
The Viennese Secession
Klimt, Schiele, and the art of modern ViennaBy Victoria Charles, Klaus CarlLength3h 55m
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A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a “total art”, without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period. Turning away from an established art and immersing themselves in organic, voluptuous, and decorative shapes, these artists opened themselves to an evocative, erotic aesthetic that blatantly offended the bourgeoisie of the time.
Painting, sculpture, and architecture are addressed by the authors and highlight the diversity and richness of a movement whose motto proclaimed “for each time its art, for each art its liberty” – a declaration to the innovation and originality of this revolutionary art movement.
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Table of contents
1Introduction
2PREFACE
3VIENNA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
4The World Fair of 1889
5Art in England at the End of the Century
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6Art on the Continent at the End of the Century
7Munich
8The Artists of the Munich Secession
9Artists of the Berlin Secession
10Vienna at the Turn of the Century
11The Künstlerhaus
12The Ver Sacrum Magazine
13The Secession II
14The Exhibition Centre of the Viennese Secession
15The Beethoven Frieze
16The Secession III
17Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten, 1862-1918, Vienna)
18Koloman Moser (Vienna, 1868-1918)
19Alfred Roller (Brno, 1864-1935, Vienna)
20Egon Schiele (Tulln, 1890-1918, Vienna)
21Other Viennese Artists
22WIENER WERKSTÄTTE: The Most Important Artists of the Wiener Werkstätte
23ARCHITECTURE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
24Foreword
25England and Belgium
26William Morris (Walthamstow, 1834-1896, London)
27Philip Speakman Webb (Oxford, 1831-1915, Worth/Sussex)
28Henry van de Velde (Antwerp, 1863-1957, Zurich)
29Victor Horta (Ghent, 1861-1947, Etterbeek)
30France: Hector Guimard (Lyon, 1867-1942, New York City)
31Austria
32The Architecture of the Ringstraße in Vienna
33Otto Koloman Wagner (Penzing district of Vienna, 1841-1918, Vienna)
34Joseph Maria Olbrich (Troppau, 1867-1908, Dusseldorf)
35Adolf Loos (Brno, 1870-1933, Kalksburg)