Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: \u201cTo every age its art \u2014 to every art its freedom;\u201d and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century.<\/p>\n
Across economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a \u201claboratory of modernity,\u201d one which nurtured some of the greatest artistic innovators\u2014from Egon Schiele\u2019s unflinching nude portraits to Gustav Klimt\u2019s decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I<\/em>, from the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha Moser\u2019s calendars adorned in golden deities.<\/p>\n Discover the zeitgeist, the scandals, and the extraordinary protagonists in this introduction to a transformative epoch. Across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, we explore all the movers and shakers through insightful profiles and crisp double-page reproductions. Marking the centenary of the deaths of some of its brightest talents, this collection joins Vienna in its 2018 celebration of Modernism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: \u201cTo every age its art \u2014 to every art its freedom;\u201d and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[4516,4522,4523],"product_tag":[1156,6124,9083,2767,6937,12804,4524,2253,10639,290,6463,524,981,10640],"class_list":{"0":"post-25577","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-en","7":"product_cat-art-en","8":"product_cat-design-en-en","9":"product_tag-appliedarts-en","10":"product_tag-architecture-en","11":"product_tag-art-en","12":"product_tag-art-history","13":"product_tag-art-nouveau","14":"product_tag-austria-en","15":"product_tag-design-en-en","16":"product_tag-graphics","17":"product_tag-handicrafts-en","18":"product_tag-interiors-en","19":"product_tag-old-arts","20":"product_tag-painting-en","21":"product_tag-sculpture-en","22":"product_tag-vienna-secession-en","23":"pa_author_att-rainer-metzger-en","24":"pa_cover-hardcover","25":"pa_format-21-x-26-cm-en","26":"pa_isbn-9783836567053-en","27":"pa_language-eng","28":"pa_pages-96-en","29":"pa_published-2018-04-25-en","30":"pa_publisher-taschen-en-en","32":"first","33":"outofstock","34":"sold-individually","35":"shipping-taxable","36":"purchasable","37":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n