The Viennese Secession [electronic resource] / Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl.

ISBN:

9781780428079

Title:

Author:

Charles, Victoria.

Personal Author:

Charles, Victoria.

Uniform Title:

Wiener Secession. English

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Contents:

Vienna in the second half of the 19th century -- The World Fair of 1889 -- Art in England at the end of the century -- Art on the continent at the end of the century -- The precursors of the Viennes secession in Munich and Berlin -- Munich -- Berlin -- The Viennese Secession -- Vienna at the turn of the century -- The Kunstlerhaus -- The Secession I -- The Ver Sacrum magazine -- The Secession II -- The exhibition centre of the Viennese Secession -- The Beethoven frieze -- The Secession III -- Artists of the Viennese Secession -- Gustav Klimt -- Koloman Moser -- Alfred Roller -- Egon Schiele -- Other Viennese artists -- Wiener Werkstatte -- The most important artists of the Wiener Werkstatte -- Architecture in the second half of the 19th century. England and Belgium -- France -- Austria.

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Corporate Subject:

Wiener Secession.

Subject Term:

Art, Austrian -- Vienna -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Carl, Klaus H.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2011

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Summary

A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire.Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a "total art", without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period. Turning away from an established art and immersing themselves in organic, voluptuous, and decorative shapes, these artists opened themselves to an evocative, erotic aesthetic that blatantly offended the bourgeoisie of the time.Painting, sculpture, and architecture are addressed by the authors and highlight the diversity and richness of a movement whose motto proclaimed "for each time its art, for each art its liberty" - a declaration to the innovation and originality of this revolutionary art movement.