Dr David Perkins is the Head of Research (Art & Humanities) at The King’s School, Canterbury and will be presenting a King’s Talk on Vienna from 1890 to 1914. 

Vienna 1890 to 1914 was a prime site of change in Western intellectual, cultural, and artistic life: it was a fertile breeding ground for what we now call modernism. There was a concentrated burst of creativity with genuine innovators in different fields: architecture, arts and crafts, economics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, psychoanalysis. Vienna was the city in which a good deal of modern art and thought emerged in a crisis of political disintegration, a crisis of disintegration that still speaks to us today. Fin de siecle Vienna was also Adolf Hitler’s Vienna.

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