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Outstanding artifacts from the Wiener Werkstätte can be found in the Leopold Museum’s world-famous collection of fine art from Vienna around 1900. The idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk and the special atmosphere of Vienna at that time, a world cultural capital, can thus be experienced in all its facets.
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Die kaiserliche Residenzstadt stand um das Jahr 1900 in voller Blüte: Zentrum eines Weltreichs mit gut 50 Millionen Einwohnern samt Höchstleistungen in Architektur, Musik, Malerei & Literatur. Neben all dem Prunk gab es aber auch Not & Elend – und erste Anzeichen einer nahenden Katastrophe.
Around 1900, Vienna became a centre of the Jugendstil (Art Nouveau), most of all with Otto Wagner and the association of artists known as Vienna Secession (after which the characteristic building on Karlsplatz is named).
The Vienna Secession (German: Wiener Secession; also known as the Union of Austrian Artists or Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) 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 ...
May 23, 2011 · Artists and thinkers of Vienna in 1900 asserted their own ideas and their own individuality through a new style in the arts and seeing the world—both without and within the human mind.
Dec 16, 2023 · Vienna 1900. (Exhibition view © Leopold Museum, Wien; photo: Lisa Rastl) As the very first room in the Leopold Museum’s permanent collection reminds us, Vienna around 1900 was a city of contrasts where conservative nobles rubbed shoulders with progressive intellectuals. A city of palaces and slums.
Nov 5, 2016 · The stark contrasts and conflicts of life in Vienna 1900 gave impetus to modernist innovations. The city enjoyed a rich cultural heritage, and its two million residents came from all over the multinational Habsburg Empire.
