![]() Read more about the Prague Architecture Tour. This is mainly for people who want to understand why the central part of Prague looks the way it does. I spent so long reading, learning and presenting architectural details of the city that I decided to offer a specialised tour. The building of the same name was completed in 1898. ![]() Not immediately ornamental but let your eyes roam over them for 30 seconds or so and the decoration slowly appears. Secession Building Joseph Maria Olbrich 1897 Visitor Information Friedrichstrae 12, Vienna 1010, Austria In 1896, Gustav Klimt and a number of other artists quit the conservative Kunstlerhaus and founded a new art association called the Secession. ![]() At the church end it’s clearly Gothic but as you pass “Mala Stupartska” the left side of the street has three blocks which have the Prague Secession look using coloured ceramic tiles and coloured glass to a different extent. The other is Stupartska (the road behind the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn). This very distinctive building, nicknamed the Golden Cabbage, is tied in with the group of progressive artists known as the Vienna Secession. Look for the ceramics and coloured glass. As you would learn from the tour, this street is bordered on both sides by what is considered to be a late version Jungendstil as many of the buildings are No Art Nouveau even though it’s in the same period. I walk down streets as part of my Old Town and Jewish Quarter walking tour where you’ll see an abundance of Secessionist style. Where to See Prague Secessionist Architecture The Secession Building is designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, a young Austrian architect between 18 as a place for exhibits of modern art. Prague Secession was fairly limited compared with Vienna but still there’s a clear attempt at creating clean and stylish buildings but dropping the curly Baroque decor and grandeur. Take a close look and you’ll see themes from this period repeating again and again through Art Nouveau, Cubism and Modernism. The Union of Austrian ArtistsSecession wanted to create a platform for contemporary and international art through its departure from the conservative Künstlerhaus cooperative. Der Kunst ihre Freiheit ( To every age its art, to every art its freedom) inscribed above the entrance to the pavilion. Designed to be an architectural manifesto for the movement, it has the motto Der Zeit ihre Kunst. There was colour and style but not religious and you won’t find the organic decoration that comes later with Art Nouveau. The founding of the Vienna Secession in 1897 was considered the birth of Austrian modernism in the visual arts. In 1898, one of the founders of Secession, Joseph Maria Olbrich, completed the Secession Building on Vienna’s Fredrichstrasse. These “young guns” were determined to pursue a new course, one that explored different styles of art and design. In Vienna tradition and modernity exist side-by-side. It was also called “Jungendstil” (the style of the young). Secession was basically a separation or the ending of a period. Stylish, Clean Lines, Use of Glass and Ceramic Tiles
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