"Der Hagenbund or K\u00FCnstlerbund Hagen was a group of Austrian artists that formed in 1899.The group's name derived from the name Herr Hagen, the proprietor of an inn in Vienna which they frequented.The group's most prominent members early on were Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban, who had originally worked and exhibited within the conservative Vienna K\u00FCnstlerhaus, but now, like the Vienna Secession, rebelled against the establishment and formed their own organization.The Hagenbund operated for almost a decade in the shadow of the popular and successful Secession, and only in the years that followed the damaging resignation of the Klimt Group from the Secession did its members succeed in developing a more moderate, independent line, in which atmosphere played a major role.After 1918, the formal language of the Hagenbund came to dominate artistic activity in Vienna, and in the 1920s it provided the most important focus for new artistic currents. "@en .