In spite of this, I encourage you to visit the museum which continues to exhibit contemporary artists, while serving as a historical visitor centre for the Vienna Secession movement. Lastly, we are not currently associated with the The Association of Visual Artists /Vienna Secession (Secession museum) which is still active in Vienna. Along with painters and sculptors, there were several prominent architects who became associated with The Vienna Secession. If you would like to contribute an image or event not currently listed on the site, please contact us. Vienna Secession History Characteristics May 1st, 2020 - The Vienna Secession was formed on by a group of nineteen artists and architects who decided to break away from the official Viennese Artists Association Painter Gustav Klimt 1 / 11. The Exhibitions and Events page has a list of current and upcoming and exhibitions around the world. It is constantly being updated with new work and artists related to the Vienna Secession and Art Nouveau movement. The gallery section features the work of prominent graphic artists from the period. This site seeks to document this rich period of graphic design through related articles and images. Some attention is also given to the counterpart Art Nouveau movement in France, Belgium, and Holland artists like Alphonse Mucha, Henry Van de Velde, and Fernand Khnopff whose influence played an important part in the development of German and Austrian graphic art. This website focuses on the historical contribution to graphic art and design by the Vienna Secession as well as Germany and Austria’s contribution to the style of Jugendstil graphic art. Founded on 3 April 1897, the Secession consisted of a group of artists who resigned from the Association. The main artists and designers involved with this movement were Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Joseph Olbrich, and Josef Hoffmann. The Wiener Werkstätte grew out of the Vienna Secession, the movement with which many of its chief designers were affiliated, and was part of the larger emergence of the importance of the decorative arts in Vienna at the turn of the century. The Vienna Secession ( Wiener Secession- Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs) was an art movement formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna Künstlerhaus.