Art Nouveau inkwell

Fantastic art nouveau ( Sezessionsstil ) inkwell. Probably Vienan. Circa 1900. Bronze or brass and cristal. No chips. No cracks. 7.5" x 7.5" x 6".

The Vienna Secession or (also known as Secessionsstil or Sezessionsstil in Austria) was part of the secession movement varied, which is now covered by the general term Art Nouveau. Formed in 1897 by a group of 19 artists from Vienna, who had resigned from the Association. The first chairman was Gustav Klimt. Style separatists Unlike other movements, there is a style that unites the work of all artists who were part of the Vienna Secession. The Secession building could be considered the icon of the movement. Over his entrance was carved the phrase "at every age its art and to art its freedom". Secession artists were concerned mainly with exploring the possibilities of art beyond the limits of academic tradition. It hopes to create a new style that owed nothing to historical influence. In this way, were very much in keeping with the spirit iconoclastic turn-of-the-century Vienna (time and place that also saw the publication of Freud, the first written). Secessionist style was exhibited in a magazine that the group produced, called "Ver Sacrum", which appears highly decorative works representative of Art Nouveau (not Deco) period. Secessionist architects often decorated the surface of their buildings with linear ornamentation in a form commonly called whiplash or eel style. Majolika Haus Otto Wagner in Vienna (c. 1898) is a significant example the use of Austria-line way. Otto Wagner, amending decorative item in a classic modernist found no favor with some of his students who broke away to form the secessionists. One was Josef Hoffmann who left to form the Wiener Werkstätte, an Austrian equivalent Arts and Crafts movement. A good example of his work is the Stoclet House in Brussels (1905). See Gustav Klimt Egon Schiele, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll, Oskar Kokoschka