Secession, 1897-1898 Joseph Maria Olbrich
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Ascot Tie With Tuxedo
Taste of Vienna of 1900 is dominated by the taste of the academy, of the established order, the bourgeoisie ... Several figures collide with the company, in a way that at the time came to offend, Otto Wagner was the central figure of change.
Otto Wagner's disciples founded the Vienna Secession. Secession means
court, and this movement with the cutting is with the academies, the aim is to translate this new understanding of human beings. It deliberately avoids the classical canon and stylistic devices are removed from the Minoan and Mycenaean.
"I think it will mount an absolute scandal, stupid people will go crazy."
Olbrich was fully aware provocation that would raise the flag he designed for the exhibition of the Vienna Secession, an artists' society founded in 1897, which inevitably represent late Historicism.
Built in a facility provided by the city and industrial financial support from Karl Wittgenstein, the building is now one of the best known examples of European architecture in the transition from historicism to modernism.
The white cube is formed through different volumes and houses an exhibition hall.
The exterior is notable for its organic ornamentation on the entrance there is an inscription: "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit" (each time its art and every art its freedom; Ludwig Hevesi).
The interior is quite the opposite, because the building is sealed, it is nice, also has a lot of flexibility because movable partitions exist.
The dome set, made of metal flowers, like a swarm of wasps that trembles in the air, because of this domed building is known affectionately by the Viennese as "the golden cabbage head."
In 1902, during a presentation of Beethoven, Gustav Klimt exposed his Beethoven Frieze in the building.
During the remodeling the basement was completely renovated, creating an ideal place for the frieze, which eventually became the building after an eventful history.
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