Fifth Art Exhibition of the Union of Austrian Artists, Secession (Translation)
V. Kunstausstellung der Vereinigung Bildener Künstler Osterreichs Secession (Primary Title)
Koloman Moser, Austrian, 1868 - 1918 (Artist)
Printed by, Albert Berger, Austrian, active 1894 - 1937 (Printer)
Austria’s Art Nouveau movement, known as the Secession, was formed in 1897 by a group of seventeen young artists who sought to create a new style of modern art in Vienna. On September 15, 1899, the Secession’s fifth exhibition opened to the public, displaying a wide array of drawings and lithographs by well-known artists such as Eugène Grasset, Jules Cheret, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as local Viennese designers. One of the founding Secession members, Koloman Moser, designed this poster advertising the exhibition, which depicts an anthropomorphic youth with butterfly wings and long, swirling locks of hair.
Inscribed above in the plate: "SECESSION";
Inscribed lower left in the plate: "V. KUNSTAUS-/ STELLUNG DER / VEREINIGUNG / BILDENDER / KUNSTLER / ÖSTERREICHS";
signed and inscribed lower right in the plate: KOLO / MOSER / ENTRITT / 50 KR / WIENZEILE-2";
Inscribed in the lower center of the plate: "VER SACRUM II-JAHR";
Inscribed lower right in the plate: "LITH and DRUCK v. ALBERT, WIEN 8"
Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment and John and Maria Shugars Fund
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