Gold leaf and hidden minds in Vienna
Painting the invisible air
Dreams and magic beyond Europe
When ideas became the masterpiece
suaz Vienna Secession artists built an exhibition hall topped with golden laurel leaves to display deep psychological truths instead of historical scenes.
suaz Viennese expressionism captured the intense psychological anxiety of society before World War I.
suaz Swipe away the gold leaf to discover how Vienna's artists painted our hidden minds.
Vienna's Secession: The Vienna Secession building's golden dome is made of 3,000 gilded bronze leaves and is affectionately nicknamed 'the golden cabbage' by locals.
A system of psychological theory and therapy that investigates the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind. In 1899, Sigmund Freud founded this clinical method in Vienna to investigate the human unconscious.
Which Viennese psychoanalyst's theories on the subconscious deeply influenced the expressionist artists of Vienna?
Beside her fashion career, Emilie Flöge is widely believed to be the model for which iconic golden painting?
What radical change did designer Emilie Flöge introduce to women's clothing in early 1900s Vienna?
Who co-founded the Wiener Werkstätte cooperative in 1903 to bring high-quality design to everyday objects?