No-one can afford to ignore what happened in Vienna in 1900. Much of contempary Western culture has its roots in this Central European capital, an unclassifiable city in which the works of Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, Fritz Lang and many other thinkers and creative artists took shape.
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No-one can afford to ignore what happened in Vienna in 1900. Much of contempary Western culture has its roots in this Central European capital, an unclassifiable city in which the works of Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Wittgenstein, Fritz Lang and many other thinkers and creative artists took shape.
In fin-de-siècle Vienna, in reaction to the conservatism of the ruling class and the weight of the past symbolised by the Emperor, the hunger for independence and modernity engendered a new artistic approach which still influences the way we look at the world today.
The artistic movement called the Viennese Secession, founded around 1900 by Klimt, Schiele, Moser and Kokoschka, four Viennese painters, sums up this richly inventive period and conjures up the spirit of modernity thas was abroad in turn-of-the-century Vienna
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