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Wien Museum
8 Karlsplatz, Wien, Wien 1040

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In cooperation with the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin, the Wien Museum is showing an exhibition about the Secession movements in Munich, Vienna and Berlin at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The term Secession is associated with an important chapter in art history in the dawn of modernism, which in Vienna is directly associated with Gustav Klimt, in Munich with Franz von Stuck and in Berlin with Max Liebermann.

The establishment of secessions in many European countries in the late 19th century symbolized a break from the prevailing artistic institutions. Rejecting the traditional structures of public subsidies and systems of exhibitions whose juries imposed the criteria of traditional art academies, secessionist artists strived for freedom. Their objective was vibrancy and a diverse form of artistic expression with an international orientation — a precondition for the emergence of artistic modernism.