1892 Munich Secession
Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth and Peter Behrens were at the head of the Munich Secession, founded in 1892; in 1893 Max Liebermann initiated the " Association of XI", out of which, together with the "Freie Künstlervereinigung" ("Free Association of Artists"), the Berlin Secession developed in 1898.

It is thanks to them that German Impressionism won through against the art policy of the Wilhelminian imperial family.

These two movements also helped the breakthrough of a new humanistic bourgeois and modern art style. In 1910 the younger Expressionists split off as the New Functionalism.

Until its prohibition in 1933 the association divided into the Berlin Secession and the "Free Secession" (1914).

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