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One of the great European capitals, Vienna was for centuries home to the Babsburg rulers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
From the 18th century on, Vienna was famous throughout Europe particularly for the music.
Another outstanding period in the city’s history came at the turn of the last century when there was a revolutionary artistic explosion called the Secession.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Secession
Secession is the act of withdrawing from an organization, union, or political entity.
Calls for the "secession of blue/red states" are typically used in a satirical or partisan manner.
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.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gustav Klimt
The secession building at Vienna, built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich for exhibitions of the secession group another view 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.
Klimt was one of the founding members and president of the Wiener Sezession (Vienna Secession) in 1897, and of the group's periodical Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring).
In 1902 Klimt finished the Beethoven Frieze for the 14th Vienna Seccessionist exhibition, which was intended to be a celebration of the composer.
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 Diigo - Juniorbonner's Bookmarks tagged vienna   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Vienna's modern movement, for all its brilliance, was fighting a losing battle against a city dominated by a mouldy imperial style, a place whose blend of old and new, capitalism and bureaucracy, seemed, in the eyes of writers and artists, nothing short of insane.
The Secession was a breakaway from Vienna's conservative art institutions and the pompous historical painting fashionable in the late 19th century.
The Vienna Secession, an avant-garde group of artists, many of whom are associated with Jugendstil, the German variant of art nouveau, saw this building completed in time for their second exhibit, designed by one of their members.
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The Vienna Secession or (also known as Secessionsstil, or Sezessionsstil in Austria) was part of the highly varied Secessionism movement that is now covered by the general term Art Nouveau.
The Vienna Secession was founded on April 3, 1897 by artists Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, Otto Wagner, and others.
The Secession artists objected to the prevailing conservatism of the Vienna Künstlerhaus with its traditional orientation toward Historicism.
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 Vienna Secession and Vienna modernism
The Vienna Secession or (also known as Secessionstil, or Sezessionstil in Austria) was part of that highly varied movement that is now covered by the general term Art Nouveau.
Beginning with the 14th Exhibition of the Vienna Sezession in 1902, the radical distinctiveness of certain Viennese artists began to emerge, setting a foundation for the widespread Modernist movement.
Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” (Nautz/Vahrenkamp).
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The movement organised its own exhibitions (the association´s Secession building built by J. Olbrich was opened in 1898) and the association´s official magazine, "Ver Sacrum" (1898-1903), were meant to attract the attention of a broad international public.
The Secession and the Künstlerhaus were merged in 1939, the Secession was re-established as an independent association in 1945 and the organisation of exhibitions with international artists participating was taken up again.
It was still the aim of the Secession to promote its individual members, who formed a heterogeneous group of artists, and thus also contemporary art as a whole.
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 Diigo - Juniorbonner's Bookmarks tagged architecture
Secession architecture and the basis of modernism, later to be put into practice by younger artists ("Schützenhaus" building at the weir at Kaiserbad on the Danube Canal, Vienna, 1904-1906).
Wagner was born in Penzing, a suburb of Vienna.
With his father, he designed many churches (of Mechitaristi in Vienna, of Giubileo in Privoz and the parochial church of Temesvar), yet he was also dedicated to the professional activity of urbanism, establishing plans for expansion of Olmutz, Teschen, Lubiana, besides the general plans of Mahrisch-Ostrau and Marienberg.
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  Architecture in Vienna
It is the seat of the mayor and governor of Vienna, the city council, and the Assembly.
Vienna had suffered through a series of plague epidemics during the seventeenth century, and when the most devastating one ended in 1679, the emperor commissioned a Plague Column (Pests?le).
Vienna Secession architects Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann, and Adolf Loos made skillful use of glass, steel alloy, and aluminum.
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 ArtandCulture Movement: Vienna Secession Design   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Vienna Secession was an artistic rebellion that sprouted from the coffee shops of its namesake city.
It was a Secession in the truest sense, as artists like Gustav Klimt, Kolomon Moser, Josef Hoffman, and Joseph Maria Olbrich declared their official rejection of the tightfisted Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunstlerhaus exhibition society in 1897.
The word “Secession” heads the poster and the tails of the three “S”s sweep long and lean down the poster’s empty space.
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 Vienna Secession, modern artists, Gustav Klimt's, Beethoven Frieze, sightseeing, photo
In 1897, a group of modern artists founded the Vienna Secession., Their goal was to find ways in which to reflect modern life.
In this, they opposed the conservative artistic trends prevalent in Vienna at the turn of the century.
Part of the Secession building houses a fixed collection of modern art, among which the Klimt frieze is the most famous.
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Accounts of Austrian modernism often begin with the founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897, but a true understanding of this seminal event requires at least a summary review of Austrian art over the course of the preceding century.
Help from the city government enabled the Secession to secure land for an exhibition hall with record speed, and the building itself was constructed within a few months.
The Secession lost most of its sparkle after the departure of the Klimtgruppe, and it was not until May 1908 that Vienna could boast of an exhibition comparable in caliber to those held before 1905.
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 Tate | Glossary | Secession
In the same year this was followed by the Berliner Secession, led by Max Liebermann and later Lovis Corinth, and in 1913 by the Freie Secession in which Max Beckmann and Ernst Barlach were involved.
The most famous secession group is the Vereinigung bildener Künstler Oesterreichs (Secession) founded in 1897 and generally known simply as the Vienna Secession.
It was led by one of the greatest of all Symbolist painters, Gustav Klimt.
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 Art in GlaxoSmithKline Artpoint - Secession art celebrations   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Due to their thoroughly artistic and boisterous character, many visitors still remember the legendary Secession "Spektakel" celebrations in the 50ies and 60ies as the main attractions of the Viennese carnival season.
The multitude and magnitude of invitations received, programmes, tickets and ballroom presents, which for these occasions were particularly extravagantly designed, demonstrate the lavish social life and the pronounced Viennese festival culture at the commencement of the 20th century.
In-between the brick ruins of the federal capital Vienna, the spirit of emergence arose in the shape of a newly organized art movement, attracting artists from all over the country and initiating a rapid catching up.
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 Art in Vienna, Austria - Secession, Gustav Klimt's Beethoven Frieze
Even by today's standards the Secession is a daring building with its cupola of golden laurel leaves and its art deco facade.
It is one of the keyworks of Viennese Art Nouveaux architecture and was planned and built by Joseph Maria Olbricht, a student of Otto Wagner, to serve the needs of an artist association Olbricht himself belonged to.
In 1902 the artist association planned an exhibition as a hommage to the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven, whose music suited the secessionists idea of the 'gesamtkunstwerk'.
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 Boston Globe Online / Travel
Chief among them was the centennial of the founding of the Vienna Secession, the group of more than 20 cranky artists, led by Klimt, who rejected the conservative arts establishment.
That was appropriate, because it was with the founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897 that modern Viennese visual art blossomed.
Vienna Secession -- In ``A Century of Artistic Expression: 100 Years Vienna Secession,'' a major commemorative exhibit, about 250 works by 100 artists will be displayed.
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 Aaccessmaps.com presents information about Vienna, northeast
For centuries Vienna (Wien) was the capital of a multinational empire, and to this day Vienna remains the cultural capital for central Europe.
In 1815 when the Vienna Congress established European Order for the next century, Vienna with two million souls was the fourth largest city in the world, head of a multinational realm of 55 million.
The distinctive Secession building was designed and built by Josef Maria Olbrich in 1898 as a home for the Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession.
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The Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 under the leadership of the famous Austrian draughtsman, engraver and painter Gustav Klimt as a protest against prevailing artistic thinking.
Another prominent representative of the Vienna Secession was the engraver and poet Oskar Kokoschka.
In the former imperial stables are the Ludwig Museum, the Leopold Foundation, the Kunsthalle, the Zoom children's museum, the Vienna Architecture Centre and "quartier 21", a platform for contemporary art.
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 Vienna - Secession and the Bermuda Triangle
The secessionist movement at the turn of the century was a reaction against the dominance of classicist techniques.
Originally meant as a temporary exhibit, to be destroyed after a year, the frieze was preserved and moved to and from the Secession Building several times.
Yup, nightlife is nonexistent in Vienna, except for the
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Vienna was a late bloomer among the European art centers that rebelled against the entrenched academism of art in the twilight years of 19th century.
Yet the Vienna Secession group, founded by Gustav Klimt and others in 1897, spawned one of the most distinctive and long-lived creative movements of the fin de siecle.
A mix of impulses played into the creation and remarkable spread of the Vienna Secession, not the least of which was the command Vienna held in commerce at the turn of the 20th century, even as the Austro-Hungarian Empire waned.
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 Secession: modern art in Austria and Germany 1890s-1920s
Secession displayed European posters, prints, drawings, books, glass, ceramics, objects and textiles made in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1920, in order to show this exciting period in the development of modern art.
The revolution in art and design that occurred in Austria and Germany at the turn of the 20th century was known as the Secession.
This exhibition examined the work of famous artists and designers associated with the Vienna Secession as well as the Munich and Berlin Secessions.
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 E-Flux : New Presidency of the Secession - (2006-06-04)
At the vote on May 16, Barbara Holub was elected President of the Secession by a large majority.
The electoral procedure, the subject of heated debate prior to the vote, led to the formation of an almost entirely new board, rather than following the alternative suggestion made by Barbara Holub of allowing individual candidates to be chosen from a list.
Besides continuing to position itself within the international context, the Secession also plans to experiment with cultural practices.
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 Timisoara & the Secession (Art Nouveau / Jugendstil architecture of 'Little Vienna')
The Secession in Romania was an important link between the Byzantine styles such as those promoted mainly in the south and east by Constantin Brâncoveanu, from which it gained ideas, and the later modernist architecture.
Typical of the first phase of the Secession in Timisoara are the residential apartments lining Bulevardul 3 August 1919 between the city centre and the Fabric District to the east.
The second phase of the Secession in Timisoara is typified by the impressive apartment buildings (1911-13) of Piata Victoriei and the immense Piarist College, Monastery and Church (Szekely 1907-1912) near the Orthodox Cathedral.
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The 6th Secession exhibition in 1900 was devoted exclusively to Japanese art, in acknowledgement of its importance as one of the foundations of European modernism and also of the indigenous linear skill and decorative planarity of "Jugendstil".
In 1903 the Secession mounted a large Impressionist exhibition that traced the influence of works by El Greco (Domenicos Theotokopoulos), Diego Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens, Jan Vermeer, Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) and Francisco Goya through to the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
The Secession was also responsible for introducing Edvard Munch's work to Vienna, and this must have acted on Schiele as a confirmation of his own endeavours.
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 AUSTRIA
We want to bring foreign art to Vienna not just for the sake of artists, academics and collectors, but in order to create a great mass of people receptive to art, to awaken the desire which lies dormant in the breast of every man for beauty and freedom of thought and feeling.
The mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger was in favor of the enterprise for a new building and Rudolf Mayreder, Julius' brother, was on Vienna's city council.
Its self-advertised purpose in the programme was 'to serve the cause of a true entertainment-culture by means of an organized, unified synthesis of all relevant artistic and hygienic elements.' This became the new haunt of the circle which had frequented the Cafe Central including Bahr and the poet Peter Altenberg, friend of Warndorfer.
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 Vienna Secession history by Senses-ArtNouveau.com
OOn 19th May, 1903 another association, the Wiener Werkstätte (German for The "Vienna Workshop") was registered in Vienna.
The founders, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, both members of the Vienna Secession, wanted to provide an outlet for graduates from the Kunstgewerbeschule.
At that time Klimt, Auchentaller, Boehm, Hoffmann, Moser and Roller, seceded from the Secession on the grounds that they could no longer be associated with the more realistic naturalists who refused to commit themselves to the "total work of art", a fundamental premise of the Secessionist Movement.
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