Ver Sacrum (magazine)

Ver Sacrum (meaning "Sacred Spring" in Latin) was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession. Founded by Gustav Klimt and Max Kurzweil,[1] it was published from 1898 to 1903,[2][3] featuring drawings and designs in the Secession style along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. These included Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Maurice Maeterlinck, Knut Hamsun, Otto Julius Bierbaum, Richard Dehmel, Ricarda Huch, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Josef Maria Auchentaller and Arno Holz.[4]

Alfred Roller (1898), Cover of the first issue of Ver Sacrum

See also

References
  1. Ader Paris
  2. Peter Brooker; Sascha Bru; Andrew Thacker; Christian Weikop (2013). The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Vol. III. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 1006. ISBN 978-0-19-965958-6.
  3. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Spring 2015). "Provincializing Paris. The Center-Periphery Narrative of Modern Art in Light of Quantitative and Transnational Approaches". Artl@s Bulletin. 4 (1): 47.
  4. Peter Vergo (1975). Art in Vienna 1898-1918: Klimt, Kokoschka, Schiele, and their Contemporaries. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-1600-0.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ver Sacrum.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.