Epochs · Vienna
Vienna Secession
c. 1897 – 1918
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In 1897 Gustav Klimt and fellow artists broke from Vienna's conservative academy, declaring "To every age its art, to art its freedom." Their work fused fine and decorative art, drawing on Byzantine mosaics, Japanese prints and Art Nouveau line, and treated eroticism and the psyche with new openness.
Hallmarks
- Gold leaf and flat ornament
- Unity of fine and decorative art
- Sinuous Art Nouveau line
- Frank treatment of desire
Artists here
- Gustav Klimt · 1862 – 1918
