![]() The Viennese call it ‘Krauthappel’ (cabbage head). The building’s stern white cubes boast gold-plated laurel leafs, owls and twirling lines, topped with a giant globe of golden laurel. They felt it was their duty to oppose the official domination and conservative outlook of the Vienna Academy of the Arts, the Vienna Knstlerhaus. It blends early Modernism and late Art Nouveau architecture like no other. It was purely an artistic movement that took place in 1897 when a group of Austrian painters, sculptors, and architects resigned (i.e., seceded) from the Association of Austrian Artists. So the next time you’re looking to add an element of European Art Nouveau to your space, consider the designs of the Weiner Werkstätte and Vienna Secession. The Secession is the most successful provocation by Viennese architects and artists. Hoffmann’s globe lighting design is so elemental that it has inspired countless iterations and is still being reproduced today. You might snag a 1900 Josef Hoffmann Bentwood settee for $5,816 on 1 st Dibs. Nowadays, Vienna Secession and Weiner Werkstätte pieces command prices in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. ![]() “There was a period when people threw away this kind of furniture, saying ‘we prefer new stuff,’ and then maybe 20 years later, they said, ‘oh my god, why did we throw away this furniture? How stupid we were!’ Because then it was rediscovered in the ‘80s.” Much of the work of the artists of the Vienna Secession and Weiner Werkstätte is now housed in museums like the Leopold Museum, the Belvedere Museum (home to the world’s largest collection of works by Klimt), and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Neue Galerie in New York City, but according to Pokorny, the style is seeing a resurgence in the art market as well. Members of the Vienna Secession foundation Getty Images (Domkuppel der Wiener Sezession (Sezessionsstil oder Wiener Secession) (Foto)) Joseph Maria Olbrich Size & Border Picture Frame Medium & Stretcher Glass &. Gustav Klimt Exhibition Poster - Museum Quality Print - Sunflower Painting - Vintage Wall Art Decor - Art Nouveau Poster - Vienna Secession.
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