Secession House:

The Secession House was the home to the Secession movement at the turn of the century. The building was designed by Josef Olbrich in 1898 as a temple to art, and a refuge from the pressure of the conservative world of nineteenth century Vienna. The building is topped by an enormous dome decorated as a laurel tree with leaves and berries (3000 and 700, respectively) all painted with gold-leaf. Much of the work was done by the young artists of the movement without pay, and the words printed over the entrance read “to every age its art and to art its freedom.”