Take a walk around the building to see the owl designs by Koloman Moser. Be sure to visit the bookshop with a good selection of Secession and Jugendstil related books and materials. Museum admission also includes access to Klimt’s Beethoven Frieze in the basement. This museum lives up to the Secession motto “To every age its art- To every art its freedom” by continuing to exhibit the work of contemporary artists. Secession Museum– Home of the original Secession building in Vienna. The Albertina Museum – The Albertina Museum in Vienna has the best collection of Viennese Art Nouveau graphics as well as Wiener Werkstätte postcards. Of particular interest is their collection of Dutch Art Nouveau book design and their excellent library.īelvedere Museum -The Belvedere holds Vienna’s largest collection of oil paintings by Gustav Klimt as well as some works by Schiele. The Wolfsonian Museum– Nestled in beautiful Miami Beach, this museum has a vast collection of Art Nouveau graphics and posters. Superb collection of Klimt and Schiele and the home of Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bauer. Secession Building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1897/98, Vienna, photographed by the author Since the artists of the Vienna Secession needed a place to exhibit their works, they commissioned Joseph Maria Olbrich to build them an exhibition space. The Neue Gallery – This New York museum is America’s answer to the Leopold Museum. Leopold Museum– The Leopold Museum in Vienna specializing in Klimt, Egon Schiele, Kokoschka and the Vienna Secession. According to the materials from which it is made, each individual object is also associated with the respective part of the MAK Collection. Among other things, the MAK owns the most comprehensive collections of furniture, objects, and designs by Josef Hoffmann. ![]() The MAK is also home to the world’s largest museum collection of Wiener Werkstätte objects, covering the association’s entire productive period. Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) – Perhaps the best museum in the world for Secession and Wiener Werkstätte period objects. Click on an artist to view a gallery of their work. If you would like to contribute an image, please contact me. I am constantly updating these galleries and adding new artists. In its current form, the Secession exhibition gallery is independently led and managed by artists.Here is a list of museums with permanent collections on Vienna Secession, Jugendstil and art Nouveau related objects. This gallery features the work and biographies of leading German and Austrian artists working in the Secession, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau style. ![]() ![]() In 1905 the group itself split, when some of the most prominent members, including Klimt, Wagner, and Hoffmann, resigned in a dispute over priorities, but it continued to function, and still functions today, from its headquarters in the Secession Building. Their official magazine was called Ver Sacrum ( Sacred Spring, in Latin), which published highly stylised and influential works of graphic art. Their most influential architectural work was the Secession Building designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich as a venue for expositions of the group. In total 925 postcards were printed between 1907-1920, some in very limited runs and other in runs of up to 1000. Here it produced stationary, ex-libris, book design and what some consider it’s crowning achievement: postcards. ![]() They resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for more traditional artistic styles. The Wiener Werksttte devoted and entire floor of it’s factory at 32-34 Neustiftgasse to graphic art. The Vienna Secession ( German : Wiener Secession also known as the Union of Austrian Artists, or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt.
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