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Another feature of Secession is its international tone. Vienna was a magnet for artists
from the Habsburg-ruled lands. The movement was also greatly influenced by Otto Wag-
ner. The Secession building, for instance, may have been domed by a floral 'cabbage',
but its form had the hallmarks of Otto Wagner's strictness of lines.
'Because ornamentation is no longer an organic part of our culture it no longer expresses our culture.
An ornament created today has nothing to do with us, no connection to human beings and nothing to do
with the world order. It's not capable of developing any further.' Adolf Loos
