The artistic stagnation of vienna at the end of the 19th century was rudely shaken by the artists of the vienna secession their work shocked a conservative public but their successive exhibitions their magazine ver sacrum and their application to the applied arts and architecture soon brought them an enthusiastic following and wealthy patronage art in vienna 18981918 klimt kokoschka schiele and their contemporaries now published in its 4th edition brilliantly traces the course of thi