Glass of the Avant-Garde from Vienna Secession to Bauhaus : the Torsten Bröhan collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid = Cristal de vanguardia de la Secessión vienesa a la Bauhaus : Colección Torsten Bröhan del Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid /... by Bröhan, Torsten

Gustav Klimt : an icon of fin-de-siècle art. by 50MINUTES.COM

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Gustav Klimt; Context; Vienna in 1900; The declining role of the academy; The influence of psychoanalysis; Biography; Childhood and early years; The Vienna Secession; Klimt's golden years; Characteristics of Klimt's work; Four main interests; The role of light; Notable works; Pallas Athene; Beethoven Frieze; Philosophy; The Kiss; Danaë; Klimt's legacy; Egon Schiele; Friedensreich Hundertwasser; Summary; Further reading…”
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A history of interior design / John Pile & Judith Gura. by Pile, John F.

Table of Contents: “…Prehistory to early civilizations -- Classical civilizations : Greece and Rome -- Early Christian, Byzantine, and Romanesque -- Islamic and Asian traditions -- The later Middle Ages -- The Renaissance of Italy -- Baroque and Rococo in Italy and northern Europe -- Renaissance, Baroque, and Rococo in France and Spain -- Renaissance to Georgian in the low countries and England -- Colonial and Federal America -- The Regency, revivals, and Industrial Revolution -- The Victorian era -- The aesthetic movements -- Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession -- Eclectcisim -- The emergence of modernism -- Art Deco and industrial design -- The spread of early modernism in Europe -- Modernism in America -- The ascendancy of modernism -- After the international style : the late twentieth century -- Design on a new playing field.…”

The memory factory : the forgotten women artists of Vienna 1900 / Julie M. Johnson. by Johnson, Julie M.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: Writing, Erasing, Silencing: Tina Blau and the (Woman) Artist's Biography; Chapter Two: Elena Luksch-Makowsky and the New Spatial Aesthetic at the Vienna Secession; Chapter Three: Broncia Koller and Interiority in Public Art Exhibitions; Chapter Four: Rediscovering Helene Funke: The Invisible Foremother; Chapter Five: Teresa Ries in the Memory Factory; Chapter Six: Women as Public Artists in the Institutional Landscape; Chapter Seven: The Ephemeral Museum of Women Artists.…”
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Music and modernism, c. 1849-1950 / edited by Charlotte de Mille.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Charlotte de Mille -- How to paint a fugue / Peter Vergo -- Music, modernism and the Vienna secession : musical form in Ver sacrum (1898-1903) / Diane V. …”
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Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele—The Greatest Painters of the World / Prime Entertainment Group.

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Gustav Klimt. by Bade, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…His Life; Beginnings; Secession; Scandal; Fin de siècle Vienna; Lovers and Friends; Drawings and sketches; Society portraits; Pattern and nudity; Klimt's Legacy; His work; FABLE; IDYLL; FEMALE NUDE LYING DOWN; THE THEATRE IN TAORMINA; AUDITORIUM IN THE OLD BURGTHEATER, VIENNA; PORTRAIT OF JOSEPH PEMBAUER; ANCIENT GREEK ART I; LOVE; TRAGEDY (PUBLISHED AS N° 66 IN ALLEGORIEN NEUE FOLGE); MUSIC I; COMPOSITIONAL SKETCH FOR MEDICINE; PALLAS ATHENA; PORTRAIT OF SONJA KNIPS; POSTER FOR THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF THE VIENNA SECESSION; NUDA VERITAS; SCHUBERT AT THE PIANO; THE BEETHOVEN FRIEZE.…”
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20th century design : the definitive illustrated sourcebook / Judith Miller. by Miller, Judith, 1951-2023

Table of Contents: “…The Arts and Crafts Movement ; The Vienna Secession and Charles Rennie Mackintosh ; Furniture gallery ; The Wienerwerstätte ; Darmstadt and the Deutscher Werkbund ; Ceramics gallery ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; Metalware gallery -- The Craft movement. …”

Vienna : a Cultural History. by Parsons, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Some Sights Associated with Maria Theresia and Joseph IIChapter Eighteen: BIEDERMEIER VIENNA; The World of Biedermeier; Some Sights Associated with Biedermeier Culture; Chapter Nineteen: FROM REVOLUTION TO RINGSTRAßE: THE GRÜNDERZEIT (FOUNDERS PERIOD) AND RINGSTAßEN ERA; The Strauss Dynasty; The Ringstrassen Era; Musical Innovation and Rivalries in Ringstrassen Vienna; Historicist Buildings along the Ringstrasse; Chapter Twenty: FIN-DE-SIÈCLE VIENNA; The Vienna Secession; Erotic Vienna; The Realists; The Coffee-house Literati; Some Sights Associated with fin-desiècle Vienna.…”
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