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Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their contemporaries

By (author) Peter Vergo

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The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the Vienna Secession. Their work shocked a conservative public, but their successive exhibitions, their magazine Ver Sacrum, and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage. Art in Vienna, 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele and their Contemporaries, now published in its 4th edition, brilliantly traces the course of this development. Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele were the leading figures in the fine arts; Wagner, Olbrich, Loos and Hoffmann in architecture and the applied arts. In other fields, Mahler, Freud and Schnitzler were influencing the avant-garde. The book includes eye-witness accounts of exhibitions, the opening of the Secession building and other events, and the result is a fascinating documentary study of the members of an artistic movement which is much admired today. Some 150 color images and 75 black and white archival illustrations make this a sumptuous and historically engrossing study of a period when Vienna was the centre of the European art world.

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Publisher | Phaidon Press Ltd
Published date | 13 Mar 2015
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 290 x 250 x 29mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 2116g
ISBN | 978-0-7148-6878-3
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BISAC | art / history / modern (late 19th century to 1945)


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