200006 6 Vienna jugenstil klimt art museum Contemporary Art 1 office@secession.at false 200447 48.20044 16.365841 Secession Tue-Sun, 10:00-18:00; Thu, 10:00-20:00 +4315875307 [U1][U2][U4] at Karlsplatz 2008-11-10T17:29:52+01:00 false Friedrichstrasse 12 2008-11-10T17:29:52+01:00 http://www.secession.at 1010 In 1897, a group of artists headed by Gustav Klimt banded together to form the Secession, an artists’ collective that rebelled against the conservatism of academic art and introduced to Vienna its own brand of Modernism—the Jugendstil. In the following year, the pioneering young architect Joseph Maria Olbrich designed the Secession’s famous exhibition space: a stark white box topped with a huge gilded dome of laurel leaves that was soon heralded as a secular "temple" of Modernism. True to its origins, this mecca of the fin de siècle remains a contemporary artists’ collective, and mounts nearly twenty independently curated shows a year. On permanent display in the downstairs gallery is Gustav Klimt’s monumental “Beethovenfrieze,” which was executed on site in 1902. /system/photos/0020/4572/Secession_Vienna_June_2006_017_thumb.jpg 2008-11-10T17:29:52+01:00 Vienna Art 204572 /system/photos/0020/4572/Secession_Vienna_June_2006_017.jpg 204548 /system/photos/0020/4548/sec4.jpg 204568 /system/photos/0020/4568/Secession_Vienna_June_2006_007.jpg 204556 /system/photos/0020/4556/sec.jpg 204560 /system/photos/0020/4560/sec3.jpg 204552 /system/photos/0020/4552/sec1.jpg