The Salon de la Sécession was an Avant-gardist art exhibition which was held in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

 each year from 1927 to 1930. It was the main event of the Luxembourg Secession movement which had been founded in 1926 by a number of artists including Claus Cito

Claus Cito

Nicolas Joseph 'Claus' Cito was a Luxembourgian sculptor. He is most notable for having created the original Gëlle Fra war memorial.Cito trained at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels...

, Nico Klopp

Nico Klopp

Nico Klopp was a Luxembourg painter remembered above all for his post-impressionist paintings of scenes on the River Moselle where he lived.-Early life:...

, Joseph Kutter

Joseph Kutter

Joseph Jean Ferdinand Kutter is considered one of Luxembourg's most important painters. He was greatly influenced by the Impressionists but developed his own distinctive Expressionist style.-Early life:...

 and Auguste Trémont

Auguste Trémont

Auguste Nicolas Trémont was a Luxembourgian sculptor. He specialised in sculptures of animals, with a particular emphasis on big cats.-Life:...

 who were unhappy with the academic approach of the Cercle artistique de Luxembourg

Cercle artistique de Luxembourg

The Cercle artistique de Luxembourg or CAL, founded in 1893 as Cercle artistique luxembourgeois, is an association which brings together artists of all types with a view to supporting artistic work and art education in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg....

 and its support of Impressionism. Hoping to develop interest in Fauvism

Fauvism

Fauvism is the style of les Fauves , a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism...

 and Expressionism

Expressionism

Expressionism was a modernist movement, initially in poetry and painting, originating in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect in order to evoke moods or ideas...

, they had been inspired by similar but substantially earlier secessionist movements in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 (1892), Vienna

Vienna

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 (1896) and Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 (1897). The Luxembourg movement folded in 1930 following the reconciliation of the Secession movement and the Cercle artistique.

The Salon's first exhibition was held in Luxembourg's city hall in 1927. The participating artists were Claus Cito, Nico Klopp, Joseph Kutter, Jemp Michels, Harry Rabinger

Harry Rabinger

Harry Rabinger was a Luxembourg artist who is remembered for his portraits and Expressionist landscape paintings, especially those of the industrial area in the south of the country.-Biography:...

, Jean Schaak, Jos Sünnen, Jean-Joseph Thiry and Auguste Trémont.