Secession Building, Vienna: All year

The Secession Palace of Vienna is the symbol of the artistic movement of the Wiener Secession between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, in which 19 artists distanced themselves from the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna to create an independent group.

This association consisted of painters such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka, but also famous architects like Otto Wagner and his student Joseph Maria Olbrich.  The Secession Palace soon became the official seat of organized exhibitions for the common Viennese.

Olbrich based his design on Gustav Klimt, who had imagined a majestic building of clean and precise lines.

The cubical structure is crowned by an enormous dome comprised of a thousand laurel oak leaves, forged branches and coated by a thin layer of gold. The white walls and pillars glorify even more the precious golden decorations, including the inscription that stands out above the main gate: "To every age its art, to every art its freedom".

Once inside, one can find the beautiful Beethoven Frieze, a painting by Gustav Klimt himself. The Secession still conserves its spirit of cultural study and continues in its artistic experimentation mission.  Don’t miss the innovative exhibitions and other temporary events that take place here!

Wiener Secessionsgebäude

Friedrichstrabe 12, 1010 Vienna