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Vienna 1900 in the MAK Collection Online
Ukiyo-e 浮世絵 (color woodcut) / Under the wave at Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki namiura 神奈川沖浪裏) Design: Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北齋, execution: Japan, about 1830

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Vienna 1900 in the MAK Collection Online

A central focus of the MAK’s collection and core competence is Viennese design and decorative arts from around 1900. Although these holdings will not be physically accessible until the new presentation of the Permanent Collection Vienna 1900 opens in early 2026, they can be viewed digitally. The situation in Vienna around 1900 offered two paths to modernism, whose future viability was only decided after the First World War. This development led from the overcoming of historicism from around 1890 to the Nazi takeover in 1938, which marked the end of an independent Viennese design language. It was not linear…

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