Secession (art)

*refers to a number of modernist artist groups that separated from the support of official academic art and its administrations in the late 19th and early 20th century.

Stabrowski Peacock

 

The first secession from the official politics occurred in France, when, in 1890, the "Salon au Champs-de-Mars" was established, headed by Meissonnier and Puvis de Chavannes. In the years following artists in various European countries took up this impulse, primarily in Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Belgium, which 'seceded' from traditional art movements and embraced progressive styles. The first secession outside France formed in Munich in 1892, soon followed by the Berlin Secession in the same year.

 

 

Bob Coonts

Portrait of Adele Blochbauer (I),

 Gustav Klimt, 1907.