Secession Building
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{{Infobox building
| name = Secession Building
| native_name= {{lang|de|Secessionsgebäude}}
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| image = Secession 2016, Vienna.jpg
| caption = Main facade of the Secession Building
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| building_type = Art Exhibition pavilion
| architectural_style = Art Nouveau
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| location = Vienna, Austria
| coordinates = {{coord|48|12|1.86|N|16|21|56.43|E|type:landmark_region:AT|display=it}}
| mapframe-marker = building
| start_date = 1897
| completion_date = 1898
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| diameter = {{convert|40|x|30|m|abbr=on}}
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| floor_area = {{convert|1000|sqm|abbr=on}}
| main_contractor =
| architect = Joseph Maria Olbrich
| other_designers = Koloman Moser, Gustav Klimt
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| website = {{URL|http://www.secession.at}}
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The Secession Building ({{langx|de|link=no|Secessionsgebäude}}) is a contemporary art exhibition hall in Vienna, Austria. It was completed in 1898 by Joseph Maria Olbrich as an architectural manifesto for the Vienna Secession,{{cite web |title=Secession - building |url=https://secession.at/building |website=Secession: artist-run since 1897 |publisher=Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession |access-date=1 October 2023}} a group of rebel artists that seceded from the long-established fine art institution.
Description
The building features the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt,{{cite web |title=Secession - Beethoven frieze |url=https://secession.at/beethovenfrieze |website=Secession: artist-run since 1897 |publisher=Association of Visual Artists Vienna Secession |access-date=1 October 2023}} one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style (a branch of Art Nouveau, also known as Jugendstil in Germany and Nordic countries). The building was financed by Karl Wittgenstein,Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius: p.8 the father of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The motto of the Secessionist movement is written above the entrance of the pavilion: "To every age its art, to every art its freedom" ({{langx|de|link=no|Der Zeit ihre Kunst. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit}}). Below this is a sculpture of three gorgons representing painting, sculpture, and architecture.
The building has been selected to figure on the national side of the €0.50 Austrian coin. It also appears as the main motif of one of the Austrian gold collectors' coins: the 100 euro Secession commemorative coin, minted in November 2004, on the obverse side. The reverse depicts a detail from the Beethoven Frieze, which is housed in the building.
The Secession building is currently an artist-run kunsthalle centred around international contemporary art.
Images
File:Wien - Secessionsgebäude.JPG|The Secession Building in 2017
File:Wiener Secessionsgebäude.jpg|Secession Building façade
File:Secession Detail Blattwerk.JPG|Foliage work detail
File:Jugendstil owls - Koloman Moser - Detail facade of Secession Building - Vienna.jpg|Jugendstil owls on the façade by Koloman Moser
File:Gustav Klimt - Beethovenfries, "Die Sehnsucht nach dem Glück" (nach Richard Wagners Interpretation der IX. Sinfonie von Ludwig van Beethoven) - 5987 - Österreichische Galerie Belvedere.jpg|The Beethoven Frieze, created by Gustav Klimt, is housed in the lower floor.
File:Viennasecessiongorgons.jpg|Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture
File:2004 Austria 100 Euro Secession front.jpg|The Secession commemorative coin
Influences
File:Art Palace in Kraków, Poland, September 2019, 01.jpg, in Krakow Old Town]]
Young Poland ({{langx|pl|Młoda Polska}}) was a modernist period in Polish visual arts, literature and music, covering roughly the years between 1890 and 1918 during Austria-Hungary. Many of the exhibitions were held at the Palace of Art, also known as "Secession", of the Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts, in Krakow Old Town.
References
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External links
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Category:Art Nouveau collections
Category:Art museums and galleries in Vienna
Category:Buildings and structures in Innere Stadt
Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1897
Category:1897 establishments in Austria
Category:Art Nouveau architecture in Vienna
Category:Art Nouveau museum buildings
Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1898
Category:19th-century architecture in Austria
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