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| | Vienna 1900 |
 | | In art and architecture, central developments of the "Modernist" movement, which re-mapped the landscape of Western culture, took root in fin-de-siècle Vienna. |
 | | The architectural work of Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner, for example, but also of Maks Fabiani, Josef Hoffmann, Friedrich Ohmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Plecznik would culminate only decades later in the German Bauhaus, whose goal was to liberate architecture from a concern with style. |
 | | In painting, the Viennese Secessionist school produced, in the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka, radical departures from artistic tradition in its unabashed exploration of erotic themes. |
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