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Poster Design for Ver Sacrum. First Major Art Exhibition of the Secession, 1897

Leopold Museum,
Vienna
Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, metal paints on tracing paper
79.8×61 cm

Artists

  • Koloman Moser

    (Vienna 1868–1918 Vienna)

Unfortunately not on display at the moment
Koloman Moser (1868–1918) was highly successful as a graphic artist. Along with his graphic works regularly featured in the Secession’s magazine Ver Sacrum, Moser designed numerous exhibition posters. Among them is the poster advertising the first Secession exhibition of 1897, which wasn’t used until the fifth presentation. While Moser increasingly employed a geometrical design vocabulary from 1900, for instance in the work Frommes Kalender, the artist still adhered to an entirely floral-linear style in his early posters. These were still dominated by long curved lines and abstracted natural forms into which he embedded letters and figures.

MTh, 2021

Object data

Artist/author
  • Koloman Moser
Title
Poster Design for Ver Sacrum. First Major Art Exhibition of the Secession
Alternative title
Poster Design for the “FIRST MAJOR ART EXHIBITION” of the Secession
Date
1897
Art movement
Secession
Category
Graphic work
Material​/technique
Watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, metal paints on tracing paper
Dimensions
79.8×61 cm
Credit line
Leopold Museum, Vienna, Inv. 1750
Inventory access
Contributed to the Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung in 1994
Selection of Reference works
  • Koloman Moser- Die Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Elisabeth Leopold/Stefan Kutzenberger, Wien 2018 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 18.01.2018-10.06.2018).
  • Wien 1900. Sammlung Leopold, hrsg. von Diethard Leopold/Peter Weinhäupl, Wien u.a. 2009.
  • Koloman Moser 1868-1818, hrsg. von Rudolf Leopold/Gerd Pichler, Wien 2007 (Ausst.-Kat. Leopold Museum, Wien, 25.05.2007-10.09.2007).
Keywords
Ver Sacrumwoman/girlnudedesign/arts and craftSecessionartists' association/eventsornament: foliage/tendrils/branchessitting figure (fem.)postercollecting/exhibiting products of the fine arts

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Provenance

Provenance research
Leopold Museum i
Dr. Rudolf Leopold, Wien (o.D.);
Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung, Wien (1994)

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Ver Sacrumwoman/girlnudedesign/arts and craftSecessionartists' association/eventsornament: foliage/tendrils/branchessitting figure (fem.)postercollecting/exhibiting products of the fine arts