Founded in 1892, the Munich Secession served as a model for the Vienna Secession. Franz von Stuck designed the poster for the first Munich Secession exhibition in 1893 (please see image below), rendering the composition as though it were a golden mosaic: the helmeted head of Pallas Athena and the lettering below appear to be set in stone tesserae. Although Athena was familiar to residents of Munich (a city known since the early 19th century as the “Athens on the Isar”), Stuck’s bold poster transformed the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, and the arts into a symbol of the Secession. In fact, variants of this image were used on posters for the Munich Secession for many years. This particular poster advertised an exhibition at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld (in Northwestern Germany) held in 1905.