The secession building at Vienna, built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich for exhibitions of the secession group

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The Vienna Secession or (also known as Secessionsstil, or Sezessionsstil in Austria) was part of that highly varied movement that is now covered by the general term Art Nouveau. It was formed in 1897 by a group of 19 Vienna artists who had resigned from the Association. The first President was Gustav Klimt. Image File history File links Beschreibung Description: Vienna Secession building / Wiener Secessionsgebäude Source: de:Bild:Secession. ... Image File history File links Beschreibung Description: Vienna Secession building / Wiener Secessionsgebäude Source: de:Bild:Secession. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Joseph Maria Olbrich (22 December 1867–8 August 1908) was an Austrian architect. ... The Sezession building in Vienna, Austria photograph by KF File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Sezession building in Vienna, Austria photograph by KF File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Alfons Mucha, lithographed poster Dancel (1898). ... Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. ...

Style of the Secessionists

Unlike other movements, there is no one style that unites the work of all artists who were part of the Vienna Secession. The Secession building could be considered the icon of the movement. Above its entrance was carved the phrase "to every age its art and to art its freedom". Secession artists were concerned, above all else, with exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition. They hoped to create a new style that owed nothing to historical influence. In this way they were very much in keeping with the iconoclastic spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna (the time and place that also saw the publication of Freud's first writings). Sigmund Freud His famous couch Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 - September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology, a movement that popularized the theory that unconscious motives control much behavior. ...

The Secessionist style was exhibited in a magazine that the group produced, called "Ver Sacrum", which featured highly decorative works representative of the Art Deco period. Asheville City Hall. ...

Sezessionsstil architects often decorated the surface of their buildings with linear ornamentation in a form commonly called whiplash or eel style. Otto Wagner's Majolika Haus in Vienna (c. 1898) is a significant example of the Austrian use of line. Otto Wagner Otto Koloman Wagner (13 July 1841–11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Slovenian: Dunaj, Croatian and Serbian: Beč Romanian: Viena, Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya;) Vienna is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Otto Wagner's way of modifying Art Nouveau decoration in a classical manner did not find favour with some of his pupils who broke away to form the Secessionists. One was Josef Hoffmann who left to form the Wiener Werkstätte, an Austrian equivalent of the Arts and Crafts Movement. A good example of his work is the Stoclet House in Brussels (1905). Josef Hoffmann (December 15, 1870 - May 7, 1956) was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. ... Wiener Werkstätte, German for Vienna Workshops, was founded in 19 May 1903. ... Artichoke wallpaper, by John Henry Dearle for William Morris & Co. ... Bold textItalic textBold text // Headline text Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (French: Bruxelles, Dutch: Brussel, German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French community of Belgium, the Flemish community and of the European Union. ...

Other Secession artists

• Gustav Klimt
• Egon Schiele
• Koloman Moser
• Oskar Kokoschka
• Carl Moll
• Marx Kurzweil
• Rudolph Bacher

Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 - February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. ... Egon Schiele, Self-portrait 1911 Mutter mit zwei Kindern Die kleine Stadt II Porträt des Albert Paris von Gütersloh Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. ... Venus in the Grotto (ca. ... Oskar Kokoschka (March 1, 1886-February 22, 1980) was an Austrian artist and poet, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. ... Carl Julius Rudolf Moll (1861 – 1945) was a prominent painter active in Vienna at the start of the 20th century. ...

Sources

• Schorske, Carl E. "Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego" in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. Vintage Books, 1981. ISBN 0394744780

External links

• Josef Hoffmann Biografie at WOKA (de/en)
• Wiener Werkstaette
• Arts and Crafts in Vienna 1900