From the 14th Vienna Secession exhibition in 1902 to the development of Constructivism in the 1920s, art in Austria- Hungary underwent a seismic change that challenged preconceptions, and broke the rules to shake up European Art. Tracing the evolution of art during this time period, this book makes valuable connections between the seemingly disparate Formkunst of Vienna, Cubism in Prague, and Hungarian Constructivism. Focusing on the works of artists such as Josef Hoffmann, Gustav Klimt, Josef Capek, Koloman Moser, Egon Schiele, Frantis Kupka, Lajos Kassa, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and drawing from the latest scholarly research, this book presents a fundamental reinterpretation of turn-of-the-century art as it flourished in the Habsburg Empire

• Form art: modernism in the Habsburg Empire / Agnes Husslein-Arco
• Johannes Feichtinger
• Alexander Klee
• Vojtech Lahoda
• Marketa Theinhardt
• Helena Koenigsmarkova
• Rainald Franz
• Krisztina Passuth
• Science, philosophy, and art: intellectual constellations and traditions in the late Habsburg Monarchy / Form art: a phenomenon of a cultural region / Cubism in Prague as a form art / Frantisek Kupka and form art / Children's toys in the Czech lands and Vienna and the characteristics of form art / Artel and the Wiener Werkstatte: a convergence of ideas / Geometric forms in Hungarian modern painting / Form art after 1945?: thoughts on the reception of form art in the example of Fritz Wotruba
• Plates
• Lenders
• Biographies of artists in the exhibition