Salzburg artist house

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Salzburg artist house

The Künstlerhaus Salzburg is located on the southern edge of the old town of Salzburg at the Nonntaler Bridge at Hellbrunner Straße 3. The Wilhelminian-style building from 1885 is right next to today's district court.

Building history

The Salzburg Künstlerhaus is the structural home of the Salzburg Art Association . Sigmund Graf Thun-Hohenstein came up with the idea of ​​building an artist's house , even though the financial situation of the art association was no longer the best at this time. In addition to its initiator, the committee for the construction of the artist's house consisted of the Kunstverein's board member, Ritter von Negrelli, the club's treasurer, Ludwig Zeller, and Matthias Gschnitzer, Hyazinth Michel, Josef Mayburger and Franz von Pausinger . The idea of ​​holding a lottery for the construction resulted in half of the construction costs. Archduke Ludwig Victor took over the protectorate of the building . The local architect was Hyazinth Michel (* 1846, Freistadt ; † 1904, Linz ), who was professionally proven through numerous villa buildings and was honored with the Knight's Cross of the Franz Joseph Order for his services to the building . Construction began in 1884 and on August 1, 1885, the artist's house was transferred to the ownership of the Salzburg Art Association.

The exhibition hall on the mezzanine floor designed at the time had a skylight. It was surrounded by artist studios. With this, the idea of ​​creating not only a permanent exhibition space, but also creative spaces for financially disadvantaged artists and providing space for a secretariat in the Salzburg Künstlerhaus, was realized. However, there were also intense disputes because the artists complained about impractical windows, poor heating options in the high rooms and the like.

The flood of 1899 caused severe damage to the Künstlerhaus, which was initially paid for by the Flooded Fund , but in the long run, in addition to the repayment obligations of the construction costs, became a heavy burden for the Kunstverein. This even led the Kunstverein to sell the building several times, but always with no tangible result.

The first comprehensive renovation of the Künstlerhaus was carried out between 1971 and 1974. The ceiling of the natural light exhibition room has been lowered to create six new artist studios. Subsequent renovation work related to securing the subsoil, redesigning the entrance area and expanding the Café Cult 1995–99 ( Elsa Prochazka ). In 2001 the renovation was completed.

The house is a listed building .

Künstlerhaus today

Artist House Salzburg (2014)

The concept of the Künstlerhaus Neu provides that the Künstlerhaus should be the place of production, mediation and presentation of current international and regional art and all related fields in Salzburg. There are also 24 studios in the Künstlerhaus, 20 of which are exclusively given to members of the Salzburg Art Association (usually for three years with one-time extension).

Since 2001 the Salzburg Art Association has merged with other cultural associations to form the Künstlerhaus Neu . Other members are gold extra , the Salzburg Architecture Initiative and the ARTgenossen mediation group . Later, wohnbund: consult , the office for Stadt.Raum. Development (from 2002), ohnetitel (the network for theater and art projects , from 2008) and oenm (the Austrian ensemble for new music , 2011) joined them. This should create synergy effects and meet the public's need for a diverse range of offers. All of these initiatives occupy studio spaces in the Künstlerhaus.

literature

Web links

Commons : Künstlerhaus Salzburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hyacinth Michel . In: kunstforum.de , accessed on May 28, 2014.
  2. ^ Cafe Cult. Elsa Prochazka - Salzburg (A) - 1999 , nextroom.at;
    Cafe Cult , archtour-stadt-salzburg.at

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 48.5 ″  N , 13 ° 3 ′ 17 ″  E