Vienna 1900 and the Heroes of Modernism
General Editor Christian Brandstätter
With texts by Hans Bisanz
Marian Bisanz-Prakken
Monika Faber
Peter Gorsen
Daniela Gregori
Hanel Koeck
Richard Kurdiovsky
Rainer Metzger
Käthe Springer
Christian Brandstätter
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| ‘A formidable work of reference … excellent value and essential for those who admire the Vienna Secession’ | | – The Independent on Sunday |
| ‘Conveys vividly the spirit of a fertile milieu, peopled with intense thinkers’ | | – BBC History Magazine |
Fin-de-siècle Vienna was the central gathering point of the European avant-garde and an extraordinary laboratory for new ideas and concepts.
Here is a dazzlingly illustrated (with over 700 illustrations) portrait of this astonishing cultural ferment and its most important protagonists. The contributors discuss Klimt and the artists and architects – among them Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos – who joined him in the ‘Secession’, and reflect on the glories of the Wiener Werkstätte’s crafts, prints, graphic art and fine book production.
Themes range from the compositional logic of such musical pioneers as Hugh Wolf, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schönberg, Alan Berg and Anton Webern to the literary and journalistic life of the Café Griensteidl, the favourite haunt of such luminaries as Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Hermann Bahr, Peter Altenberg and Karl Kraus.
Further figures integral to the mix include Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism; the dramatist Arthur Schnitzler and his one-act diagnoses of the morbidly cyclical nature of washed-out emotion; Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler and Wilhelm Reich with their masterly insights into the human psyche; and Fritz Mauthner and Ludwig Wittgenstein, pioneers in the philosophy of language.
The book includes a compact but detailed appendix that offers information on the significant figures, institutions and publications of this remarkable period.
Christian Brandstätter is a Viennese author, curator and publisher. Among his previous books is Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte, also published by Thames & Hudson.
Also of interest:
Wonderful Wiener Werkstätte: Design in
Vienna 1903–1932
Gustav Klimt: Drawings & Watercolours
Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolours
Textiles of the Wiener Werkstätte
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500513139 | | ISBN-13 978-0500513132 | | | | 24.0 x 16.5 cm | | Hardback | | 400pp | | With 742 illustrations in colour and black and white | | First published 2006 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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