6/24/2023 0 Comments Vienna secession artistsThe Architecture: The ground plan and cross-section of the Secession reveals very simple geometrical forms. Only six months later, on 29 October 1898, the construction was complete. The cornerstone was laid on 28 April 1898 within the framework of a small celebration. ![]() Joseph Maria Olbrich design the building over the course ten months, continually modifying his designs to correspond to new requirements, while reviewing and refining them at the same time. ![]() The Municipality of Vienna allocated the site along the Wienzeile. The necessary financial resources for construction was partly supplied by patrons, especially the industrial magnate Karl Wittgenstein, and partly from the proceeds of the first exhibition in the k.k.Gartenbaugesellschaft (Royal and Imperial Gardening Society). It was only after the site was transferred to a plot on Friedrichstrasse that the Municipal Council granted permission for âthe erection of a provisional exhibition pavilion for the period of the next ten yearsâ (minutes of the meeting of the Municipal Council of 17 November, 1897). A site along the Ringstrasse was originally chosen, but Olbrichâs designs met with violent reaction on the part of the Municipal Council. The Secession members commissioned the hardly 30-year-old architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, who was at the time a member of Otto Wagnerâs atelier, to design the building, which was to become a key work of Viennese Art Nouveau. first exhibition was held in the greenhouses of the Society of Horticulture and Klimt designed a poster depicting Theseus and the Minotaur under the protective gaze of Athena who was to become a recurrent figure throughout Klimtâs involvement with the Secessionists. Photo: Photographic archives of the Austrian National Library, Moriz Nähr There was no strict coda or written philosophy attached to the Vienna Secession but to strive for âart as lifeâ or an art which did not distinguish between âgreat artâ and the crafts, or art for the rich and art for the poor, was high on their agenda. Left to right: Anton Stark, Gustav Klimt (in armchair), Kolo Moser (in front of Klimt, wearing hat), Adolf Böhm, Maximilian Lenz (reclining), Ernst Stöhr (with hat), Wilhelm List, Emil Orlik (sitting), Maximilian Kurzweil (wearing cap), Leopold Stolba, Carl Moll (reclining), Rudolf Bacher. Group portrait of Vienna Secession members on the occasion of the XIV exhibition in 1902. This conflict between new ideals and the establishment came to a head in 1897 when forty members of the Kunstlerhaus seceded and founded their own association with Gustav Klimt as their president. The Kunstlerhaus was, in Gustav Klimtâs eyes, directed by commercial motivations which were limiting in their disregard of foreign artists and maintained art as something separate from the lives of the majority of the Austrian people. The Vienna Secession grew out of a dissatisfaction with the traditional practices of the Kunstlerhausgenossenschaft an association which could have been called the Vienna Academie.
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