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b e a u t y
and
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abyss
v i e n n a
c e l e b r a t i n g
M O D ERNI S M
budapest
april 22 to 30, 2018
a travel program celebrating viennese modernism
and four of its most important protagonists
a travel program exclusively designed for the
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ienna and Budapest are among the half-dozen cities where the largest quantity
of Art Nouveau art and design can be found. And, more than in most places,
in each, there was originality and a fecund variety of forms. Particularly striking
is the sharp difference between the Austrian and the Hungarian variants. In
Vienna, ‘Secessionism’ developed in opposition to artistic orthodoxy and social
conservatism; in Budapest, ‘Eclecticism’ was all this but additionally a manifestation of
Magyr resentment of the cultural and political dominance of their Austrian overlords.
Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century was a city in ferment – a bastion of the
established order, a hotbed of radical politics, a crucible of intellectual and artistic
revolution in art, architecture, design, music and thought. Lift not the painted veil: behind
it lay widespread discontent, a crumbling moral order and myriad cracks in the coherence
of empire. With remarkable suddenness, there emerged from this complacent, decadent
and artistically stagnant society a brilliant array of artists and intellectuals who were
determined to break with the past and were prepared to risk affronting the establishment
in doing so.
This was the city of Mahler, Schönberg, Schnitzler and Freud, and also of the protagonists
of this tour, Klimt, Schiele and Otto Wagner and their friends, collaborators and rivals.
The Great War brought Austrian suzerainty of Central Europe crashing to an end,
causing death, destruction and trauma along the way. And then the ’flu pandemic of
1918 killed even more, including Schiele, Klimt and Moser.
In 1918 four of the leading exponents of Modernism died: the artists Gustav Klimt, Egon
Schiele and Koloman Moser, and the architect and town planner Otto Wagner.
One hundred years later, in 2018, Vienna celebrates this extraordinary cultural period with
a series of special exhibitions and events devoted to these pioneers of Modernism and
we would like to invite you to join us there!
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klimt
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egon
schiele
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koloman
moser
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otto
wagner