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• #VIENNA SECESSION ART GALLERY BOOK CRACKED#

And the first step was an exhibition hall. The new Secession movement was founded by artists like Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich and others.Īs they weren’t allowed to show their art in traditional exhibitions, they had to organize some on their own.

They wanted to express themselves in a new, young way, and to create an original art style that wasn’t a mere copy of former styles. However, the young secessionist artists objected strongly to this uninspired concept of art. In total, the Secession staged 23 exhibitions between 18. This conservatism in art was later referred to as Historicism. This attracted artists such as the French Impressionists, Auguste Rodin, and the Belgian Symbolists. The trendy style in architecture was a melting pot of all previous styles, often put together in one building. In painting and sculpture, a true-to-life depiction of “classical” motifs was promoted, especially biblical, mythological or historical scenes. This traditional approach restricted the artists in their choice of artistic style and subject. This new art movement, which was similar to other Art Nouveau movements in Europe, was critical of the traditional confines of art as it was taught at the renowned art academies.Īt the time, the prevailing artistic style was conservative and retro-minded. Ver Sacrum : The Vienna Secession Art Magazine 1898-1903 £39.95 Tax included. Only 2 copies listed on OCLC/WorldCat (Oxford and the German National Library).The Art Nouveau Movement’s Exhibition Hall in Vienna, which is mostly referred to as Vienna Secession Building, was erected in 1897, supervised by its architect Joseph Maria Olbrich.Īt the end of the 19th century, a group of young Viennese artists seceded from the long-established Association of Austrian Artists and founded a group of their own, which they called Vienna Secession (Wiener Secession).

Ramsamperl is an interesting Secessionist work which was showcased in a national exhibition of Austrian book illustration in 1995 called "Ramsamperl and Klicketick, Austrian Picture Books from 1900 to today". The institution boasts Anton Kolig and Oskar Kokoschka among its most famous pupils. The pictures show the characters from a very close perspective, which is striking and unsettling.Īnton von Kenner was an Austrian artist who studied at the Viennese College of Arts and Crafts and taught there between 18, and again between 19. Heller classifies as "Bose Buben", or literature in the Struwwelpeter tradition Rather grotesque images illustrate the rhyming story about the evil figure of Ramsamperl, who is the son of the devil Pelzmertel, and also Evchen, a disobedient girl who metamorphoses into a pure girl through a long process of transformation.

Proof copy".Ī renowned picture book which C.F. Further this book is dedicated in the name of the authors. Art in Vienna 1898-1918 For more on the Viennese Secession get Art In Vienna for more on the movement’s place within the greater sweep of art history, get Art In Time. Painting, sculpture, and architecture are confronted by the author of this book, to highlight the diversity and the richness of a movement whose motto, For.

#VIENNA SECESSION ART GALLERY BOOK CRACKED#

, 3-32 every page designed and illustrated in 3 colours by letterpress and photolithography by Anton Josef von Kenner a very nice copy of a rare book sometime carefully recased retaining the original cloth spine, with a small, and skilful, restoration to top fore-corner of lower cover, and some wear to the others, inner hinges cracked with some adjacent abrasion to pastedowns, internally generally clean and very sound with some marginal thumbing, a few light marks and spots, and a couple of very short closed tears to lower edge.įirst edition, an ink inscription, apparently by Anton von Kenner, in German, to the title-page translates as "To the children of the esteemed J.N. Small folio red cloth-backed grey pictorial boards, illustrated to both cover pp.