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Reigen (1903)
Arthur Schnitzler’s play Reigen Where to See
shocked the Viennese with its 1900s Vienna
explicit sexuality.
Otto Wagner designed the
Karlsplatz Pavilions (see p150),
the Wagner Apartments (p143)
and the Kirche am Steinhof (p162).
Adolf Loos designed the Loos-
haus (p94) and the American Bar
(p107). Suburban architecture
includes the Wagner Villas
(p162). Works by Klimt, Schiele
and Kokoschka are displayed
at the Upper Belvedere
(pp156–7), the Museum of
Altar by Modern Art (p122) and the
Remigius Leopold Museum (p122).
Geyling

The Kiss (1907–8)
In paintings like
this, Gustav Klimt
developed the
glittering, erotic style
that characterized
much of his work.
The Secession Building is
where Gustav Klimt’s Beethoven
Frieze is exhibited (p57).
Kolo Moser
window

Sigmund Freud
Freud developed his theory of The Wagner Apartments are
decorated with Jugendstil motifs
psychoanalysis in Vienna over (p58) by Kolo Moser (p59).
almost 50 years (see p112).

1914 Archduke
1911 Death of Ferdinand assassinated
Gustav Mahler in Sarajevo; international
crisis follows resulting in
World War I
1910 1915
1913 Arnold Schönberg’s
1910 Death of Karl Lueger Chamber Symphony and 1916 Death of Franz Joseph
works by Anton von
1908 The Kiss by Klimt is Webern and Alban Berg 1918 Declaration of Austrian Republic after
first exhibited performed at the Musik- abdication of Emperor Karl I. Austria shrinks from
verein, provoking a riot an empire of 50 million to a state of 6.5 million

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