In this way they were very much in keeping with the iconoclastic spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna (the time and place that also saw the publication of Freud's first writings). They hoped to create a new style that owed nothing to historical influence. Secession artists were concerned, above all else, with exploring the possibilities of art outside the confines of academic tradition. Above its entrance was carved the phrase "to every age its art and to art its freedom". The Secession building could be considered the icon of the movement. Unlike other movements, there is no one style that unites the work of all artists who were part of the Vienna Secession. The Beethovenfries, created by Gustav Klimt, is housed in the lower floor. On 14 June 1905 Gustav Klimt and other artists left the Vienna Secession due to differences of opinion over artistic concepts. In 1903 Hoffmann and Moser founded the Wiener Werkstätte as a fine-arts society with the goal of reforming the applied arts (arts and crafts).
A statue of Beethoven by Max Klinger stood at the center, with Klimt's Beethoven frieze mounted around it. The 14th Secession exhibition, designed by Josef Hoffmann and dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven, was especially famous. The group earned considerable credit for its exhibition policy, which made the French Impressionists somewhat familiar to the Viennese public. Designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, the exhibition building soon became known simply as "the Secession" ( die Sezession). The Berlin and Munich Secession movements preceded the Vienna Secession, which held its first exhibition in 1898.Īlso in 1898, the group's exhibition house was built in the vicinity of Karlsplatz. The Secession artists objected to the prevailing conservatism of the Vienna Künstlerhaus with its traditional orientation toward Historicism. The Vienna Secession was founded on 3 April 1897 by artists Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann, Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, Otto Wagner, and others. Another view of the secession building that allows better examination of the dome
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