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 | | 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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