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ARCHITECTURE DOCUMENTATION

HISTORY

The Architecture Documentation Collection is the youngest in the Salzburg Museum. The Salzburg architect Gerhard Garstenauer transferred his entire architecture archive to the museum in 2010, with the idea of collecting and preserving architectural works also of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and, most particularly, documenting building activities in the twentieth century. Thus, the designs, sketches and plans of Gerhard Garstenauer form an important basic stock for the documentation of building in Salzburg in the last century and, together with seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century plans kept at present in the Graphics Collection, provide an overview of more than 400 years of building activities in Salzburg.

COLLECTION RANGE

The holdings encompass the ground plan of the unrealised Scamozzi Cathedral of 1606, Baroque plans by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Lukas von Hildebrandt, which are assigned to the Graphics Collection because of their materiality, then numerous master builder plans from the nineteenth century and important buildings by Salzburg architects of the first half of the twentieth century. The inventory will be augmented with documentation of current building projects.

INVENTORY OVERVIEW

After it became known that a collection of architectural plans was now also set up in the Salzburg Museum, several architectural bequests were transferred to it: among them were those of Josef Wessicken (1837–1918), Wunibald Deininger (1879–1963), Eduard Hütter (1880–1967), Martin Knoll (1888–1937) and Helmut Höpflinger (1922–2010). 

The collection includes hand-drawn sketches and designs, plans of greatly diverse construction phases of individual buildings, plan and construction documentation, invitations to competitions, photos and models.

NEW ACQUISITIONS

The major part of the holdings has landed as bequests in the Salzburg Museum – the artists’ descendants wished to be assured that they were safeguarded and well preserved. In 2014, three sketches for the unrealised festival theatre project in Salzburg-Hellbrunn around 1920 were purchased; they came from the estate of Berlin architect Hans Poelzig, which was auctioned off in its entirety.

TRANSPARENCY AND FUNCTION

The collection is not very well known as yet; however, the first requests for loans are already being submitted relating to twentieth-century Salzburg architecture. Furthermore, objects from this collection department are already being planned for future internal exhibition projects. 

Cooperation discussions are under way with the University of Salzburg for processing and publishing individual architectural bequests in the context of degree and doctoral theses.
   

Image gallery

Model of the Linzertor (gate) in Salzburg with the relief of St. Sebastian by Conrad Asper, Josef Brunetti, 1895, wood, polychrome painting, inv. no. 74-26
Model of the Linzertor (gate) in Salzburg with the relief of St. Sebastian by Conrad Asper, Josef Brunetti, 1895, wood, polychrome painting, inv. no. 74-26
Architecture model of the house of the Salzburg sculptor Josef Magnus in Anif, Josef Magnus, inv. no. 10237-2011
Architecture model of the house of the Salzburg sculptor Josef Magnus in Anif, Josef Magnus, inv. no. 10237-2011
Model for the Felsentherme – thermal baths in the rocks – in Bad Gastein, Gerhard Garstenauer, 1966, wood, plastic, inv. no. 12631-2010
Model for the Felsentherme – thermal baths in the rocks – in Bad Gastein, Gerhard Garstenauer, 1966, wood, plastic, inv. no. 12631-2010
Model of the dwelling-cum-studio of Dr. Garstenauer in Aigen, Gänsbrunn 2, Gerhard Garstenauer, inv. no. AR 002 bo-2010
Model of the dwelling-cum-studio of Dr. Garstenauer in Aigen, Gänsbrunn 2, Gerhard Garstenauer, inv. no. AR 002 bo-2010
Model of the dwelling-cum-studio of Dr. Garstenauer in Aigen, Gänsbrunn 2, detail, window perspective, Gerhard Garstenauer, inv. no. AR 002 cc-2010
Model of the dwelling-cum-studio of Dr. Garstenauer in Aigen, Gänsbrunn 2, detail, window perspective, Gerhard Garstenauer, inv. no. AR 002 cc-2010
Design for the festival theatre project in Salzburg-Hellbrunn: tower-like main building and two façade studies, Hans Poelzig, pencil and charcoal on sketching paper/Pergamin transparent paper, inv. no. AR 003-2014
Design for the festival theatre project in Salzburg-Hellbrunn: tower-like main building and two façade studies, Hans Poelzig, pencil and charcoal on sketching paper/Pergamin transparent paper, inv. no. AR 003-2014
Neuwirth dwelling, Pausingerstrasse in Salzburg, Gerhard Garstenauer, inv. no. AR 004-2010
Neuwirth dwelling, Pausingerstrasse in Salzburg, Gerhard Garstenauer, inv. no. AR 004-2010
Design for a festival theatre project on Bürglstein(?), Martin Knoll, 1914, chalk pastel on transparent paper, inv. no. AR 004-2014
Design for a festival theatre project on Bürglstein(?), Martin Knoll, 1914, chalk pastel on transparent paper, inv. no. AR 004-2014
Kurhaus project (?), Salzburg-Rainerstrasse, Martin Knoll, pencil on transparent paper, inv. no. AR 009 c-2014
Kurhaus project (?), Salzburg-Rainerstrasse, Martin Knoll, pencil on transparent paper, inv. no. AR 009 c-2014
Autohaus O. Schmidt OHG, Salzburg-Alpenstrasse, preliminary sketch: perspective, Gerhard Garstenauer, 1966, inv. no. AR 011 co-2010
Autohaus O. Schmidt OHG, Salzburg-Alpenstrasse, preliminary sketch: perspective, Gerhard Garstenauer, 1966, inv. no. AR 011 co-2010
Design for the new building of the Collegiate Abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, view of the new collegiate courtyard, Eduard Hütter, 1924, inv. no. AR 028 a-2012
Design for the new building of the Collegiate Abbey of St. Peter in Salzburg, view of the new collegiate courtyard, Eduard Hütter, 1924, inv. no. AR 028 a-2012
Design for the reconstruction and prospect of the organ in the parish church of Salzburg-Gnigl, Eduard Hütter, 1959, inv. no. AR 040-2012
Design for the reconstruction and prospect of the organ in the parish church of Salzburg-Gnigl, Eduard Hütter, 1959, inv. no. AR 040-2012
Design for the building of a festival theatre in the former princely archiepiscopal Hofmarstall (stables), ground plan of ground floor, Eduard Hütter, 1924, pen and ink, watercolour on paper, inv. no. AR 057 ah-20122
Design for the building of a festival theatre in the former princely archiepiscopal Hofmarstall (stables), ground plan of ground floor, Eduard Hütter, 1924, pen and ink, watercolour on paper, inv. no. AR 057 ah-2012
Elevation of the garden façade of Mirabell Palace, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, 1722, pen and brown ink, grey wash, on wired paper, inv. no. 13233-49
Elevation of the garden façade of Mirabell Palace, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, 1722, pen and brown ink, grey wash, on wired paper, inv. no. 13233-49
Design for the rear wall of the Pferdeschwemme (horse pond), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, early 18th c., pen and ink, wash, inv. no. 7504-49
Design for the rear wall of the Pferdeschwemme (horse pond), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, early 18th c., pen and ink, wash, inv. no. 7504-49
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