Moriz Jung

Artwork: Tête-à-tête am Wolkenkratzer, 1911

Moriz Jung (1885–1915) was an Austrian graphic artist and a key member of the Vienna Secession, the movement founded in 1897 that broke with Austria’s conservative art establishment in favour of geometric pattern, stylised natural forms, and design woven into everyday life.

Working across woodcut, lithography and poster design, Jung made bold, dynamic images in the Secessionist style. The works collected here date from 1911 and 1912: a rendezvous at a skyscraper, a rainbow as an aviation obstacle, and his animal studies — a watchful greyhound and a stalwart bulldog. His career was cut short when he died young, during the First World War.