The Viennese Bohème
Works from the Hagen Society
From 25 July 2025
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ALBERTINA MUSEUM, VIENNA
In 1905 the Hagen Society, quite certain of its own significance, donated a bundle of over 800 drawings to the ALBERTINA. Today, this Viennese society of artists is indeed regarded as a forerunner of the Secession and the Hagenbund. Between 1880 and 1900, its members met regularly at the pub Zum blauen Freihaus and at Café Sperl. The convivial atmosphere gave rise to hundreds of drawings and watercolors by artists such as Josef Engelhardt, Adolf Böhm, Rudolf Bacher, Johann Victor Krämer, and others.
Based on this donation, the ALBERTINA mounts a firstever exhibition of portraits and caricatures of the group’s members, grotesques, images of Viennese characters, dream-landscapes, and drawings that already foreshadow the Secession. Several of these works were published in the art magazine Ver Sacrum. This show is conceived as a contribution to research on Viennese modernism.
The exhibition is on view from 25 July until 12 October 2025.
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Adolf Böhm: Tree in a storm, 1897
16,4 x 28,2 cm, Pen and black ink, watercolor, white opaque paint, on yellowish-blue paper
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
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Carl Müller: Inside the forest, December 1896
31,3 x 19,9 cm, Watercolor, opaque paints
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Johann Victor Krämer: Members of the Hagen Society, 1886/1887
9,9 x 15,4 cm, Albumin paper
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Maximilian Lenz: Study trip to Taormina, around 1894
30,9 x 22,3 cm, Watercolor, opaque paint, white opaque paint, black ink
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Rudolf Bacher: The thief, without dating
19,3 x 28,9 cm, Pencil on light green paper
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Rudolf Konopa: Monkey looking for fleas on a poodle, without dating
15 x 15,5 cm, Watercolor
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
Rudolf Konopa: The Sacred Art, without dating
11,5 x 15,8 cm, Watercolor
(The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
16,4 x 28,2 cm, Pen and black ink, watercolor, white opaque paint, on yellowish-blue paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
31,3 x 19,9 cm, Watercolor, opaque paints (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
9,9 x 15,4 cm, Albumin paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
30,9 x 22,3 cm, Watercolor, opaque paint, white opaque paint, black ink (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
19,3 x 28,9 cm, Pencil on light green paper (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
15 x 15,5 cm, Watercolor (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna
11,5 x 15,8 cm, Watercolor (The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna)
© Photo: The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna