Sezession

Sezession, name for several groups of progressive artists that broke away from established and conservative artists’ organizations in Austria and Germany. The first Sezession group was formed in Munich in 1892. It was followed by the Berlin Sezession movement, formed by Max Liebermann in 1892, which included such artists as Lovis Corinth. The most famous of the groups, formed in Vienna in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, favoured a highly ornamental Art Nouveau style over the...