In addition to gold, silver and precious stones less noble materials were used: Steel, copper, bronze, pearl, horn, enamel and glass. Instead, the artistic design of a piece and the originality of ornamentation became crucial. With the Art Nouveau movement the material of a piece was no longer the most important aspect of jewelry. The Vienna Workshops Style influenced later generations of designers of jewely, furniture and architecture. The artists Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Carl Otto Czeschka and Dagobert Peche designed jewelry under that label and created a style for its own. In terms of Viennese Art Nouveau jewelry, the world-famous Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop) should be mentioned first and foremost. If you want to discover Vienna’s Art Noveau Architecture just wander around the inner districts or take a guided walking tour. In the middle of the city – on the Graben – you can even go to the first underground public lavatories in the art nouveau style.
The vienna secession furniture windows#
The story goes that the Looshaus of architect Adolf Loos at Michaelerplatz right in front of the Vienna Hofburg made Emperor Franz Josef to have the curtains of the Hofburg’s facing windows permanently drawn close. Especially Otto Wagner’s rail stations and the bridges along the former “Stadtbahn” (urban railway), today part of the Vienna metro system (Lines U4, U6 and S45), are quite famous.Īlso the Majolikahaus and Musenhaus on the Linke Wienzeile (near Naschmarkt) and the Kirche am Steinhof in Vienna’s hilly western suburbs are masterpieces of Art Noveau architecture. Especially the architects Otto Wagner and Josef Hoffmann shaped the Austrian capital like few others. When it comes to architecture the Secession Building is not the only example for Viennese Art Noveau style.
You can see Klimt’s and other artists’ work in permanent Klimt exhibition the Belvedere palace, the exhibition in the Leopold Museum and the exhibitions in the Secession Building with its golden leafwork dome. As one of the founding members of the group Klimt’s works “The Kiss,” “Judith” and the “Beethoven Frieze” are known all over the world today. The best-known artist of the Vienna Secession movement is Gustav Klimt. Though the Austrian version of the Art Nouveau is known as “Wiener Jugendstil” or “Secessionsstil”, inspired by the artist group of the “Vienna Secession”. In the German-speaking world Art Noveau was called “Jugendstil”, named after the Munich-based weekly journal “Die Jugend” (The Youth), which propagated a new art for a new way of life.īesides Munich and Darmstadt in Germany, Vienna had become another center of the Art Noveau.
In the center of the new style were geometric and naturalistic forms. At the end of the 19th century, Art Nouveau created a new style that emancipated itself from historical styles.
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