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Antiquity meets Modernism
When observing the four pillars of Viennese art at the turn of the 19th into the 20th century,
Klimt, Schiele, Moser and Wagner, antiquity is not such a far leap. For how could
architecture, especially Otto Wagner’s, do without it? The art historian Tobias Natter has also
found surprising similarities between the vase paintings of antiquity and Gustav Klimt’s artful
lines. Koloman Moser, finally, designed 18 Egyptian-inspired dancers for a frieze at Vienna’s
Secession as well as an owl’s head – the symbol of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom.
Any table would be extremely …