The Secession is one of the world's oldest independent exhibition houses dedicated to contemporary art, housed in Joseph Maria Olbrich's iconic Art Nouveau building that defined Viennese Jugendstil. Visitors can see Gustav Klimt's famous Beethoven Frieze (1902), a masterwork depicting humanity's search for happiness inspired by Beethoven's 9th Symphony, along with rotating contemporary art exhibitions.
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