A group of progressive artists, including Koloman Moser, founded the Association of Visual Artists of Austria, Secession, under the leadership of Gustav Klimt in 1897. Moser, in particular, is regarded as the outstanding graphic artist of the Secession due to his design of posters, exhibition concepts, and the magazine Ver Sacrum. He was the ideal master for the realization of the total work of art "Vienna around 1900" - his creativity and productivity were hard to surpass. With an endless imagination, he worked extraordinarily virtuously with a wide variety of materials. In 1903, Moser, together with Josef Hoffmann and the industrialist Fritz Waerndorfer, founded the Wiener Werkstätte. Through close collaboration between the designing artist and the executing craftsman, a completely new level of quality in the arts and crafts was achieved here. From 1907 onwards, he turned his attention to.