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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, Sep­tem­ber 20, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

 

JOHANN JULIAN TAUPE 

New works

Chris­tine Wet­zlinger-Grund­nig will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Johann Julian Taupe was born in 1954 in Gritschach near Vil­lach, stud­ied from 1976 to 1981 at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na under Prof. Max Weil­er and was a lec­tur­er under Prof. Arnulf Rain­er at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na from 1981 to 1983. Taupe is con­stant­ly dis­cov­er­ing new pic­to­r­i­al forms in his indi­vid­ual worlds of col­or. For the artist, paint­ing is an expres­sion of his expe­ri­ences and impres­sions. It is an unin­ten­tion­al let­ting hap­pen, a sur­ren­der­ing and fol­low­ing an inner log­ic and neces­si­ty. The exhi­bi­tion shows works on can­vas by the artist from the years 2023 to 2025. 

 

On the 1st floor

JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS

Shin Hanga

The pub­lish­er Watan­abe Shoz­aburo (1885–1962) found­ed the art move­ment Shin Hanga (new graph­ic art/printing) in 1915. Designs by liv­ing artists were real­ized by wood engravers and print­ers using the tra­di­tion­al pro­duc­tion method of ukiyo‑e. The artists adopt­ed the imagery of ukiyo‑e, beau­ti­ful women, actors, flow­ers, birds and land­scapes and used ideas from West­ern paint­ing, such as per­spec­tive and shad­ing, to cre­ate their images. The great earth­quake in Japan on Sep­tem­ber 1, 1923 destroyed Watan­abe’s store and his print­ing blocks. Ear­ly Shin hanga prints are there­fore rare and par­tic­u­lar­ly valuable. 

 

EXHIBITION DURATION: 20. Sep­tem­ber — Octo­ber 22, 2025

 

 

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, July 19, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

GRUPPE ST. STEPHAN 

HOLLEGHA — MIKL — PRACHENSKY — RAINER 

Flo­ri­an Steininger will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Galerie Welz is ded­i­cat­ing its fes­ti­val exhi­bi­tion to the artists of the “St. Stephan Painters’ Group”. The ear­ly works of Wolf­gang Hol­legha, Josef Mikl, Markus Prachen­sky and Arnulf Rain­er rep­re­sent the Aus­tri­an avant-garde of the post-war peri­od. The “Galerie St. Stephan” in Vien­na, found­ed by Otto Mauer in 1954, pre­sent­ed works by Aus­tri­an artists to the pub­lic, quick­ly became the lead­ing insti­tu­tion in the Vien­nese art scene and became the cen­ter of infor­mal paint­ing. Hol­legha, Mikl, Prachen­sky and Rain­er made a deci­sive con­tri­bu­tion to the devel­op­ment of art in Aus­tria and are now con­sid­ered part of Aus­tri­an clas­si­cal mod­ernism. The exhi­bi­tion shows works on paper and can­vas by the artists. 

 

On the 1st floor

CLASSIC MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART

Par­al­lel to the exhi­bi­tion on the ground floor, works of clas­si­cal mod­ernism, includ­ing those by Lyonel Feininger, Gus­tav Klimt, Alfred Kubin, Joan Miró and Egon Schiele, as well as works of Aus­tri­an con­tem­po­rary art, includ­ing those by Eduard Angeli, Joan­nis Avramidis, Joan­na Gle­ich, Got­tfried Salz­mann and Julian Taupe, will be pre­sent­ed on the first floor of the gallery.

 

EXHIBITION DURATION: 19. July — Sep­tem­ber 6, 2025

 

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, June 7, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

 

RUDOLF HRADIL

On Birth­day

GUEST PERFORMANCE SALZBURG MUSEUM

Kat­ja Mit­ten­dor­fer-Oppolz­er and Cay Buben­dor­fer will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Rudolf Hradil (1925–2007) is one of the most impor­tant Salzburg artists of the 20th century.

In 2023, the Salzburg Muse­um received numer­ous oil paint­ings from his estate, which are a won­der­ful addi­tion to the many graph­ic works from pre­vi­ous pur­chas­es and dona­tions by the artist. In hon­or of the 100th anniver­sary. On the occa­sion of Rudolf Hradil’s 50th birth­day, select­ed works and a small selec­tion of every­day objects from the artist’s stu­dio will be shown in dis­play cas­es as a guest per­for­mance at Galerie Welz. Graph­ic works, water­col­ors and oil paint­ings from the gallery’s col­lec­tion com­plete the overview of works.

 

On the 1st floor

EVA MÖSENEDER

Andrea Löb­mann will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Eva Mös­ened­er (born 1957), who has estab­lished her­self as a print­mak­er, returns to her begin­nings — paint­ing — along­side new two-dimen­sion­al graph­ic works. Her pic­tures are most­ly pop­u­lat­ed by veg­e­tal plant crea­tures. The crea­tures emerge from the paint dur­ing the paint­ing process, as if by them­selves. This makes the cre­ative process very dif­fer­ent from that of col­or etch­ing. The exhi­bi­tion shows the artist’s cur­rent graph­ic and print­mak­ing works. 

EXHIBITION DURATION: 7. June — July 12, 2025

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