Formed in 1897, its radical period was brief yet its impact on the cultural life of Vienna and beyond was immense and enduring. Behrens, along with Joseph Hoffmann, attended the 1914 exhibition. The Vienna Secession was the name given to the group of artists, architects and designers that broke away from the main establishment of Viennese artists to form their own group. He was backed up by the example of Peter Behrens, who created the template for a new concept of industrial architecture and related design, characterized by a lean and generally abstract-geometrical interpretation of Jugendstil. Walter Gropius's architecture around this time was defined as proto-rationalist, and his approach matured with the foundation of the Bauhaus school in 1919, where he initially stressed a rather expressionist approach, and after a few years shifted to his typical rationalist focus. The building’s stern white cubes boast gold-plated laurel leafs, owls and twirling lines, topped with a giant globe of golden laurel. It blends early Modernism and late Art Nouveau architecture like no other. Taut would later become better known for his utopian work - dubbed expressionist - after the end of the Great War in 1918, and eventually turned to a rather personal version of the rationalist school. The Secession is the most successful provocation by Viennese architects and artists. By 1902, the Brussels-trained Henry Clément van de Velde was in Germany, where he directed the Weimar School of Applied Art, and was already a wellestablished Art Nouveau architect and designer. Below you may find the answer for: Vienna Secession artist crossword clue.This clue was last seen on Wall Street Journal Crossword SeptemAnswers In case the clue doesn’t fit or there’s something wrong please let us know and we will get back to you. These are van de Velde's Werkbund Theatre, Bruno Taut's Glass Pavilion, and Gropius's Model Factory.
The Deutscher Werkbund organized a major exhibition in Cologne in 1914, where three buildings display the three features that characterized the full maturity of the Jugendstil movement in Germany, whose features can be traced back to Art Nouveau in Brussels and Paris, and to the Vienna Secession.