Brunico City Museum
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| place | Bruder Willram Strasse, Bruneck 
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| opening | 1995 |
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Brunico Museum Association
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The Bruneck City Museum is an art museum in the South Tyrolean city at Bruder-Willram-Strasse 1 in the Ausserragen district. Although a local museum in Bruneck had already been founded in 1912 , it was not until 1995 that Bruneck received its own museum, as the previous institution had been closed during the fascist era .
history
The initiative to found the museum association came from Bruneck's local history researcher Paul Tschurtschenthaler . The foundation of the museum was the estate of the Bruneck chronicler Johann Nepomuk Tinkhauser from 1844, acquired by the city administration in 1911. This consisted of Gothic paintings and reliefs of sacred classicist goldsmith's work, folkloric objects, weapons, coins, books and documents. Until the First World War , these holdings could be displayed in the former town hall.
After the most valuable objects were temporarily brought to safety in Salzburg during the war , they were returned at the end of the war and the museum association resumed its activities. In 1923 the exhibition had to be ended; the objects were packed and temporarily stored in the town hall. In 1940 they were handed over to the Bolzano City Museum, but again only stored there in the cellar.
It was not until 1981 that they became aware of them again and in 1983 they were returned to Bruneck. The objects, which were in a poor state of preservation, came to the Dietenheim Folklore Museum . There was no longer enough stock to equip a local and city museum with it. Therefore, in 1990 an agreement was reached to leave the folklore inventory to the South Tyrolean State Museum in Dietenheim on permanent loan. At the same time, the Brunico Museum Association was revived and efforts were made to found a new museum. In 1995 the Bruneck Museum Association opened the city museum. For this purpose, the former post stables, which are located behind Kapuzinerplatz on the way to the Rienztor and the old town, have been adapted.
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The museum's holdings consist, on the one hand, of the historical Tinkhauser collection and, on the other hand, of the modern art collection that has started since the museum was founded.
One of the museum's most valuable exhibits is a keystone with a bust of an angel from the Church of Issing by Michael Pacher (around 1459). Other sacral late Gothic works of art from the Pustertal are the Sonnenburg Altar by Simon and Veit von Taisten (around 1490), a painting of St. Catherine of Alexandria by Friedrich Pacher (2nd half of the 15th century), the Apostles Peter and Andreas and St. Sebastian and Florian the Master of Uttenheim (around 1470), an Annunciation and a Madonna by Simon von Taisten (around 1500), a Saint Martin of the Master of the Kematner keystones (around 1450-1470), Saints Agnes and Margarethe by an unknown master (around 1496) and the wooden sculpture of a Pietà as well as the relief of Christ leaving his mother, Michael Parth (around 1520). All of these works of art can be seen in a permanent exhibition.
The museum also has works of art from the Baroque period by Paul Troger and Carl Henrici, as well as portraits and landscapes from the 17th to 19th centuries. Several woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer are also in the inventory. Also worth mentioning are a small prehistoric bronze figure and the Sonnenburger Calendarium , a medical and astrological collection of writings from the period from 1439 to 1746.
The collection of modern art concentrates on Tyrolean artists of the 19th – 21st centuries. Century and on the graphic . These include landscape pictures by the brothers Gottfried and Ignaz Seelos as well as a hallway view of Josef Moroder-Lusenberg . Works of classical modernism are by Emil Nolde ( Ada Nolde , etching , 1906), Ernst Barlach ( cross and coffin robber , woodcut, 1919), Werner Berg ( Requiescat , woodcut), Alexander Kanoldt ( geranium , lithograph , 1922) and Fortunato Depero and stand alongside those of regional artists (the brothers Albert , Ignaz and Rudolf Stolz , Alexander Koester , Carl Moser , Leo Putz , Hans Weber-Tyrol and Eduard Thöny ). Paul Flora and Markus Vallazza are represented from the time after 1945 . Modern art is shown in changing exhibitions.
Important parts of the holdings are also an ex-libris collection comprising around 12,000 objects and a collection of photographs that offer a cross-section of the photographic history of the 20th century.