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This lithograph is the cover of the magazine Ver Sacrum, No. 4, Vol. 1.
Ver Sacrum (in Latin: Sacred Spring) was the official magazine of the Vienna Secession. Founded by Gustav Klimt and Max Kurzweil, it was published from 1898 to 1903, featuring drawings and designs in the Secession style along with literary contributions from distinguished writers from across Europe. The title of the art journal was taken from a poem by Ludwig Uhland (1787-1862): "You have heard what God wishes, / Go, prepare yourselves, silently obey! /You are the seed grain of a new world, / That is the sacred spring he desires."
Ver Sacrum is not just an informative and entertaining chronicle of the Secession, but - in the original illustrations, which many artists contributed to its pages - an exact mirror of its age.
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