Late in the 19th century and especially in the early 20th century a new movement called Art Nouveau was founded in all major cities in Europe. Derived from the Latin word secessio, meaning separation, the movement in which the younger artists wanted to divest themselves from the older generations. Some of the precursors of Art Nouveau are Paul Gauguin who had developed a style with a predominance of wavy lines; even the flamboyance of Vincent van Gogh, symbolists such as Moreau,

some Nabis and other artists better known for their finely tuned fantastic and expressionist components (e.g. Edvard Munch) can be rightly described as a precursor of Art Nouveau, for strange, eerie atmosphere and highly ornamental style of their work patterns.

The Beuron artists had influenced many Art Nouveau proponents, namely Alphonse Mucha. Even more complex and sophisticated artistic concepts influenced by the Beuron artists showed up in 1902 at the Vienna Secession exhibition in the work of leading 'secessionist' Gustav Klimt, a frieze of angels on the Beethoven statue was strikingly reminiscent of the Beuron angels of 1874.

Like the secessionists,Lenz wanted his new, open, experimental attitude to face up to the classical realistic tradition and official academicism. They wanted to communicate with contemporary artists from other parts of Europe offering them places alongside its members.

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