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This building was a masterpiece done by Gustav Klimt, one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style. It is even on the national side of the Austrian coin (.50). The Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffman. Because Vienna was becoming a growing metropolis and it was supposed to be represented that way. They were inspired by arts and craft and organic geometries, essentially an abstract architecture. The building has a covered courtyard structure, it provided for gallery space on all sides of a large top-lit rectangular exhibition hall in the center. The materials used in this building was mainly masonry and metal. the crowning element sketched by Klimt included a perforated metal dome, suspended between four pylons and set above profiled planar masses. The slogan of the Secessionist movement is written above the entrance of the pavilion: "To every age its art, to every art its freedom”. Below the motto, the...

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...