Vienna 1900 - the Birth of Viennese Modernism with Dr. George Scheper, PhD

Course Title: Vienna 1900 - the Birth of Viennese Modernism

Instructor: Dr. George Scheper, PhD

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March 25, 2025 - April 29, 2025 (6 Sessions) 

Tuesday,  6:00PM ET - 8:00PM ET 

Virtual via Zoom

Course Description: The Habsburg capital's transition from a world of aristocratic Catholic conservatism to avant-garde experimentation culminated in an explosion of creativity in art, literature, music, philosophy and science. We first survey the background of 18th century Baroque and 19th century bourgeois “Old Vienna,” and the comfortable bourgeois lifestyle of "the waltz city." We then turn to the distinctive innovations in art and architecture that take us from the middle-class successes of the Ringstrasse era, to the bolder work of the artists of the Viennese Secession -- Otto Wagner, Gustav Klimt and Josef Hoffmann -- and conclude with the starker work of Expressionists Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka, on the eve of WW I.

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