In art history, Secession refers to an historic break between a group of avant-garde artists and the conservative European standard-bearers of academic and official art in the late 19th and early 20th century. The use of the term "secession" to describe young pioneers artistically migrating from the "old country" to create a new one was almost certainly inspired by the history of annexation, secession and dissolution in the city-states of Central Europe. Credited to Georg Hirth (1841–1916), the editor and publisher of the influential German art magazine Jugend (Youth), which inspired the Jugendstil, he used the term "secession" to emphasize the painful rejection of legacy art and the fits and starts of a splinter group forging a new "school" of art.