Secessions : Klimt - Stuck - Liebermann

Exhibition at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 23 June - 22 October 2023

At the dawn of modernism, the artistic avant-gardes pushed for freedom both in artistic institutions and in the subjects they expressed. The most important secessions in German-speaking Europe emerged quickly, their members overlapping: in 1892 in Munich, in 1897 in Vienna and in 1899 in Berlin. Even today, they are linked to the influential protagonists Gustav Klimt, Franz von Stuck and Max Liebermann, and to their works.

This catalogue of the first exhibition devoted to a comparison of the three artistic metropolises of the turn of the century, Munich, Vienna and Berlin, includes over 200 paintings, sculptures and graphic works by Klimt, von Stuck and Liebermann and 80 other artists of the period.

The juxtaposition of the three secessions makes it possible to illustrate common objectives and ambitions beyond local specificities, while highlighting the phenomenon of the secessions and their contribution to the development of art in Western Europe, in particular by enabling innovative currents such as Impressionism and Symbolism to make inroads into the German-speaking world.