Vienna Viennese Secession 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.
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Vienna Viennese Secession was founded on 3 April 1897 by artist Gustav Klimt, designer Koloman Moser, architects Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich, Max Kurzweil, Wilhelm Bernatzik and others.
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At the beginning, the Viennese Secession had fifty members, and at its first elected the painter Gustav Klimt as its president.
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Viennese Secession continued to function after the departure of Klimt, Hoffmann, Wagner and their supporters, giving regular exhibitions in the Viennese Secession building, but they lacked the originality and excitement of the earlier period.
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Under the regime of the Nazi Party the Viennese Secession building was destroyed as a symbol of degenerate art, but was faithfully reconstructed following World War II.
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Viennese Secession was elected President of the Secession from 1948 to 1950.
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The Viennese Secession continues to function today, holding regular exhibitions in the Viennese Secession Hall.
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Viennese Secession's best-known building, the Palais Stoclet in Brussels, had a tower of stacked cubic forms, minimum ornament on the facade, and an interior of right angles and geometric designs.
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Viennese Secession designed the windows for the Austrian Postal Savings Bank, one of the landmarks of the Vienna Secession style, and for the St Charles Borromeo Cemetery Church, the most notable of Vienna Secession churches.
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Vienna Viennese Secession influenced the Polish movement Mloda Polska, that was inclusive of other than Art Nouveau artistic styles and encompassed a broader approach to art, literature, and lifestyle.
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Viennese Secession movement was selected as the theme for an Austrian commemorative coin: the 100 euro Viennese Secession commemorative coin minted on 10 November 2004.
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