Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and Their ContemporariesThe artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. Their works at first shocked a conservative public; but their successive exhibitions, their magazine "Ver Sacrum", and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. This book traces the course of this development, of the Wiener Werkstatte that followed, and the individual works of the artists concerned. Klimt, Olbrich, Loos and Hoffmann in architecture and applied arts. In other fields Mahler, Freud and Schnitzler were influencing the avant-garde. Peter Vergo quotes extensively from the writings of contemporary reviewers, critics and the artists themselves. He has eye-witness accounts of the exhibitions, the opening of the Secession building, the work in progress on the Palais Stoclet and Kabarett Fledermaus. The result is a documentary study of the successes and failures, hopes and fears of the members of an artistic movement which is still admired today. |
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Foreword | 6 |
Secession | 18 |
Architecture and the Applied Arts | 87 |
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Academy Adolf Loos Alfred Roller appears applied arts architect architecture artists association ausgeführte Bauwerke Austrian art avant-garde Beethoven Beethoven-frieze Café Carl Moll ceiling church am Steinhof colour commission contemporary created critic Czeschka decoration drawings early Egon Schiele Einige Skizzen Engelhart façade famous figure Franz frieze Gustav Klimt Haus Hermann Bahr Hevesi Historisches Museum ibid important influence interior Josef Hoffmann Joseph Maria Olbrich Jugendstil Jurisprudence Khnopff kind Klinger Kolo Moser Kraus Kunst Kunstgewerbeschule Künstlerhaus Kunstschau later Loos's Mackintosh Mahler modern monumental mosaic Museum der Stadt Nebehay occasion Oesterreichische Galerie Oil on canvas ornament Oskar Kokoschka Otto Wagner painter Palais Stoclet period Philosophy picture Plate portrait poster Primavesi Projekte und ausgeführte Sacrum Schiele's sculptor Secession building Secession exhibition Secessionists Stadt Wien Stadtbahn Stoclet-frieze studies style University Paintings Ver Sacrum Vereinigung bildender Künstler Viennese Viennese public Villa Wärndorfer whole Wiener Werkstätte wrote