His work featured primarily floral patterns and linear drawings influenced by Japanese woodcuts which were popular during that time. He gave his contribution to the magazine Ver Sacrum, a Secessionist publication. Josef Maria Auchentaller was an Austrian artist associated with the Vienna Secession and the Art Nouveau style. Images source: by Tulip Hysteria / Go to albums Images source: by Tulip Hysteria / Go to albums Giuditta e la testa di Oloferne (Judith and the Head of Holofernes), Gustav Klimt (1901). Among the most representative of works are: “Judith”, “Danae” and the masterpiece “The Kiss”. Starting with his Pallas Athena in 1898, Klimt created many masterpieces that made extensive use of ornamental gold leaf, reminiscent of Byzantine mosaics, precious to depict striking iconic figures.

Klimt’s “ Golden Phase” was very important. He was also the principal figure of the Viennese Art Nouveau movement of graphic arts. Gustav Klimt was famous for the highly decorative style of his paintings. In fact, when Olbrich won the internal competition. Image source: by Muesse Villa Wagner I (1886–88) The Secession is one of the few Vienna attractions that ripped local tastes apart: It was designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich and revolutionary artists of the Association of Visual Artists of Austria, among them Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Koloman Moser, as their own exhibition house in 1898. His two private mansions, Villa Wagner I and Villa Wagner II were built for each one of his marriages. Built with reinforced concrete, metal, stone, and glass, it celebrates light, air, and the pureness of functionalism with the new usage of materials. One of the most transformative projects by Otto Wagner, another important figure to this movement, was the Austrian Postal Savings Bank that took ten years to plan. The Secession is designed to be used in many different ways, a challenge taken up by artists who have engaged with the buildings interior as well as exterior. Aside from the permanent presentation of Gustav Klimts Beethoven. the Sanatorium Purkersdorf– Garden side entrance. For its 120-year anniversary the Secession building will present itself renewed and shiny. In 1906, Hoffmann projected his first important building on the outskirts of Vienna, the Sanatorium Purkersdorf. Josef Hoffmann was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods. Vienna Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich.-(Secession hall) However, its cupola of metal openwork with abundant floral ornaments was unmistakably Art Nouveau in quality. Bold and simple, it consisted of juxtaposed huge blocks and had a particular orientalizing aspect. This building was finished in 1898 and caused a sensation in Vienna. Immediately Olbrich started to design their headquarters. Joseph Maria Olbrichwas an influent architect of the Austrian Art Nouveau and one of the founders of the Vienna Secession. These shows were scheduled by the Association of Austrian Artists, which ran the Kunstlerhaus (Artists’ House) favoring the conservative artists who built up a majority of its members, generally discouraging efforts in the decorative and applied arts. The reverse depicts a detail from the Beethoven Frieze, which is housed in the building.The Secession grew out of a dissatisfaction of artists with the system of expositions of contemporary artworks in the city during the 1890s. It also appears as the main motif of one of the Austrian gold collectors' coins: the 100 euro Secession commemorative coin, minted in November 2004, on the obverse side. The building has been selected to figure on the national side of the €0.50 Austrian coin. Below this is a sculpture of three gorgons representing painting, sculpture, and architecture. The motto of the Secessionist movement is written above the entrance of the pavilion: 'To every age its art, to every art its freedom' ( German: Der Zeit ihre Kunst. The building was financed by Karl Wittgenstein, the father of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The building features the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt, one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style (a branch of Art Nouveau, also known as Jugendstil in Germany and Nordic countries).

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