The Vienna secession in the 1897 marked, quite accurately. This was the formal beginning of modern art in Austria. The nation in time noted for its attachment to a highly conservative tradition. (The Art Story. 2019). At the beginning, Gustav Klimt lead the movement. Provided the secessionists’ in large visual representations work of new intellectual and cultural flowering of Vienna around 1900. It was often referred as the Austrian version of Jugendstil. (The Art Story. 2019).

The Secession one in large part responsible for the meteoric rise to international frame of several of its members including Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Koloman Moser, who helped put Austrian art back on the map during the first two decades of the 20th century and beyond. The Secession was founded to promote innovation in contemporary art not to foster the development of any one style. (“The Vienna Secession Movement Overview”, 2019).

The Secession Building in Vienna is the movement’s physical and spiritual home and its permanent visual form. Designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, a young architect and former student of Otto Wagner. The buildings dome was led to be caked “The Golden Cabbage”, for the lattice of leaves on the dome. (“The Vienna Secession Movement Overview”, 2019).

The Vienna Secession was a very eccentric movement. In the contemporary style of the movement I chose and image of a room. Within this room there are two sides, one with a Secessionist side and the other, Loos. On the Vienna Secessionist side of the room, sleek curvilinear lines of Chippendale were replaced by the bold straight lines and dramatic stacked geometric shapes that foreshadowed Art Deco that came three decades later. The paintings were of the artists back then Hoffmann and Moser.

The Secessionist had no unifying characteristics, but due to Klimt’s painting it had caused great controversy. Many could then differentiate between the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau. (“Vienna Secession: History, Characteristics”, 2019). The beauty of the work that was created in the Vienna 1900 exhibit was organized to contrast the differing opinions and approach between Adolf Loos and artists as the Secessionist Moser and Hoffmann.

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