![]() Their most influential architectural work was the Secession Building designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich as a venue for expositions of the group. They resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for more traditional artistic styles. The Vienna Secession ( German: Wiener Secession also known as the Union of Austrian Artists, or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) is an art movement, closely related to Art Nouveau, that was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffman, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt. Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner ![]() Klimt worked until his death shortly after a stroke, in 1918.Top: Secession Building in Vienna designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich (1897–1898) Bottom: Excerpts of the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt (1902) He also continued to produce landscapes, which he had begun at the time of the founding of the Secession and his interest in modernism. ![]() However, he withdrew it, due to impending controversy over its explicit representation.ĭuring the First World War Klimt was no longer taking public commissions, and worked on portraits for private patrons of the Vienna elite. The piece was intended for display at the retrospective of his work at the 18th Exhibition of the Secession in 1903. There are small decorative features throughout the work, including flowers in the woman's hair and specks of gold and linear designs in the background. Behind her are despairing figures and a skull suggesting death. Klimt's Hope I (1903), in the National Gallery of Canada collection, depicts a pregnant woman, standing nude in profile. Meanwhile, he was awarded a gold medal for Philosophy when it was exhibited at the Universal Exposition in Paris. Over the course of 10 years the project he met criticism and protest from the public, members of parliament and press for what were deemed to be erotic and ugly images. He was commissioned to paint three allegorical panels representing Philosophy, Medicine and Jurisprudence for the ceiling of the Great Hall of the University of Vienna in 1894. Klimt was elected president and the group secured its own exhibition space and published an illustrated magazine. The two brothers and fellow classmate Franz Matsch formed a partnership to work on public commissions in 1883, carrying out numerous decorative commissions, including paintings for the Burgtheater and Kunsthistorische Museum in Vienna.ĭuring the period when Klimt became interested in Symbolism and Art Nouveau, he and 15 others resigned from the Viennese Artist's Association and founded the Vienna Secession (1897). His younger brother Ernst joined him there in 1877. Public commissions were the basis of his early success, but he later broke with traditional Viennese art society and formed the Vienna Secession, promoting the advancement and exposure of modern art in Austria.Īt 14 years of age in 1876, Klimt received a scholarship to the School of Applied Arts in Vienna where he studied drawing and decorative painting until 1883. Although he is best known for his paintings, however he also produced thousands of drawings. Gustav Klimt explored the themes of beauty, eroticism, life and death through his subjects, embellishing them with richly patterned surfaces. "Whoever wants to know something about me must observe my paintings carefully and try to see in them what I am."
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