While many artists and architects in the early 20th century were drawn to the notion of the total aesthetic environment, perhaps no movement embodied it more than the WW.
Dr. Laura Morowitz
By the early 1930s, Broncia Koller’s career was lost to art history, despite her extraordinary artistic talent and insight.
Broncia Koller, Sitting (Seated Nude Marietta)
The gleaming white walls, lack of windows, gilded inscriptions and strange floating sphere of golden leaves looks like a temple built by some secretive, mythic people.
Josef Maria Olbrich, The Secession Building
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