Berlin Secession Painting. The Berlin Secession is a German artist group founded on May 2,1898.
   As the antithesis to the dominant academic art industry of the time, it has since become the leading art association at involving the transfer of Munich artists. Today, this is stylistically referred to as Berlin Impressionism and occupies an outstanding position in German impressionism.
   The upheavals that led to the formation of the Berlin Secession and other groups of artists began in 1891 on the occasion of the Great International Art Exhibition in Berlin. The dispute was about the Department of Norwegian Artists, which escalated in the following year, after the commission of the Association of Berlin artists had rejected the images of Edvard Munch.
   In February 1892, under the leadership of Walter Leistikow, Franz Skarbina and Max Liebermann, some painters joined together to form a free association for the organization of artistic exhibitions and organized an art exhibition in the spring of 1892 as Die Elf, without, however, leaving the Verein Berliner Kunstler or to avoid the annual salon-the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. The Free Union of the XXIV was founded in Munich and exhibited under this name in Berlin.
   A revision of the statutes of the General German Art Cooperative by Anton von Werner and Hugo Schnars-Alquist held in October 1892 still the business association together. But in November 1892, it res
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