Max Kurzweil Czech, 1867-1916
Poster for the 17th Vienna Secession Exhibition, 1903
Unframed: 71.25h x 23.25w inches
Framed: 77.5h x 28.25w inches
Framed: 77.5h x 28.25w inches
Lithograph mounted on Japon
Printer: Albert Berger, Vienna
Printer: Albert Berger, Vienna
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This monumental poster for the 17th Vienna Secession Exhibition is exceptionally rare and widely regarded as a masterpiece of Secessionist graphic design. Elegant and uncompromisingly modern, it exemplifies the Secession’s...
This monumental poster for the 17th Vienna Secession Exhibition is exceptionally rare and widely regarded as a masterpiece of Secessionist graphic design. Elegant and uncompromisingly modern, it exemplifies the Secession’s concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total art,” asserting a unified visual language that dissolves boundaries between artistic disciplines while elevating aesthetic harmony over convention.
Literature
Sécession. L’Art Graphique à Vienne autour de 1900, Musée-Galerie de la Seita, Paris 1999, vgl. Kat.-Nr. 17.
Exhibitions
Neue Gallery, Museum for German and Austrian Art 2017.
Provenance
Collection of Serge Sabarsky, New York; Private collection, Ilinois.