Vienna 1900 av Rainer Metzger

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<p>Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: ¿To every age its art ¿ to every art its freedom;¿ and tremors warned of looming political disintegration when the Austrian capital passed into a new century.</p><p>Across economics, science, art, and music, Vienna blossomed into a ¿laboratory of modernity,¿ one which nurtured some of the greatest artistic innovators¿from Egon Schiele¿s unflinching nude portraits to Gustav Klimt¿s decadent Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, from the ornamental seams and glass floors of Otto Wagner to Ditha Moser¿s calendars adorned in golden deities.</p><p>Discover the zeitgeist, the scandals, and the extraordinary protagonists in this introduction to a transformative epoch. Across painting, sculpture, architecture, and design, we explore all the movers and shakers through insightful profil