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Gesamtkunstwerk [Ger.: complete, unified or total work of art].
Term first used by RICHARD WAGNER in Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (1849) to describe his concept of a work of art for the stage, based on the ideal of ancient Greek tragedy, to which all the individual arts would contribute under the direction of a single creative mind in order to express one overriding idea. However, the term is applied retrospectively to projects in which several art forms are combined to achieve a unified effect, for example Roman fora, Gothic cathedrals and some Baroque churches and palazzi.
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- Gesamtkunstwerk
- Austria, §V, 2: Interior decoration, 1600–1780
- Gropius, Walter, §2: From Bauhaus to Berlin, 1918–34
- Installation
- Klenze, Leo von, §1(ii): Mature work, 1816–64
- Music and art, §3: 19th century
- Secession, §3: Vienna
- Wagner, Richard
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