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The Vienna Secession (German: Wiener Secession; also known as the Union of Austrian Artists or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt. [1]
He provided sculpture for other Vienna Secession landmarks including the three gorgons on the 1898 Secession Building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and for two other famous buildings by Hoffmann; the Kirche am Steinhof church in Vienna, and the rooftop sculpture of angels the Austrian Postal Savings Bank. The sculptures and other ornaments were ...
The enterprise evolved from the Vienna Secession, founded in 1897 as a progressive alliance of artists and designers.From the start, the Secession had placed special emphasis on the applied arts, and its 1900 exhibition surveying the work of contemporary European design workshops prompted the young architect Josef Hoffmann and his artist friend Koloman Moser to consider establishing a similar ...
He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte. Moser designed a wide array of art works, including books and graphic works from postage stamps to magazine vignettes; fashion; stained glass windows, porcelains and ceramics, blown glass, tableware, silver, jewelry, and furniture.
The Gallia family Hoffman apartment collection is a set of furniture and decorative objects that are the surviving Vienna Secession style contents of the 1913 apartment of wealthy Austrian businessman Moritz Gallia and his wife and Hermine, mostly designed by leading architect and designer Josef Hoffman.
Otto Koloman Wagner (German: [ˈɔto ˈkoːloman ˈvaːɡnɐ] ⓘ; 13 July 1841 – 11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect, furniture designer and urban planner.He was a leading member of the Vienna Secession movement of architecture, founded in 1897, and the broader Art Nouveau movement.
Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station in Vienna, Austria. Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station is a former station of the Viennese Stadtbahn. The buildings above ground on Karlsplatz are a well-known example of Jugendstil architecture. These buildings were included in The Vienna Secession, as they followed many
Mathilde Flögl (9 September 1893 - 1958) was an Austrian artist and designer. [1] [2] She worked in several different mediums including textiles, glass, and paint. [3]Flögl was also a member of the Wiener Werkstätte, literally translated to the Vienna Workshops.