A Total Art
Drawings from the Vienna Secession
Musée d’Orsay
- From 27 January to 17 May 2026
- Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 75007 Paris
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Organized around the recent acquisition of a drawing by Josef Hoffmann, “A Total Art” is a Focus on the Musée d’Orsay’s collections of drawings by Vienna Secession artists.
Through the selection on display, discover the principles underlying an innovative form of architecture emblematic of Viennese Modernism.
In 2023, the Museum’s architecture collections were complemented by a rare drawing by Joseph Hoffmann, making a further addition to the forty-two works by pupils of Otto Wagner – Emil Hoppe, Marcel Kammerer and Otto Schönthal – acquired in 1997.
Created the same year the Stoclet Palace in Brussels was completed, this extraordinarily powerful graphic project testifies to the research carried out by the Austrian master at the height of his career.
Around this acquisition, which is on show for the first time, the Focus returns to the notion of total art, which was a central concern of Viennese Modernism’s architects.
Josef Hoffmann
Austrian Pavilion, International Art Exhibition, Rome, 1911
© GrandPalaisRmn (musée d’Orsay) / Michel Urtado
Curator
- Clémence Raynaud, Chief Curator, Architecture
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