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2 unusual facts about Vienna Secession


Vienna Secession

Schorske, Carl E. "Gustav Klimt: Painting and the Crisis of the Liberal Ego" in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture.

Other significant works of Otto Wagner include The Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station in Vienna (1900), and The Austrian Postal Savings Bank or Österreichische Postsparkasse in Vienna (1904–1906).


Adolf Krischanitz

He served as the chairman of the Austrian Society for Architecture in 1982, and from 1991 to 1995 he was president of the Vienna Secession, a post first held by Gustav Klimt, one of the organization's co-founders.

Alfredo Carpaneto

As a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna ("Wiener Kunst Academy"), he was an Academy Professor Assistant and a member of the Vienna Secession as also had been Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and many other artists of his or previous eras.

Austria Classic Hotel Wien

Fine artist and playwright Stanisław Wyspiański, a Polish member of the Vienna Secession, resided in Hotel Nordbahn in summer 1904, en route from convalescent care in Bad Hall to his hometown Krakau.

Hagenbund

The group's most prominent members early on were Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, who had originally worked and exhibited within the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus, but now, like the Vienna Secession, rebelled against the establishment and formed their own organization.

Hotel Gellért

The hotel was erected on the right bank of the river Danube between 1916 and 1918 in the (Secession) Art Nouveau style with some biomorphic elements, at the foot of Gellért Hill, next to Szabadság Bridge.

Svetlin Rusev Donative Exhibition

The second storey mainly features contemporary Bulgarian painters, such as Nikola Manev, Vesa Vasileva, Encho Pironkov, Georgi Bozhilov, but also the oldest painting in the gallery, a 17th-century work by an unknown French author, as well as a painting by Vienna Secession artist Josef Bauer.


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Kate MacGarry

Francis Upritchard represented New Zealand at the Venice Biennale in 2009 and has had solo exhibitions at the Vienna Secession in 2010, Nottingham Contemporary in 2012 and MIMOCA in Kagawa, Japan in 2013.

Maximilian Liebenwein

The family were friends with Koloman Moser, who had been on the committee that invited Liebenwein to exhibit with the Vienna Secession.