For the first time, the Salzburg Museum is presenting a comprehensive retrospective at the Kunsthalle of the oeuvre from 1945 until today of the native Salzburg artist Herwig Schubert. The exhibition encompasses a wide range of works including landscapes, travel sketches and book illustrations for classics of adventure literature, also his monumental egg tempera paintings. By constant over-painting, surfaces are produced that are grainy and crusted; bubbles and bumps appear – which Schubert calls “crumbles” –, which he then occasionally hews off with an axe. Sometimes dozens of “growth rings” can be counted in crosssection, as in dendrochronology.

Although Schubert for a time tended towards “abstract expressionism” and gestural painting, he has always seen himself as a representational artist. His landscapes distance themselves from a concrete impression to a universal “experience report”. His approach to nature seeks an existential challenge, the sea being Schubert’s particular passion. His figures appear alone and of elemental stature as figures of mythical dimensions, conjuring up elementary forces.

Herwig Schubert is a freelance artist, who taught many years at the Academy of Art in Istanbul and Stuttgart. Now 85 years of age, he still works every day in his studio in Allgäu. 

Salzburg Museum | Neue Residenz | Mozartplatz 1 | Kunsthalle

18 November 2011 - 17 June 2012

Curator: Dr. Nikolaus Schaffer

The Salzburg Museum is presenting a special show starring the Trapp Family at the Panorama Museum. The exhibition compares the story of the Trapp Family with the media versions. Objects owned by the family, photos from private albums and loans from collectors and museums document their “real” life. Exhibition stations devoted to the German films (1956 and 1958), the musical (1959) and the Hollywood film version (1965) show what was made out of the story. The exhibition includes a total of more than 180 interactive photos and 100 original objects, some of which have never been shown to the public.
 

Georg an Maria Augusta von Trapp
Georg Ritter von Trapp (1880–1947) was born into the era of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy. He was promoted as an officer in the Imperial and Royal Navy and highly decorated for his achievements. In 1922 his first wife Agathe Whitehead died. Georg von Trapp moved to Salzburg with his seven children.
Maria Augusta Kutschera (1905–1987) arrived in his house as a governess. A short time later Georg von Trapp married “Gustl” Kutschera. Three more children followed. His second wife’s practical common sense and stringent organisational talent shaped the life of the family. In the 1930s, the family lost practically all of its capital assets. The soprano Lotte Lehmann recognised the talents of the family choir and encouraged them to enter the folk-singing competition organised as part of the Salzburg Festival programme. House chaplain Franz Wasner became their artistic and creative conductor, manager, chorus master and also composer.
 

Emigration to the USA and Later Years
The rejection of the Nazi ideology eventually led to the family’s emigration to the USA. Numerous concert tours brought money into the family coffers once more. The Trapp Family found a new homeland in Vermont and organised music camps; the family still runs the Trapp Family Lodge as a hotel today. The family story provided material for the film screenplays and the musical “The Sound of Music”.

Panorama Museum | Residenzplatz 9

4 November 2011 - 3 November 2012

The butcher trade became established very early on in all towns and cities. According to oral tradition, Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach distinguished the Salzburg butchers’ guild in 1512 for their outstanding loyalty and devotion, and awarded them the “Fahnenrecht”, the right to bear their own flag and enjoy the privileges that came with it.

The Salzburg butchers have endeavoured for many centuries to supply the population with first-class meat and sausage products of the best quality.

Despite today’s trend towards recession in the butcher trade, the role of the butcher cannot be estimated highly enough as a quality producer, local supplier, regional employer and instructor, also as a partner in the regional farming industry.

The exhibition’s specific aim is to focus the interest of the public on this traditional trade and the difficulties surrounding its survival. It approaches the theme not from the usual, everyday point of view, but places the butcher in a context, with works from the visual arts, with the history of the guild and tradition, and also spotlights the modern image of the trade, which has undergone a radical transformation.

Folk Art Museum | Monatsschlössl Hellbrunn

5 May - 31 October 2012