Vienna secession light
The Beethoven Frieze is now on permanent display in the Vienna Secession Building. To any traditional style, therefore it fulfilled successfully the idea of a new artistic start. the frieze was painted directly on the walls with light materials. This completely new shape disconcerted the people of Vienna because it could not be classified "egyptian tomb", the dome was called "cabbage head". It a "temple of tree frogs", a "cross between temple and stock", "tomb of the Mahdi", "crematorium", "mausoleum" or The people of Vienna mocked at the building calling "It should be walls, white and bright, sacred and pure", wrote Olbrich. The austere symmetry, the holy allusions, the large surfaces without interruption and the unusual decoration as much as the exposed situation in the city caused a Ver Sacrum was also the title of a magazine published by the Secession The Sacred Spring had to leave their people in order to found a new community elsewhere. Ver Sacrum, Sacred Spring, symbolizes the new start, the new art movement originally, it was an ancient classical ritual according to which the youth born in To the necessary changings and revised it on April 28, 1898, the laying of the foundation stone took place, and six months later only, on October 29, 1898, the Within ten months, Olbrich developed the plan, adjusted it according Sponsors, especially by Karl Wittgenstein, father of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Gartenbaugesellschaft (imperial and royal association of horticulture), in part given by Hall was earned in part at the I st exposition in the k. Temporary exposition pavilion for a period of ten years maximally (according to the minutes of the session of November 17, 1897).
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The hall was chosen to be on the Friedrichstraße, so finally the municipal council gave a territory to the disposal of the Secession in order to erect a At first, the building was supposed to beĮrected on the Ringstraße (perimeter road), but Olbrich's ideas provoked heavy protest of Vienna's municipal council.
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Maria Olbrich being only 30 years old but he nevertheless was commissioned with the execution of the project. There was a young architect working in the studio of When the Secession was founded, its members already agreed to build their own exposition hall.