The vienna secession




The vienna secession
The vienna secession was an art movement during 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who resigned from the AAA (Association of Austrian Artists). It is also the beginning of the modern art in Austria during that time Austria is known for their conservative traditional arts. Those artists who bravely left that association were the one thinking forwarded about the view of art.  
Vienna was one of the capital from old Austria Hungary which was a region to different nationalities in Europe. The Empire of the Hungary remained undeveloped industrialization and also conservative political, culture, social and economic. Even though the empire has a lot of different metropolitans Vienna has been undisputed capital always.  Franz Joseph reminded in throne for 68 years till he died. But later on Vienna became home for a lot of artists due to the revolution movements.
The goal of the Association of Austrian Artists were to explore their modern art with the public and collectors. The artist of the secessions really wanted full freedom for them from the commercialism of art work. The artist intentions were to unite people like them who are thinking outside of the box, make relationship with international artists, and to create a new artist expression.
There were only three architects who joined the secessions and one of them were Josef Olbrich. He was an architect for the New Building of Vienna secession.



While Olbrich was designing the building he inspired the Art Nouveau elements and he also used a lot of geometric forms in a simplify way. It was the first Secession exhibition in the Horticultural Society building. It was built on the old vegetable market and it was intentionally located there so it can be close to numbers of important places like national institute, Universities, and Kunstlerhaus itself. 
The white windowless façade that foreshadows Bauhaus and there are also four pillars on the front and two more at the doorway. There is also an eye catchy golden cabbage placed on top of the building. It is a classical antiquity in the owl and gorgon. It is also representing the Athena the goodness of wisdom and victory to express the guardian of the arts.


 Citations



“A HISTORY.” Vienna Secession - A History, www.theviennasecession.com/vienna-secession/.
“The Vienna Secession Movement, Artists and Major Works.” The Art Story, www.theartstory.org/movement-vienna-secession.htm.
 









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