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

by Vergo, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780714829678
• ISBN10: 0714829676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

The artistic stagnation of Vienna at the end of the nineteenth century wasudely shaken by the artists of the Secession. Their works at first shocked aonservative public; but their successive exhibitions, their magazine "Veracrum", and their application to the applied arts and architecture soonrought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage.;This bookraces the course of this development, of the Wiener Werkstatte that followed,nd the individual works of the artists concerned. Klimt, Olbrich, Loos andoffmann in architecture and applied arts. In other fields Mahler, Freud andchnitzler were influencing the avant-garde.;Peter Vergo quotes extensivelyrom the writings of contemporary reviewers, critics and the artistshemselves. He has eye-witness accounts of the exhibitions, the opening ofhe Secession building, the work in progress on the Palais Stoclet andabarett Fledermaus. The result is a documentary study of the successes andailures, hopes and fears of the members of an artistic movement which istill admired today.

Author Biography

Peter Vergo is currently teaching at the University of Essex.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Vienna 1900	p. 9
Secession
The Beginnings	p. 18
The First Exhibition	p. 26
The Dedication of the House: Second Exhibition	p. 33
Ver Sacrum	p. 40
III-VI Exhibitions	p. 44
The 'Klimt Affair' - The University Paintings	p. 49
Exhibitions, 1900-1902	p. 62
Beethoven 1902	p. 67
XVI-XVIII Exhibitions, 1903	p. 78
The Split within the Secession	p. 84
Architecture and the Applied Arts	p. 87
The Ringstrasse and the Architecture of Historicism	p. 88
Otto Wagner, 1841-1918	p. 90
Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1867-1908	p. 118
Josef Hoffmann, 1870-1956	p. 127
The Wiener Werkstatte	p. 132
Palais Stoclet - The Stoclet-frieze	p. 143
Kabarett Fledermaus	p. 148
Alfred Roller, 1864-1935	p. 156
Hoffmann's later work	p. 159
Adolf Loos, 1870-1933	p. 161
Kunstschau 1908-9: The Early Work of Kokoschka and Schiele
Kunstschau 1908	p. 179
Oskar Kokoschka, born 1886	p. 189
Richard Gerstl, 1883-1908	p. 200
Kunstschau 1909 - Vienna before the War	p. 202
Egon Schiele, 1890-1918	p. 208
Epilogue: Vienna 1914-18: The Later Work of Klimt and Schiele	p. 219
Notes	p. 242
Bibliography	p. 250
Acknowledgements	p. 252
Index	p. 253
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