The Vienna Secession was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian painters, graphic artists, sculptors and architects, including Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner and Gustav Klimt, who resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists in protest against its support for conservative artistic styles. The group sought international artistic dialogue, opposed narrow artistic nationalism, and pursued a unified aesthetic spanning painting, architecture and the decorative arts. Its architectural legacy centers on the Secession Building in Vienna, designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, a student of Otto Wagner, and completed in 1897 and 1898 as a domed exhibition hall with a sculptural frieze over its entrance that became the symbol of the movement. Otto Wagner's own work of the period moved toward geometric modernism, using straight lines and new materials such as reinforced concrete and aluminum.
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