Poster for the first Secession exhibition
Theseus defeats the Minotaur while Pallas Athena watches – an image of the young artists’ revolt.
The poster was made for the Vienna Secession’s first exhibition in 1898. The austere division of the sheet foreshadows Vienna’s geometric graphics. Copies are in the MAK and the Albertina in Vienna.
Materials: Colour lithograph on paper
Manufacture: Printed with a large empty space in the middle; the censor demanded that Theseus’s nudity be covered by a tree.
The empty middle between the image above and the lettering below.
The tree trunk added to hide Theseus.