Zinkenbach painters colony

Poster The painting ship from 2011 at the Kulturhaus Sankt Gilgen

The Zinkenbach painters' colony is a loose grouping of Austrian artists of different social origins and attitudes who went on summer vacation in Zinkenbach (today Abersee) on Lake Wolfgang in the interwar period .

The Viennese Ferdinand Kitt was at the center of the group, the meetings began in 1927. The spectrum of political views ranged from the extreme left to the extreme right, "ethnic", monarchist, National Socialist and communist artists, " Aryans " and "non-Aryans" frequented amicably in the "painting ship" Zinkenbach. In the stupid album , a collection of caricatures created jointly by the artists, the relaxed situation of the summer resort is well expressed.

The year 1938, when Austria was annexed to National Socialist Germany, marked a turning point here, as the Jewish members were forced to emigrate ( Lisel Salzer, for example, emigrated to the USA), while others, e.g. Ernst August von Mandelsloh , Gudrun Baudisch-Wittke or Kajetan Mühlmann made a career in the time of National Socialism .

Up to 27 artists were gathered at Lake Wolfgang, but whoever belonged to the actual “colony” was not clear. The following artists are named: Gudrun Baudisch-Wittke , Leo Delitz , Josef Dobrowsky , Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich , Georg Ehrlich , Alfred Gerstenbrand , Ernst Huber , Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel , Ferdinand Kitt , Oskar Laske , Ernst August von Mandelsloh , Georg Merkel , Louise Merkel -Romée , Sergius Pauser , Viktor Pipal , Lisel Salzer , Gertrud Schwarz-Helberger , Lisl Weil , Franz von Zülow . Ernst Toller and Kajetan Mühlmann also belonged to this circle of friends . Presumably John Quincy Adams , who was often in Sankt Gilgen on summer retreat, had contacts with the painters' colony.

Today a museum on the first floor of the Sankt Gilgen cultural center is dedicated to the Zinkenbach painters' colony . The museum association Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie , founded by Christina Steinmetzer in 1996, has organized annual exhibitions since 2001 on the artists of the former painters' colony and their subjects (e.g. landscape painting). The building of the former kuk elementary school from 1894 could be adapted as the event location, which also houses a musical instrument museum, classrooms for the music school and the local history archive.

literature

• Adolf Haslinger, Peter Mittermayr: Salzburger Kultur Lexikon , Residenz Verlag, Salzburg 2001 ISBN 3-7017-1129-1
• Bernhard Barta: The painting ship, Austrian artist circles of the interwar period, Edition Schütz, Vienna 2007 ISBN 978-3-9501052-3-0
• Ruth Kaltenegger (Ed.): Prelude. Postscript to the summer 2001 exhibition. Writings of the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie I Museum Association, St. Gilgen 2001. ISBN 3-9501524-3-1
• Ruth Kaltenegger (Ed.): Home, Strangers and Exile. Document for the summer 2002 exhibition. Writings from the Museum Association of Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie II, St. Gilgen 2002. ISBN 3-902301-00-7
• Georg Steinmetzer (Ed.): Lisel Salzer. Of the last and the first things - pictures before and after 1939. Exhibition catalog summer 2003. Österreichischer Kunst- und Kulturverlag, Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-85437-248-5
• Renate Oberbeck (Ed.): Georg Ehrlich (1897-1966). From the drawing to the bronze - a search for reconciliation turned into shape. Script for the summer 2004 exhibition. Writings from the Museum Association of Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie IV, St. Gilgen 2004. ISBN 3-902301-01-5
• Ruth Kaltenegger (Ed.): Artist life 1945 - 1955. Between burden and hope. Script for the summer 2005 exhibition. Writings from the Museum Association of Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie V, St. Gilgen 2005. ISBN 3-902301-01-5
• Ruth Kaltenegger (Ed.): Artist friendships. The world is a village. Script for the summer 2006 exhibition. Writings from the Museum Association of Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie VII, St. Gilgen 2006. ISBN 3-902301-05-8
• Museum Association Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie (Ed.): Gudrun Baudisch on his 100th birthday. Document for the exhibition summer 2007. St. Gilgen 2007. ISBN 3-902301-07-4
• Leni Zimmerebner (ed.): The ideal landscape. The Wolfgangsee. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Museum Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie, June 28 to. September 30, 2008. Writings of the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie VIII Museum Association, St. Gilgen 2008. ISBN 3-902301-08-2
• Board member of the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie Museum Association (publisher): Ernst August Mandelsloh (1886 - 1962). Summer exhibition 2009. St. Gilgen 2009. ISBN 3-902301-09-0
• Petra Kronberger (Ed.): Alfred Gerstenbrand. A painter and St. Gilgen. Accompanying volume for the exhibition in the Museum Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie, June 26 to September 26, 2010. Writings of the Museum Association Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie II, St. Gilgen 2010. ISBN 3-902301-10-4

Web link

• The Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie Website of the museum with short biographies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The slow development of a museum. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 14, 2012 ; Retrieved March 3, 2013 . 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.