Vienna Secession exhibition postcard. 2nd secession, November-December 1898. Interior design by Joseph Maria Olbrich (1876-1908). Mittelsaal / Middle Room. Reproduced in V. S. catalog 10.
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908), Secession II, 1898. Poster. Color lithograph, 58 x 51 cm. Acquired by exchange. 329.1977. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Joseph Maria Olbrich (1867-1908) was the architect of the Secession building. He also designed this poster with its elegant cursive “S”s. Richard Harflinger (1873-1948) remade the poster for a 1913 exhibition of Secession posters.