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- Thirtieth exhibition of the Secession in honour of Franz Josef’s
60 years as Emperor.
- Kunstshau exhibition organised by circle of artists around
Gustav Klimt.
- Karl Kraus published essay collection Morality and Criminality.
- Architect Adolf Loos publishes Ornament and Crime.
- Artist Richard Gerstl commits suicide.
- The Psychological Wednesday Evening Society that meets in Sigmund
Freud’s flat and consulting room is renamed the Vienna Psycho-Analytical
Society.
- Otto Wager chairs the eighth International Congress of Architects
in Vienna.
- Arnold Schoenberg’s Second String Quartet opus 10 verges
on atonality. The premiere culminates in near riot.
- Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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- Foundation of Neukunstgruppe (New Art Group) by Egon Schiele
and others.
- Performance of Kokoschka’s Expressionist dramas Sphinx and
Man of Straw and Murderer, Hope of Women.
- Scheonberg completes the monodrama, Expectation and Five
Orchestral Pieces, his first fully atonal works.
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- Death of Karl Lueger, co-founder of the Christian Social Party and
Mayor of Vienna.
- Der Sturm, weekly Expressionist journal that frequently includes drawings
by Kokoschka, founded in Berlin by Herwarth Walden.
- Loos’s Steiner House built in Vienna.
- Poet Peter Altenberg begins treatment for chronic alcoholism and psychological
problems.
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- Public uproar over façade of Loos’s house on Michaelerplatz.
- Kraus becomes sole writer and editor of his literary and political
review Die Fackel.
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- Schiele arrested and imprisoned for 24 days for the ‘display
of an erotic drawing in room open to children’.
- Kokoschka begins affair with Alma Mahler.
- First performance of Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde
is banned in Budapest.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein begins to study philosophy at Cambridge University.
Starts work on what will become Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
- Altenberg compiles Semmering 1912. He creates an album of 259
cards and photographs with the same title.
- War declared in the Balkans.
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- Freud publishes Totem and Taboo.
- First performance of Alban Berg’s Altenberg Lieder, conducted
by Schoenberg, provokes a riot.
- Balkan peace treaty signed.
- Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy consolidate ‘Triple Alliance’.
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- Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo.
- Austria declares war against Serbia, precipitating outbreak of the
First World War.
- Wittgenstein donates 100,000 kronen to needy Austrian artists. Joins
army as a volunteer gunner.
- Kraus publishes anti-war essay ‘In This Great Time’.
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- Kokoschka joins dragoons. On leave he paints portrait of Ludwig von
Ficker. Is later wounded on the Eastern Front.
- Schiele marries Edith Harms. Three days later he begins military service.
- Josef Hoffmann designs the Skywa-Primavesi Villa.
- Otto Primavesi becomes manager of the Wiener Werkstätte and Dagobert
Peche joins it as a designer.
- Kraus begins The Last Days of Mankind.
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- Freud’s ‘Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis’
at the University of Vienna.
- Emperor Franz Josef dies. Succeeded by grandnephew, Archduke Karl.
- Kraus lectures against the War. Die Fackel regularly confiscated
by the censors.
- Kokoschka sent to Italian Front and makes several drawings before
being wounded again.
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- Wittgenstein receives several citations after Kerensky offensive on
the Eastern Front.
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- Death of Wagner and Klimt. Schiele dies in Spanish Flu epidemic.
- Wittgenstein transferred to Italian Front. Completes Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus.
- 26 October, Hungarian Parliament votes to secede from Austria.
- 28 October, Proclamation of Independent Czechoslovakia.
- 11 November, Emperor Karl abdicates role in Government.
- 12 November, Declaration of the Republic of German-Austria by Provisional
National Assembly.
- Kraus’s The Last Days of Mankind published in instalments.
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