![]() ![]() Bernhard Kleinschmidt, Die "gemeinsame Sendung".Die Zeitschrift der Wiener Secession 1898–1903, Vienna, 1983. PDF volumes on the website of the Belvedere Museum.Scans on the website of the University of Heidelberg.Scans in the Austrian National Library's digital editions.In June 1899 the magazine was parodied in Quer Sacrum, subtitled "The Journal of the Union of Fine Artists and Crazyland." From the third year the magazine was issued twice a month with a smaller print run.Ĭontributors 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. In 1899 a folio-sized supplement with limited edition prints was produced and sold. The magazine was printed monthly for the first two years, during which time there was also a Founder's edition, which was not for sale. ![]() Each unusual square-format issue cost 2 kronen. Secession artists supplied 471 drawings, 55 lithographic prints and 216 woodcuts.Ī total of 120 magazines were published from January 1898 to December 1903. Alfred Roller, who designed the cover of the first issue-a stylized red tree against an ochre background-saw the page spaces of Ver Sacrum as analogous to the exhibition spaces. ![]() The exhibitions, art- and design-works, exhibition catalogues, and magazine were seen as a Gesamtkunstwerk, with the magazine often supplying statistics and sales and recycling images and photographs of the exhibition. Secession members decided to publish a magazine at their first meeting on June 21, 1897. Lavishly illustrated and ornamented, its aim was to spread awareness of modern art and its pages also included literary articles, art criticism, and art-historical essays. The magazine Ver Sacrum (Latin for "Sacred Spring") was published between 1898-1903 as the official organ of the Vereinigung bildender Künstler Österreichs (Association of Austrian Artists) and was the most important publication in the early years of the Vienna Secession. ![]()
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