The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn-of-the-Century Munich

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In April 1892 the first art Secession in the German-speaking countries came into being in Munich Central Europes undisputed capital of the visual arts. Featuring the work of German painters sculptors and designers as well as that of vanguard artists from around the world the Munich Secession was a progressive force in the German art world for nearly a decade its exhibitions regularly attended and praised by Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky and other modernists at the outset of their careers. "Those artists who were not included or who thought themselves inadequately represented in the large official exhibitions held in the major German cities had economic as well as aesthetic reasons for creating new outlets for their work.... The first of these Secessions is the subject of an interesting and well-researched study by Maria Makela."--James Joll The New York Review of Books "Makela combines aesthetic analysis with institutional history and does so very well. She has written the first thoroughly documented account of the Munich Secession in any language." --Peter Paret The Art Bulletin "...a carefully documented chronicle of the Munich Secession...an indispensable guide. It is a pioneering study that manages to be solid yet provocative..."--Brooks Adams Art in America