown day) - Isaac Frenkel Frenel, Israeli French painter and sculptor (died 1981)
• August 10 – Margarete Heymann, German-born ceramic artist (died 1990)
• August 19 – Bradley Walker Tomlin, American painter (died 1955)
• September 9 – Brassaï, Hungarian photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker (died 1984)
• September 24 – William Dobell, Australian sculptor and painter (died 1970)
• December 4 – Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, German avant-garde painter (euthanized 1940)
• December 25 – Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American painter (died 1987)

Deaths

• January 29 – Alfred Sisley, French Impressionist painter (born 1839)
• January 30 – Harry Bates, English sculptor (born 1850)
• March 27 – Myles Birket Foster, English illustrator and watercolour painter (born 1825)
• May 25 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter (born 1822)
• July 21 – Louis Eysen, German painter (born 1843)
• July 29 – Adolf Schreyer, German painter (born 1828)
• August 22 – Caspar Buberl, American sculptor (born 1834)
• November 13 – Almeida Júnior, Brazilian painter (born 1850)
• December 7 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (born 1857)
• December 23 – Dominique Antoine Magaud, French painter (born 1817)
• date unknown – François Salle, French realist painter (born 1839)

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