It was built as an exhibition space, so the interior is very flexible.
Accessed 24 November 2015.Īs Ludwig Münz and Gustave Künstler assert, ‘In the battle for the new art, handicrafts and architecture came to the fore.’ This idea is epitomised by the Secession Exhibition Building, Joseph Maria Olbrich (1897-8). Secession Exhibition Building, Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1897-8, Vienna, Austria. The ideas of the group were disseminated through their magazine ‘Ver Sacrum’ (1898 -1903), celebrating youth and promoting a rebirth in Viennese visual culture. Described as the German branch of Art Nouveau, they were also developing the Jugendstil decorative style with curvilinear, organic ornamental designs. Influenced by Arts and Crafts, particularly the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, the Secessionists rejected historicism and embraced geometry and abstraction in architecture.
Contemporary Vienna was reacting to the Beaux-Arts classicism used in the construction of the municipal buildings on the Ringstrasse in the period 1871-1891, believed by many architects to fail to represent Vienna as a growing modern metropolis. The Vienna Secession was founded in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffman. The group were influential for their development of a new national style rejecting historicism. While anti-academic and anti-historicist, plurality was encouraged there was no specific artistic or architectural style. It was not solely an architectural movement but included visual artists. The Vienna Secession was part of a wider Secession movement with branches in Munich and Berlin.
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