Vienna Secession vs Vienna Secession Graphics
Vienna Secession Graphics is the cross-discipline counterpart of Vienna Secession — the graphic wing of the same Secession / Wiener Werkstätte movement.
Vienna Secession
The Viennese branch of Art Nouveau, founded by artists who seceded from the conservative academy — pairing clean geometric massing with concentrated zones of gilded, stylised ornament.
- Clean cubic white volumes with broad unbroken planes
- Ornament concentrated into deliberate accents
- Gilded stylised foliage — the famous laurel-leaf dome
- Rectilinear, geometric discipline tempering Art Nouveau curves
- Gesamtkunstwerk unity of building, interior, and graphics
Vienna Secession Graphics
The graphic output of the Vienna Secession and Wiener Werkstätte, marrying gridded geometric ornament to gilded, Klimt-era pattern, custom square lettering, and the near-square journal Ver Sacrum.
- Geometric gridded ornament and checkerboards
- Custom geometric display lettering
- Near-square Ver Sacrum format
- Gilded flat decorative pattern fields
- Generous, structured white space
At a glance
| Vienna Secession | Vienna Secession Graphics | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1897–1918 | 1897–1920 |
| Discipline | Architecture | Graphic Design |
| Region | Austria, Vienna, Central Europe | Austria |
| Family | Art Nouveau | Art Nouveau, Secession |
| Formal traits | geometric, gilded, white, ornamented | geometric-ornament, custom-lettering, flat-color, gridded |
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