Secession XIVth Exhibition Alfred Roller

• Created in 1902 for the Vienna Secession exhibition held in honour of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven • The poster shows a detail from the mural ‘Die sinkende Nacht’ (‘The Falling Night’), which hung behind the Beethoven monument at the exhibition • Roller was a co-founder of the Vienna Secession in 1897 and served as its president in the year this poster was created In 1902, Alfred Roller designed the poster for the XIVth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, held in honour of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827). Max Klinger’s Beethoven monument stands in the main hall of the exhibition as a tribute to this artist who, as the catalogue states, ‘has brought clarity to our view of art through both his creative work and his words’. Roller, who was president of the association at the time, contributed a large, stencilled painting entitled ‘Die sinkende Nacht’ (The Fading Night) as a monumental backdrop to the sculpture; the poster shows a detail from this work. Set against a backdrop of austere ornamental patterns, angelic figures, floating low and bowing deeply, carry the extinguished suns to their grave. Nature and humankind are dissolved into purely ornamental, almost geometric forms, in which the outline of the human figure is merely schematically suggested. The poster takes a single figure from the procession and combines it with bold, condensed lettering: here, Roller reveals himself to be a master of poster art, skilfully blending ornamental form, lettering and colour into a harmonious, artistic unity. | 1864 Brünn – Wien 1935 | Moderne Kunst | Druckgrafik | Nummer: 26x2386 | Provenance: Sammlung/Nachlass Serge Sabarsky, New York; Sammlung/Stiftung Vally Sabarsky, New York.

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