Exhibition: Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie – Insights into Private Collections

Nestled in St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee, the Museum Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie is a small but captivating museum dedicated to the life and work of the artists who spent their summer retreats at the Adambauer farm in Zinkenbach during the interwar period. For over 25 years, the museum has presented annual exhibitions featuring works from its own collection alongside high-calibre loans from museums and private holdings.

This year's exhibition turns the spotlight on private collectors and their motivations for collecting art. Discover extraordinary private collections, hidden estates, and masterworks of Austrian interwar art that have never been shown to the public before. The exhibition reveals what collecting means to collectors – their passion, emotions, and personal connection to art.

Look forward to numerous previously unpublished landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and graphic works by Josef Dobrowsky, Georg Ehrlich, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Ferdinand Kitt, Oskar Laske, Georg Merkel, Sergius Pauser, Lisel Salzer, Gertrude Schwarz-Helberger, Franz von Zülow, and many others.

A comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition, offering in-depth insights into the featured works and their backgrounds.

Curators: MMag. Claudia Baumann, Mag. Robert Schmiedlehner