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Vienna Secession
The Viennese artists' association founded in 1897 around Gustav Klimt, which opened the city to modern art and united painting with design.
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Above the entrance to Joseph Maria Olbrich's exhibition building in Vienna (1897–98), beneath a dome of gilded laurel leaves, runs the motto “To every age its art, to art its freedom”. Olbrich built it for painters, architects and designers who had left the conservative artists' society in 1897, electing Gustav Klimt their first president.
The Secession set out to connect Vienna with modern art abroad and to treat design as seriously as painting. Its exhibitions presented French Impressionists, Auguste Rodin and, in 1900, the Glasgow designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald; its journal Ver Sacrum (1898–1903) fused text, lettering and ornament. For the 1902 exhibition honouring Beethoven, Klimt painted the Beethoven Frieze. Look for flat, gold-touched decoration, elongated figures and, increasingly, strict squares and grids in the work of Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann. Klimt and his circle left in 1905, but the building still shows contemporary art.
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