Vienna Sezession

(1870-1933) an Austrian and Czech architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture Dismayed by the work of the Vienna Sezessionists, Loos publishes "Ornament und Verbrechen" in 1908 Hates 'pretty' architecture

Adolf Loos

Gustav Klimt 1907-1908 Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere

Die Kuss

Oskar Kokotschka 1914 Kunstmuseum Basel

Die Windsbraut

1848-1916 Austro- Hungarian Empire Consisted of the Kingdoms of Austria and Hungary, and the provinces of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpathia, Tyrolia, Slovenia, Croatis....

Emperor Franz Joseph

1862-1918 an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.

Gustav Klimt

(1870-1956) an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods who co-established Wiener Werkstätte Villa Spitzer, 1900 Moll/Moser House, 1901 Villa Henneberg, 1901

Joseph Hoffmann

(1867-1908) Austrian architect and co-founder of the Vienna Secession. Worked for Otto Wagner, the Austrian architect, and probably did the detailed construction for most of Wagner's Wiener Stadtbahn (Metropolitan Railway) buildings.

Joseph Olbrich

(1868-1918) an Austrian artist who exerted considerable influence on twentieth-century graphic art and one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte

Koloman Moser

(1841-1918) "We do not waltz around in the costume of Louis IXV" Worked in the Ringstrasse architecture studio. Vienna succession leading Architect in early years Later became a trailblazer of modernism Early work looked at historical references, but became increasingly radical Published the book "Moderne Architecktur" 1895

Otto Wagner

Egon Schiele 1912 Private Collection

Self-Portrait

1897-1905 an art movement formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus. This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects.

The Vienna Secession

established in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann, was a production community of visual artists in Vienna, Austria bringing together architects, artists and designers working in ceramics, fashion, silver, furniture and the graphic arts

Wiener Werkstatte