The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. During the two decades before the mass destruction of World War 1, the artists of the Secession inspired an eruption of creative brilliance that still reverberates today. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum and their promotion of the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage.
Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their Contemporaries, now published in its fourth edition, brilliantly traces the course of this development.Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were the leading figures in the fine arts, in concert with a wide circle of other sculptors, painters and designers; Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Adolf Loos and Josef Hoffmann were highly influential in architecture and the applied arts. In other fields, figures such as the composer Gustav Mahler, the dramatist Arthur Schnitzler, and Sigmund Freud were also having an impact on the avant-garde and on European society generally.
Fully revised and updated, and with a new introduction and illustrations, Art in Vienna includes eyewitness accounts of exhibitions, the opening of the Secession building and other events, and fascinating translations of newspaper commentary and reviews of the day.Featuring some 150 colour images and 75 black-and-white archival illustrations, the result is a sumptuous and historically compelling study both of the period as a whole,and of an artistic movement still much admired today.
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