”Īt the same time, artistic centers were created in different cities of Germany, especially in Munich, Berlin, and especially in Darmstadt. This is not an aesthetic debate, but a confrontation between two states of mind. Trade or art is the challenge of our Secession. “Our art is not a struggle of modern artists against the ancients, but the promotion of the arts against peddlers who pretend to be artists and who have a commercial interest in not letting art flourish. The literary critic Hermann Bahr defines the objectives of the Secession in the first issue of the journal Ver Sacrum: In order to achieve their goals, they will create their own exhibition space, the Secession Palace, built according to the plans of Josef Maria Olbrich.įor these young artists, art must be at the origin of a new conception of existence. To put a new, genuine artistic expression to the faded art of Viennese official salons. To fight against the nationalist impulse of the European countries The Viennese Secession was officially founded in Vienna in April 1897 as part of the Association of Visual Artists of Austria which aimed to:īring together the creative forces of this country Īdvocate an international exchange of ideas It develops around the magazine Ver sacrum, which is the “official organ of this group of Austrian artists”, as indicated by the subtitle of this monthly launched in January 1898. The Viennese Secession, meanwhile, develops in the wake of the German artistic turmoil, but in a different way, in the form of a group of architects and visual artists created in 1897 by Josef Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann and Gustav Klimt, who will be the president, under the name of Secessionsstil. This group is centered around the Munich magazine Jugend from 1896, then around the magazine Pan, appeared in stride. A group of artists, forming around Fritz von Uhde, Wilhelm Trübner, Franz von Stuck, Eugene Spiro and Arnold Böcklin, refuses the conformism gradually installed in the artistic conceptions of the time. The first Secession takes place in Munich in 1892 and is, in its beginnings, mainly pictorial. This current is, by convention and post, attached to the Art Nouveau and Jugendstil, huge momentum of renewal of artistic forms that knows all the West in the late xix th century Vienna Secession nevertheless has its own characteristics, manifestos, exhibitions and artists, with Vienna as an anchor, but also Prague, Budapest and other cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Viennese Secession (German: Sezessionsstil or Wiener Secession) is an art movement that flourished in Austria, especially in Vienna, between 18.
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