At the turn of the 20th century， Vienna became an epicenter for new thought， increasingly running counter to the prevalent conservatism symbolized by the neo-classical facades of the buildings in the city’s Ringstrasse。 During the time of the modernist movement led by Gustav Klimt， Josef Hoffmann， and Koloman Moser， among others， a multidisciplinary environment emerged in which music， writing， and intellectual thought flourished， bringing different arts together in a “Gesamtkunstwerk” a total work of art。


Covering all artistic fields， from painting to photography， the Wiener Werkstatte and decorative arts， fashion and architecture of fin-de-siecle Vienna and including biographies for featured artists， Vienna 1900 Complete is an unprecedented compilation of richly colored images curated and authored in a single volume by three leading scholars of the period。