The Vienna Secession was a group of Austrian artists, designers and architects who broke away from the conservative Association of Austrian Artists in 1897. Its first president was the painter Gustav Klimt, and other members included Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich. They wanted to give space to new and international art, in a style closely related to Art Nouveau and known in German as Jugendstil. The group built its own exhibition hall in Vienna in 1898, designed by Olbrich and topped with a gilded dome of laurel leaves, and published a journal called Ver Sacrum. The Secession held exhibitions that introduced foreign artists and gave Austrian art new visibility, though the movement split in 1905 when Klimt and others left.
Before and after
- 1897Electron
- 1897Origins of Boston Marathon
- 4 February 1897Birth of Ludwig Erhard
- from 9 February 1897 to 21 February 1897Benin Expedition of 1897
- 3 April 1897Rise of Vienna Secession
- 3 April 1897Death of Johannes Brahms
- from 17 April 1897 to 20 May 1897Greco-Turkish War of 1897
- 23 April 1897Birth of Lester B. Pearson
- 26 May 1897Publication of Dracula
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