The Secession Building in Vienna was designed by Joseph Maria Olbrich, with Koloman Moser and Gustav Klimt also credited as designers. The text names Karl Wittgenstein as financier. The infobox gives construction from 1897 to 1898, and the text gives completion in 1898. It is called an art exhibition pavilion and a contemporary art exhibition hall.
The style is Art Nouveau in its Secession branch. The infobox lists 40 by 30 meters (131 by 98 feet), labeled diameter, an odd term for a rectangular plan, and 1,000 square meters (11,000 square feet) of floor area. Above the entrance is the motto "To every age its art, to every art its freedom." Three gorgon figures represent painting, sculpture and architecture, and Moser's owls decorate the facade. The article states no materials.
Klimt's Beethoven Frieze is housed on the lower floor. It is an artist-run kunsthalle, and the article gives no admission details.
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