Vienna Secession
Austrian art revolt
The Vienna Secession was an art movement founded in 1897 when a group of Austrian artists broke away from the conservative Vienna Artists' Association.
Led by Gustav Klimt, the Secessionists rejected academic art traditions in favor of newer styles and international influences, embracing Art Nouveau and what would become early modernism.
Their motto was "To every age its art, to art its freedom." The movement's distinctive exhibition building, with its golden dome of laurel leaves, remains a Vienna landmark.
- goldElement seventy-nine
- fin de siècleCentury's closing cultural moment
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- Austro-Hungarian EmpireDual monarchy until 1918
- GesamtkunstwerkArtwork uniting all forms
Gustav Klimt · Symbolism · frieze · mural painting · pavilion · ornamental design · decorative arts · Klimt · line · lithography · furniture design · glass · sensual · erotic · aesthetic · decorative · textile patterns · cabbage
- art exhibitionsgalleries, art shows, exhibits, gallery shows, group show
- art historyart history, Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art
- Modern Artcubism, Cubism, Fauvism, dadaism, Dadaism
- art movementsPop Art, pop art, Impressionism, impressionism, Surrealism
- design stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, art nouveau, Bauhaus, minimalism
- european aestheticsbaroque, rococo, art nouveau, art deco, gothic
Vienna SecessionRoyal Academy
Arts institution with crown patronage
Vienna SecessionBauhaus
Influential modernist design school
International Style · functionalism · minimalism · brutalism