A mountain tour where you can see the Watzmann, Untersberg and the Großglockner in just over an hour, visit Bad Gastein as well as Zell am See, sign in the summit book and not only don’t have to climb any meters in altitude, but also stay cool? This is possible in the Domquartier Salzburg. The special exhibition “Stadt – Land – Berg” shows “Salzburg and its surroundings” from Saturday with old views and new ideas.
For this presentation of around half of the collection holdings, the museum’s pedagogy has really come up with a number of regional views. You can borrow a backpack to wander through the exhibition with. It contains its own exhibition hiking map as well as historical maps, a photo book that compares the views of historical paintings with today’s perspectives, or a document for city-country games. “It’s a really great story, with which you can pick up a lot of young people, but certainly also older people – the homo ludens is in each of us,” said regional councilor Daniela Gutschi (ÖVP) at today’s press tour.
In between, you can immortalize yourself in the summit book, which lists 424 meters above sea level and July 29, 2022 as the date of the first ascent, and at the end you not only get the opportunity in the terrace salon to see the picture (covered with washable foil) “Der Rudolfskai in Salzburg” by Friedrich Loos from 1835 with his own ideas, but rather to record the pros and cons of controversial topics such as tourism, energy, transport and spatial planning. “The many posters that will hopefully be created will be exhibited and stimulate discussion,” hoped Gutschi.
But even the curators Astrid Ducke and Thomas Habersatter are not satisfied with a skilful selection and geographically structured presentation of the works, including paintings by Rudolf von Alt, Hubert Sattler and Emil Jakob Schindler and Thomas Ender’s well-known view of the Pasterzen from 1830 contain, which can be used to drastically demonstrate global warming. They have placed two additional markers in the exhibition landscape: on the one hand, facsimiles of historical postcards from the Wolfgang Tauderer collection are included, on the other hand, the Salzburg artist Wolfgang Richter, born in 1953, who has been dealing with the city and its surroundings in a wide variety of ways for more than 40 years, a modern counterpoint to the historical views.
For example, his six-part work “GlanZEITreise 2021” can be seen, for which Richter collected rock and soil samples along the ten-kilometer-long Glanbach and arranged them in showcases. “A lot of things in my artistic work develop while walking,” said Richter. He modeled his “Cloudmountain” (2016), which is hanging from the ceiling out of plastic foil, on the relief of the Unterberg – an airy work that is always slightly in motion, combining a sea of clouds and a sea of stone.
“City – Country – Mountain” also allows the historical development of the city and tourism to be understood. Those who want to see further highlights of the Residenzgalerie collection can look forward to works by Rembrandt and Rubens, Waldmüller and Amerling, among others, in three small adjoining exhibition rooms. And then you also know what Habersatter means when he moans: “Our premises are much too small.”
(SERVICE – “City • Country • Mountain: Salzburg and its surroundings”, exhibition in the Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Domquartier Salzburg, Residenzplatz 1, July 30, 2022 to May 29, 2023. Catalog in German and English, 168 pages, ISBN 978-3- 901443-53-4, 14.90 euros, https://www.domquartier.at)
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