Art in Vienna 1898-1918 Klimt Kokoschka Schiele and Their Contemporaries

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.Vergo, Peter is the author of 'Art in Vienna 1898-1918 Klimt Kokoschka Schiele and Their Contemporaries', published 1994 under ISBN 9780714829678 and ISBN 0714829676.