05-Secession. Above the entrance is a programmatic inscription, "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit" ("To every age its art, to every art its freedom"

26 photos to record the bright, sunny close to this second day. Two important works of architecture from 1900, a Red Army Liberation Monument from 1945, and a walk through a market. (Adjust your screen brightness as necessary.)

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01-Secession Building. Architect Joseph Maria Olbrich was fully aware of the provocation that would be caused by the exhibition pavilion he designed in 1898 for the Wiener Secession, a society of artists founded in 1897.

02-Secession. Built on a site provided by the city, the building is one of the best-known examples of European architecture at the transition from Historicism to Modernism.

03-Secession. A front building with an exhibition hall behind, with distinctly separate volumes. The plain exterior is animated only by sparingly applied ornament. The dark tower shows up in a later photo of the Nashmarkt.

04-Secession. The building is known affectionately by the Viennese as the "golden head of cabbage" because of its dome of 3,000 gilded wrought-iron laurel leaves.

05-Secession. Above the entrance is a programmatic inscription, "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit" ("To every age its art, to every art its freedom" — Ludwig Hevesi).

06-Secession. The temple-like entrance contrasts with the sober functionality of the exhibition hall behind it. The art magazine Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring) played an important role in the Secessionist movement.

07-A slightly different translation: "For every time its art; for art its freedom.'

08-Corner detail. The Secession Movement was founded in 1897 by artists led by Gustav Klimt who had split with the conservative Kunstlerhaus.

09-Naschmarkt. These food stalls are diagonally across the street from Secession and extend several blocks to Majolica Haus.

05-Secession. Above the entrance is a programmatic inscription, "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit" ("To every age its art, to every art its freedom" — Ludwig Hevesi).