Innsbruck giant circular painting

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The rotunda, location of the giant circular painting from after 1906 to 2010

The giant circular painting , shown for the first time in 1896, is a panorama representation of the Battle of Bergisel (1809) and can be viewed since 2011 in the Tirol Panorama am Bergisel in the south of Innsbruck after the last move since 2011 .

General

Michael Zeno Diemer (1867–1939) was commissioned to produce the giant circular painting . His work was supported by Franz von Defregger (1835–1921), Franz Burger (1857–1940), W. Flaucher, Anton Niedermaier and A. Pätzold. The giant circular painting is one of 28 still existing panoramas from before the Second World War. It is one of the most visited sights in Innsbruck. Until it was relocated in 2010, it was one of the last almost unchanged panoramas in its original rotunda worldwide, along with three other panoramas (Mesdag, Waterloo and Altötting).

The events of the third Battle of Bergisel on August 13, 1809 are depicted in the giant panorama on more than 1000 square meters : 15,000 Bavarian , Saxon and French soldiers under the leadership of the French Marshal Lefèbvre faced an equally large Tyrolean rifle contingent under Andreas Hofer .

history

The Tyrolean writer Josef Calasanz Platter (1858–1905) had the creative idea for the giant panorama. The circular painting was opened in 1896 and was enthusiastically celebrated by the public. It was located in a specially built building between Claudia- and Ing.-Etzel-Straße in the Saggen district.

In 1906 the giant circular painting was brought to London and presented there in the Imperial Austrian Exhibition . During this time the building of the painting in Innsbruck burned down. Therefore, when the picture returned from London, a new house, a rotunda , was built right next to the Chain Bridge , near the later-built valley station of the former Hungerburgbahn ( 47 ° 16 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 12.5 ″  E ) , erected, and exhibited the picture there.

During the First World War it was transferred to Vienna for propaganda purposes , during the Second World War the owners refused to send the panorama in an air raid, although the building on Rennweg was next to the strategic goal of the Chain Bridge over the Inn . The giant circular painting survived the war unscathed.

The panorama painting was to be moved to the “Haus am Bergisel ” in autumn 2008 . In addition to strategic tourism reasons, structural and conservation reasons were also given. A citizens' initiative tried to prevent this by means of a petition and to maintain the unity of the painting and building. In addition, various national and international specialist and monument preservation organizations, such as the International Panorama Council IPC , ICOMOS , Europa Nostra , TICCIH Austria and many others spoke out against a relocation.

A representative survey carried out by the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) among 500 Tyroleans on the new house on Bergisel in November 2010 on behalf of the Tyrolean State Museums came to the conclusion that the majority of the population was or is positive about the relocation of the giant circular painting. 62.8 percent were of the opinion that the painting in the Tirol Panorama is now in the right place. However, this survey was criticized as dubious and tendentious because of the timing and the elaboration of the questions by the operating company Tiroler Landesmuseen.

At the beginning of November 2008 the Federal Monuments Office refused to give its consent to such a move. The state of Tyrol has appealed against this decision. The decision in the second instance was made by the Federal Minister for Education, Art and Culture. On January 11, 2009, the Federal Minister for Education, Art and Culture Claudia Schmied (SP) decided to approve the relocation of the giant circular painting from Rennweg in Innsbruck to a new exhibition building on the Bergisel. On the other hand, petitions were started by the Greens and the association for our panorama , but they were unsuccessful.

On September 11, 2010, the giant circular painting was moved to its new location, the Tirol Panorama on Bergisel. To move the giant circular painting, it had to be opened at one seam and the upper and lower tensioning edges relined, then it was rolled up onto two 12 m high rolls with the layer of paint facing outwards. Using a crane, the giant circular painting was placed at its new destination through an opening in the roof of the new Tyrol Panorama. 6,000 visitors came to the opening of the Tirol Panorama on March 12, 2011. The initial balance for the Tirol Panorama and the relocation was positive: 100,000 visitors were recorded in the first five months. Since then, the number of visitors has declined, in 2018 it was just over 71,000.

literature

  • Panorama of the battle at Berg Isel near Innsbruck on August 13, 1809. Colossal circular painting by Michael Zeno Diemer . Wagner, Innsbruck 1895.
  • Michael Zeno Diemer : The battle at the mountains Isel August 13th 1809. Circular painting by M. Zeno Diemer . Franz Hanfstängl Leporello Album, Munich 1896.
  • Gedeon Maretich von Riv-Alpon, Michael Zeno Diemer (Ill.): Panorama of the battle on Isel mountain near Innsbruck on August 13, 1809. Colossal circular painting by Michael Zeno Diemer . Lamp, Innsbruck 1911.
  • Kerstin Pfeiffer: Franz Burger. Life and work. Excursus on the Innsbruck circular painting “The Battle of the Isel Mountain, 13 Aug. 1809” . Dissertation . University of Innsbruck , Innsbruck 1987.
  • Susanne Gurschler: Panorama of the “Battle of Bergisel” - the story of the giant circular painting in Innsbruck . Studies Verlag, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-7065-5042-0 .
  • Isabelle Brandauer u. a .: The Tirol Panorama, all about the myth of Tirol. Edition Alpina, Innsbruck 2011, ISBN 978-3-900122-05-8 .
  • Nicolette Baumeister (ed.), Bettina Schlorhaufer (text), Markus Bstieler (photo), Sharon Heidenreich (transl.): Das Tirol-Panorama am Bergisel, Innsbruck . Verlag Büro Wilhelm, Amberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-943242-05-8 .
  • Michael Huter (Hrsg.), Wolfgang Meighörner (Hrsg.): Das Tirol-Panorama. One country - views and perspectives. The Bergisel and the Kaiserjägermuseum . Haymon-Verlag, Innsbruck / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85218-758-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The panorama of the Berg-Isel battle in Innsbruck. In:  Der Alpenfreund. Illustrated tourist magazine for the Alpine region , issue 15/1896, (VI. Year), pp. 168–170. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / daf
  2. ^ Franz Caramelle : The Innsbruck giant circular painting. The Tyrolean struggle for freedom on 1000 m² canvas . In: riesenrundgemaelde.at , accessed on March 18, 2011.
  3. ^ Imperial-Royal Austrian exhibition 1906 . Gale & Polden, London 1906.
  4. ↑ The giant panorama painting “The Battle of Bergisel” can be moved to the Bergisel under strict conditions. Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture , January 12, 2009, archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; Retrieved August 29, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Georg Willi, Christine Baur and Gebi Mair hand over signatures against the Bergisel Museum. - May 8, 2009
  6. ^ Giant circular painting: Chronology of the move - March 11, 2011, DiePresse.com
  7. ^ Innsbruck giant circular painting remains in rotunda , September 15, 2008, derstandard.at
  8. ↑ Horst Christoph: Unround painting . In: profil , Volume 42, No. 10, March 7, 2011, pp. 106-107. - Full text (PDF; 764 kB) . In: listefritz.at , accessed on March 21, 2011.
  9. ↑ Tyrolean daily newspaper from November 12, 2008
  10. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung from January 12, 2009.
  11. ↑ "May not mean must / Bergiselmuseum - Plan B" (offline) ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bergiselmuseum.info
  12. ↑ (Offline) ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.innsbruck-panorama.eu
  13. ↑ ekoeekoe: 100,000 visitors to the Tirol Panorama on YouTube . August 22, 2011. Retrieved August 29, 2013.
  14. ↑ '' Tiroler Landesmuseen recorded around 309,000 visitors in 2018 '' Tiroler Landeszeitung from January 15, 2019, accessed on August 15, 2019
  15. ↑ '' WHAT SHOULD YOU BECOME? '' 6020 City Magazine, March 2017, accessed on August 15, 2019

Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 1 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 6 ″  E