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Secession Building - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 48°12′1.86″N 16°21′56.43″E / 48.2005167°N 16.3656750°E

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Secession Building
Secessionsgebäude
Main facade of the Secession Building

General information
Type	Exhibition pavilion
Architectural style	Art Nouveau
Location	Vienna, Austria
Coordinates	48°12′1.86″N 16°21′56.43″E / 48.2005167°N 16.3656750°E / 48.2005167; 16.3656750
Construction started	1897
Completed	1898
Dimensions
Diameter	40 m × 30 m (131 ft × 98 ft)
Technical details
Floor area	1,000 m² (11,000 sq ft)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Joseph Maria Olbrich
Other designers	Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt
Website
www.secession.at

The Secession Building (German: Secessionsgebäude) is an exhibition hall in Vienna, Austria. It was completed in 1898 by Joseph Maria Olbrich as an architectural manifesto for the Vienna Secession,^[1] a group of rebel artists that seceded from the long-established fine art institution.

Description

The building features the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt,^[2] one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style (a branch of Art Nouveau, also known as Jugendstil in Germany and Nordic countries). The building was financed by Karl Wittgenstein,^[3] the father of Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit). Below this is a sculpture of three gorgons representing painting, sculpture, and architecture.

The building has been selected to figure on the national side of the €0.50 Austrian coin. 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 reverse depicts a detail from the Beethoven Frieze, which is housed in the building.

The Secession building is currently an artist-run kunsthalle centred around international contemporary art.

Images

The Secession Building in 2017
Secession Building façade
Foliage work detail
Jugendstil owls on the façade by Koloman Moser
The Beethoven Frieze, created by Gustav Klimt, is housed in the lower floor.
Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture
The Secession commemorative coin

Influences

Young Poland (Polish: Młoda Polska) was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918 during Austria-Hungary. Many of the exhibitions were held at the Palace of Art, also known as "Secession", of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, in Krakow Old Town.

References

^ "Secession - building". Secession: artist-run since 1897. Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^ "Secession - Beethoven frieze". Secession: artist-run since 1897. Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
^ Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius: p.8

External links

Media related to Secession Building, Vienna at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Vienna Secession
Key members	Josef Maria Auchentaller Wilhelm Bernatzik Adolf Michael Boehm Leopold Forstner Josef Hoffmann Gustav Klimt Max Kurzweil Maximilian Lenz Maximilian Liebenwein Carl Moll Koloman Moser Joseph Maria Olbrich Alfred Roller Othmar Schimkowitz Ernst Stöhr Otto Wagner
Major works	Secession Building (1898) Ver Sacrum (1898–1903) Beethoven Frieze (1902) Austrian Postal Savings Bank (1906) Kirche am Steinhof (1907) Stoclet Palace (1911)
Related	Wiener Werkstätte

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