Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum

Profile

Construction of the original building at Rupertinum in the centre of the Altstadt was first alluded to in 1350. Under archbishop Paris Lodron, the "Collegium Rupertinum" palace served as a training location for up-and coming priests and officials. In 1633 the construction was completed in a clear Early Baroque style. The archdiocese used the Early Baroque Altstadt palace as a seminary for hundreds of years. Rupertinum was run as a student residence until 1974.

In 1983 the Rupertinum building was handed over for use as the Salzburg Museum für modern e Kunst for the Salzburg national public collection and, in October 2004, it was transformed into the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, an independent limited liability corporation.

The idea for founding the museum and the collection can be traced back to the initiative of Salzburg art dealer Friedrich Welz, who transferred a large part of his private collection to the province of Salzburg. Through his personal friendship with Oskar Kokoschka , a considerable number of works of great Austrian expressionists found their way in to the Rupertinum collection.

represented artists

Uli Aigner      Siegfried Anzinger      Joannis Avramidis      Max Beckmann      Herbert Boeckl      Erwin Bohatsch      Günter Brus      Valie Export      Hans Fronius      Gelitin      Bruno Gironcoli      Ernst Haas      Rudolf Hradil      Alfred Hrdlicka      Franz Hubmann      Franz Kapfer      Gustav Klimt      Oskar Kokoschka      Elke Krystufek

Alfred Kubin      Maria Lassnig      Inge Morath      Otto Muehl      Hermann Nitsch      Oswald Oberhuber      Arnulf Rainer      Gerhard Rühm      Hubert Schmalix      Rudolf Schwarzkogler      Hans Staudacher      Otmar Thormann      Peter Weibel      Lois & Franziska Weinberger      Manfred Willmann      Fritz Wotruba      Erwin Wurm