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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2025-10-22 · 22:50 UTC

"Fulfillment (Lovers)," Gustav Klimt, 1910-11.

Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the guiding lights of the Vienna Secession movement, which gave birth to what we know today as Art Nouveau.

This work is actually a pattern for a mosaic. From 1905-11 he was involved in installing a mosaic frieze in the dining room of the Stoclet Palace in Brussels, Belgium. The central motif was the Tree of Life, which forms a backdrop for several figures, including the embracing couple we see here.

Klimt's works could often be frankly erotic; not smutty, to be sure, but openly depicting romantic and sexual passion in ways that some found almost pornographic at the time. Today, they're tame, but still evocative.

Mosaic work also fitted Klimt's style; quite a few of his paintings look like mosaics in two dimensions. While there are aspects of this that are frankly traditional, the overall execution, with flat areas of pattern with no attempt to make them seem three-dimensional, marks the beginning of the transition to modernism.

From the MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Arts), Vienna.

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2025-08-13 · 23:44 UTC

"Secession XIV, Beethoven," Alfred Roller, 1902.

Roller (1864-1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer, who was (very obviously) a founding member of the Vienna Secession, which gave us the Art Nouveau style.

Roller was very active early in his career as a graphic designer, as we have here in this lithograph, advertising the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition that celebrated Beethoven. This is classic Vienna Secession...the stylized figure, the embrace of two dimensions, the collage-like treatment of different parts of the image, as simple areas of pattern. It's genuinely lovely and makes me sentimental for advertising like this.

Roller would later go on to design sets for operas conducted by his friend, the composer Gustav Mahler. He ended up becoming the chief designer of the Vienna State Opera.

From the Leopold Museum, Vienna.

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Letterform Archive @[email protected] · 2025-03-03 · 16:30 UTC

Leopold Forstner, Poster (facsimile) for “Wiener Kunst im Hause” (Viennese Art in the House), 1903.

Get to know another nouveau through Jugendstil, the Vienna Secession, and Die Fläche: https://letterformarchive.org/news/die-flache-facsimile-and-the-vienna-secession/?utm_source=Mastodon

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Letterform Archive @[email protected] · 2025-03-02 · 16:24 UTC

Koloman Moser, Ver Sacrum, year 2, no. 4, 1899.

Get to know another nouveau through Jugendstil, the Vienna Secession, and Die Fläche: https://letterformarchive.org/news/die-flache-facsimile-and-the-vienna-secession/?utm_source=Mastodon

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Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2025-02-21 · 23:33 UTC

"Poppyheads," Koloman Moser, 1900.

Viennese artist Moser (1868-1918) was one of the guiding lights of Art Nouveau. He was one of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession, and was a co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte, a design workshop that had designers, artists, and artisans coming together to create functional works, in many ways forerunners of Art Deco and the Bauhaus.

Moser and his colleagues rejected the decadence of Viennese art from the previous century and embraced clean lines and imagery drawn from the natural world. Here, for instance, we have a textile design with stylized poppies.

He died young, from throat cancer, and one can only imagine what more he could have done. As it is, he truly revolutionized modern design.

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Letterform Archive @[email protected] · 2024-04-06 · 15:21 UTC

Quellstift-Arbeiten: Freizeit-Bücher für die Jugend, Band 9/10, designed by Albert Haeubi and published by Paul Haupt Bern, Switzerland, ca. 1927.

A similar method for teaching lettering was first developed by Rudolf von Larisch and used by many of the Vienna Secession artists. Read more in @typeoff’s essay in our Die Fläche book: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/die-flache/

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Letterform Archive @[email protected] · 2024-03-31 · 17:07 UTC