Works on paper provided the ideal vehicle for Vienna Secession artists to share and disseminate their avant-garde ideas and goals. Besides designing posters, catalogues, and postcards for their exhibitions, they also published the journal "Ver Sacrum (Sacred Spring)" between 1898 and 1903. The beautiful design, illustrations, and layout of this square-formatted journal enabled these artists to experiment with a variety of subjects and graphic styles. As declared in the first issue, "Sacred Spring" offered these artists the opportunity to “disseminate their artistic endeavors to a wider public...To arouse, sharpen and spread artistic feeling of our time.” The earlier issues featured more in the way of articles, reviews, poetry, and music, whereas the later issues tended to be more image-based. Gustav Klimt and Kolomon Moser created these two compositions as part of a series of 12 calendar designs. Moser’s dreamy image shows the Rhinemaiden (or water nymph) Woglinde, famous from Richard Wagner’s 19th-century opera cycle "The Ring". The caricatures of fellow artists, on the other hand, underscore the humor and camaraderie among members of the Vienna Secession.