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Secession Building, Vienna
Architect Joseph Maria Olbrich designed the Secession Building (1898-1899) in Vienna, Austria, as an exhibition space for a group of artists known as the Secession after they seceded from Vienna’s tradition-bound Academy of Fine Arts. The white block is crowned by a gilded dome of wrought-iron laurel leaves.
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