The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-Of-The-Century Munich

N.J.: Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1990. xix, 205 pages: illustrations; 26 cm Very fine in liek jacket. As new. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780691039824, 9780691002873

Founded in 1892, the Munich Secession quickly became the German-speaking world’s first and most influential breakaway art movement, anchoring a city already central to European visual culture. Gathering progressive German artists alongside leading international innovators, its exhibitions shaped early modernism and drew figures such as Klee and Kandinsky while they were still finding their voices. For many excluded or sidelined by official shows, the Secession offered both artistic freedom and economic survival. This study blends close aesthetic reading with institutional history to provide the first fully documented account of the movement’s rise and impact.| Contents: The Context: Art and Artists in Nineteenth-Century Munich. The Gennossenschaft "Annuals": 1889-91. The Founding of the Munich Secession. The Lyric Tradition: The Secession in the 1890's. Personalities, Politics, and Poverty: The Secession's Demise after 1900.