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Five Schools, Built to Deepen · Vienna Secession
Plakatentwurf für die „Erste grosse Kunstausstellung" der Secession
Koloman Moser · Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs (Wiener Secession), 1897
What it is
A hand-painted poster design by Koloman Moser, 1897: watercolour, gouache, coloured pencil and metallic pigment on tracing canvas, made for the Vienna Secession's first large art exhibition. This is the artwork behind the poster, not a printed sheet.
Why it matters
1897 was the year Vienna's younger artists walked out on the academy and founded the Secession, and their first exhibition was the announcement. Moser, one of the movement's core designers, built the image that would carry that argument onto the street. The design is the moment the break went public.
What to notice
Look at the metallic passages — worked in real metal pigment, they read as leaf rather than a flat printed yellow.
The instant a rebellion had to fit on a wall.
Provenance
- School
- Vienna Secession (Various)
- Designer
- Koloman Moser
- Format
- Exhibition poster
- Poster published
- Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs (Wiener Secession), 1897
- Source
- Leopold Museum, Vienna
Live trademark
Wiener Secession — sold here as history, never adopted into this house’s own branding.
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 24x36" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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