Ver Sacrum : La Revue De La Sécession Viennoise, 1898-1903 Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Otto Wagner, Alfred Roller, Max Kurzweil, Joseph M. Olbrich, Josef Hoffmann

Conceived by Gustav Klimt, Max Kurzweil and Ludwig Hevesi, the magazine Ver Sacrum developed new forms of typographic and editorial design and illustration. The influence of these innovations is one of the foundations of European modern art. 471 drawings, 55 lithographs and intaglio engravings and 216 xylographs were created specifically for the magazine during its six years of publication. Ver Sacrum offered important contributions on literature, music and contemporary art, as well as a rich harvest of engravings and decorative inventions by the masters of the Secession, with the aim of educating the public in modern taste and, at the same time, of creating the total work of art - the Gesamtkunstwerk.

This book brings together, for the first time, the most innovative and creative covers of the Ver Sacrum issues, as well as an anthology of the most significant xylographs, lithographs and intaglio engravings. It tells the story and illustrates in 450 reproductions the originality of a new graphic language that was developed as a real manifesto and was one of the precursor and founding movements of modernity.