The Journey of the Paintings

The Salzkammergut as a transshipment point and rescue site for works of art

In “The Journey of the Paintings”, the Lentos focuses not only on Hitler’s planned “Führer Museum Linz” and the secret salvage operations, but also on the temporary art camps in St. Agatha, Bad Aussee, Altaussee and Bad Ischl/Lauffen. The exhibition shows a selection of exemplary paintings that were collected for Hitler’s “Führer Museum” and a distribution to museums of the German Reich throughout Europe. They were acquired through purchase, robbery, “Aryanisation” and forced sale and, like Austrian museum collections, stored and saved in the Salzkammergut.

In the Kammerhofmuseum Bad Aussee, the life and work of the Berlin art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt and his Jewish business partner Lilly Christiansen, who lived in Bad Aussee from 1940 onwards, are dealt with.

In Lauffen, the systematic theft of art, a well-known phenomenon since antiquity and a means of legitimising cultural dominance, will be the subject of works and installations by contemporary artists.

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