Sattler panorama

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Sattler Panorama (Johann Michael Sattler)
Sattler panorama
Johann Michael Sattler , 1825–1829
Oil on canvas
486 × 2553 cm
Salzburg Museum

The Sattler Panorama is an oil painting 25.53 meters long and 4.86 meters high by the painter Johann Michael Sattler . It shows the panorama of the city of Salzburg and its surroundings in 1825, seen from the Hohensalzburg Fortress . It is of inestimable value as a topographical document and is one of the most valuable objects in the Salzburg Museum's collections and is exhibited in the Panorama Museum Salzburg .

Panorama painting started with a small circular painting of Edinburgh that Irishman Robert Baker had painted and even applied for a patent for this new art form. Soon afterwards numerous other round pictures with city views, mountain landscapes or martial battle scenes were created in Europe. Many of these panoramas went on trips, were exhibited in different cities and enjoyed a large audience. The “Sattler Panorama” is the only remaining travel panorama in the world. The oldest panorama picture ever is the Thun Panorama , created by the Swiss artist Marquard Wocher from 1809 to 1814 , which was initially exhibited in Basel for decades and is now presented in a rotunda in the Schadaupark in Thun .

Sattler began working on his circular painting in 1825 at the suggestion of the then Emperor Franz I , who wanted to see Salzburg "with its romantic surroundings as a panorama" , initially with the preliminary drawings on the Hohensalzburg Fortress. He then transferred these drawings to the approximately 125 m² canvas using oil paint. He attached great importance to the accuracy of the architecture, every window axis and every chimney had to be right, no ditch roof and no sundial could be missing. The painters Friedrich Loos (landscape) and Johann Joseph Schindler (figural staffage) collaborated .

Detail: the city of Salzburg

After the completion of the work in April 1829, Sattler set up the panorama for a few weeks on Hannibalplatz (today Makartplatz) in Salzburg, was made the first honorary citizen of the city of Salzburg and then, accompanied by his wife and two children, began a ten-year-old with the panorama Exhibition tour through Europe and showed it in numerous cities, including Munich, Linz, Vienna, Brno / Brno, Prague, Dresden, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Groningen, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Brussels, Paris , Portsmouth, Cologne, Frankfurt, Strasbourg / Strasbourg and Nuremberg. He made a significant contribution to the awareness of the city of Salzburg and was probably the first Salzburg tourism advertiser.

The panorama came into the possession of the city of Salzburg in 1870 when Sattler's son Hubert , also a well-known landscape painter and creator of cosmoramas , gave it to the city together with them.

Detail: view to the south

In 1875 the round panorama was exhibited in a specially built pavilion in the spa garden of the city of Salzburg. In the sub-area of ​​the pavilion, 26 of 119 cosmoramas were exhibited, these are true-to-life oil paintings by Hubert Sattler with views of the city, landscape or buildings from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and North and Central America. In 1937 the building was demolished because it was in disrepair and the circular painting was moved to the Carolino Augusteum Museum . After it was destroyed by American aerial bombs in World War II, it was rescued from the bomb debris and was temporarily deposited and, after restoration in 1977, was exhibited in the lobby of Café Winkler am Mönchsberg with free access. It had to be removed from there in 2001 because the building was demolished.

On May 27, 2003, the painting was moved to the newly constructed building in the second courtyard of the New Residence in the place of the former counter hall of the Post Office 5010 . There, all previous overpaintings were accepted and a fundamental restoration was carried out, which could only be financed by donations. It has been open to the public again since October 26, 2005. Around the panorama, 12 or 24 cosmoramas are exhibited in a thematic compilation in the museum in an annually changing sequence.

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