Roller went on to become head designer at the Vienna Opera and at the Burgtheater. Roller’s innovative stage design placed a new focus on light, color and space, with simplified staging.

Collaborating closely with Mahler, Roller realized and completed the musician’s vision through staging. From 1903 to 1907, he was set designer to Gustav Mahler during the time the composer was music director of the Vienna Hofoper (Court Opera), where they did ground-breaking work together. Roller also applied the ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk to his set designs. He at first studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Christian Griepenkerl. Buy Secession XIV, Vienna by Alfred Roller as a wall art print at Posterlounge: Many materials & sizes available Picture frames with framing service. His wife was Mileva Roller and they were members of the Viennese Secession movement. 18641935), Secession XIV, Beethoven, This Kiss to the Whole World: Klimt and the Vienna. For the exhibition, the Secession building was devoted entirely to Beethoven, with his music playing (in an arrangement by Gustav Mahler), the display of art and design created especially for the occasion (notably, Klimt’s Beethovenfries) and, at the exhibition’s center, Max Klinger’s monument to Beethoven. Alfred Roller (2 October 1864 21 June 1935) was an Austrian painter, graphic designer, and set designer. Alfred Roller (Austrian, born Moravia (now Czech Republic). The Secession’s Beethoven exhibition (1902) was, perhaps, the group’s greatest expression of the Gesamtkunstwerk. He participated in the planning and design of the Secession’s exhibitions, and his new, modern style of exhibition design was exemplified in the 1901 Secession exhibition, which featured paintings by Giovanni Segantini and sculpture by Rodin. Founded by Gustav Klimt and Max Kurzweil, 1 it was published from 1898 to 1903, 2 3 featuring drawings and designs in the Secession style along with literary contributions from. Roller was the founding editor of the Secession’s, Ver Sacrum, an artistically designed and illustrated publication that included text, music, and poetry. Alfred Roller (1898), Cover of the first issue of Ver Sacrum Ver Sacrum (meaning 'Sacred Spring' in Latin) was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession.

Like his artist-colleagues, Roller also taught at Vienna’s Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts).įor the Secession, the Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork)-a unification of artists and craftsmen of different disciplines (painting, sculpture, architecture, design, etc.) in the creation of an overarching concept-was the new ideal. With Gustav Klimt and others, he was one of the founder’s of the Vienna Secession (1897), the multi-disciplinary group of artists that broke away from what they saw as the conservative Vienna Academy and its historicist style, to create new, modern art. Alfred Roller (1864 Brno – 1935 Vienna) was an artist and designer who made his greatest impact as a stage designer.

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