Vienna Secession

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The exhibition house of the Viennese artists' association "Secession"

The Vienna Secession is an association of visual artists in Vienna from the time of the fin de siècle . Derived from this, the Viennese variant of Art Nouveau is also called Secession Style or Viennese Art Nouveau .

history

The Vienna Secession was on April 3, 1897 by Gustav Klimt , Koloman Moser , Josef Hoffmann , Joseph Maria Olbrich , Max Kurzweil , Josef Engelhart , Ernst Stöhr , Wilhelm List , Adolf Hölzel and other artists as a splinter group ( Secession ) from the Vienna Künstlerhaus founded, since the artists rejected the conservatism prevailing at the Künstlerhaus and the traditional - historicism- oriented - concept of art . The model was the Munich Secession . The first exhibition took place in 1898. In the same year, the most important Austrian art magazine Ver Sacrum was founded. To the left of the entrance door is the motto Ver Sacrum ("Holy Spring"), which is supposed to express the hope for a new artificial blossom.

Portal of the exhibition house

In 1898 the exhibition house was also built according to designs by Otto Wagner student Joseph Maria Olbrich . The property in the 1st district of Innere Stadt on Wienzeile near Karlsplatz and Naschmarkt was made available by the City of Vienna. This exhibition building is also known for short in Vienna as “ the Secession ”.

The group achieved great merits with its exhibition policy, which made the French impressionists accessible to the Viennese public. The 14th exhibition of the Secession in 1902 , which was dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven (“Beethoven Exhibition ”) , became famous . The arrangement of the exhibition came from Josef Hoffmann . The focus was on the Beethoven statue by Max Klinger . 20 Secession artists and one artist created wall-related works (paintings, mosaics, reliefs, sculptures, fountains, furniture), Gustav Klimt executed the Beethoven frieze as a wall painting in the first exhibition room , which has been in the possession of the Republic of Austria since 1975. After the renovation of the building in 1985/86 by Adolf Krischanitz , the Beethoven frieze was installed in a climatic room in the basement.

In 1903 Hoffmann and Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte as a production group of visual artists with the aim of reforming the arts and crafts.

On June 14, 1905, Gustav Klimt and a group of artists (including Koloman Moser and Carl Moll ) left the Vienna Secession because of differences of opinion in the art conceptions.

The Vienna Secession is still an important exhibition center for contemporary art in Vienna. The board of directors invites artists to develop exhibitions especially for the Secession.

President

Honorary President

Other historical members of the Secession

literature

Web links

Commons : Wiener Secession (Viennese Art Nouveau)  - collection of images, videos and audio files