the vienese secession purged viennese design of decorative excess

frank vacik, 1912

egon schiele, 1918

 

The Secession was in large part responsible for the meteoric rise to international fame of several of its members, including Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Koloman Moser, and Josef Hoffmann, who helped to a large extent put Austrian art back on the map during the first two decades of the 20th century and beyond.

koloman moser, tristan und isolde, 1919

 

The Vienna Secession's work is often referred to (during the years before World War I) as the Austrian version of Jugendstil, the German term for Art Nouveau. 

leopold stolba, design for ver sacrum, 1907

The decline of the movement happens around the early 1910s.

max kurzweill, dame in gelb, 1907

ernst störh, ver sacrum, 1901 

members of the Vienna Secession (1906) 

seated in big chair: Klimt, in front of Klimt, Moser; Störh with cap, reclining left: Carl Moll, man with hat and pipe: Leopold Stolba