So the next time you’re looking to add an element of European Art Nouveau to your space, consider the designs of the Weiner Werkstätte and Vienna Secession. Klimts primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank. This gallery features the work and biographies of leading German and Austrian artists working in the Secession, Jugendstil, and Art Nouveau style. Hoffmann’s globe lighting design is so elemental that it has inspired countless iterations and is still being reproduced today. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objet dart. You might snag a 1900 Josef Hoffmann Bentwood settee for $5,816 on 1 st Dibs. Nowadays, Vienna Secession and Weiner Werkstätte pieces command prices in the thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. “There was a period when people threw away this kind of furniture, saying ‘we prefer new stuff,’ and then maybe 20 years later, they said, ‘oh my god, why did we throw away this furniture? How stupid we were!’ Because then it was rediscovered in the ‘80s.” The Vienna Secession's work is often referred to (during the years before World War I) as the Austrian version of Jugendstil, the German term for Art Nouveau, and it is the work of its members in association with that style that has contributed most to its fame, particularly outside of Austria. At the turn of the 20th century, Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and several of their peers separated from the predominant Association of Austrian Artists to.
Much of the work of the artists of the Vienna Secession and Weiner Werkstätte is now housed in museums like the Leopold Museum, the Belvedere Museum (home to the world’s largest collection of works by Klimt), and the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Neue Galerie in New York City, but according to Pokorny, the style is seeing a resurgence in the art market as well. These artists and architects rejected academic traditions and sought new modes of expression. To art its freedom.' It was 1897, and art in Vienna was stuffy. Members of the Vienna Secession foundation Getty Images
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