This book will introduce you to the art of Vienna in 1900. It was at the turn of the century that such masterpieces as Gustav Klimt's portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, Egon Schiele's self-portrait with a physalis, the first Art Nouveau church Am Steinhof and Joseph Hoffmann's square chair were created in Vienna. The connection between the political problems of the decline of Austria-Hungary will become clear to you. , the Viennese culture of pleasure and secret vices, which have a vivid continuation in the modern art of Austria. You will see how these Austrian artists expanded the traditional concept of art.