Poster for the First Vienna Secession Exhibition
1898 · Colour lithograph · Wien Museum, Vienna
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt (1862–1918)
- Year
- 1898
- Medium
- Colour lithograph
- Original size
- 97 × 70 cm
- Collection
- Wien Museum, Vienna (impression)
- Movement
- Vienna Secession
A tall cream sheet with almost nothing in the middle: across the top, Theseus wrestles the Minotaur in a brown and gold frieze labelled Ver Sacrum, and at the right edge Minerva stands in a red robe and helmet with a spear and a round shield carrying a Gorgon's face. The lettering below announces the first exhibition of the Secession, the artists' group Klimt led as its first president, in the Horticultural Society building on the Parkring, opening at the end of March 1898. The Wien Museum catalogues this impression, a colour lithograph from the Vienna firm of A. Berger, as the censored version.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
Cream paper, ochre, black and a single flash of red make a graphic poster for a study, office or hallway on a white or stone wall. Pair it with Mucha's Salon des Cent poster, hung at 16×24 in a black frame.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Vienna Secession painting
- Era
- 19th century (1898)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- gold
- Mood
- decorative, sophisticated
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, anniversary, her, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway.
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
An exhibition poster
The same artwork as a gallery exhibition poster — title, artist & date typeset beneath the image on a soft ground.
