This paperback book is in very good condition. Externally there is some minor edge wear. Internally all the pages are clean, tight and unmarked. "To the age its art, to art its freedom" A group of young artists were about to call an "association of Austrian artists Vienna secession" into being and had chosen Gustav Klimt as their first president. This market the beginning of the Artists' Association, which has continued to play a leading role in the cultural life of Vienna down to the present day. Among its first members were the architects Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich and the painters Josef Engelhart, Carl Moll, and Kolo Moser. This publication details their beginnings and the succession building and the Presidents of the Vienna Secession from 1897 to 1997.