Zinkenbacher Artists`Colony

ZINKENBACH PAINTERS' COLONY -
INSIGHTS INTO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

The Zinkenbach Painters' Colony Museum in St. Gilgen am Wolfgangsee is a small, fine museum that sheds light on the life and work of the artists who spent their summer holidays at the Adambauer farm in Zinkenbach during the interwar period.
For over 25 years, the museum has presented annual exhibitions with works from its own collection as well as top-class loans from museums and private collections.
This year's exhibition is dedicated to private collectors and their reasons for collecting art.
Discover extraordinary private collections, hidden estates and masterpieces of Austrian interwar art that have never been shown to the public before. The exhibition makes visible and tangible what is important to collectors - their passion, their emotions and their personal connection to art.
You can look forward to numerous unpublished landscape paintings, portraits, still lifes and prints by Josef Dobrowsky, Georg Ehrlich, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Ferdinand Kitt, Oskar Laske,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 more.
A comprehensively informative catalog accompanies the exhibition and offers in-depth insights into the presented works and backgrounds.

Exhibition 2026
June 13 to October 11, 2026
Daily from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Museum Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie
Aberseestrasse 11
5340 St. Gilgen

Curators:
MMag. Claudia Baumann
Robert Schmiedlehner

Summer Exhibition 2024

Lisel Salzer - Lisl Weil - Hilde Spiel
Three artists - three friends
Three artist friends are at the centre of the exhibition: the painter Lisel Salzer, the illustrator and performance artist Lisl Weil and the writer Hilde Spiel. The connections between these artists are close and multi-layered: Lisel Salzer paints Hilde Spiel, with whom she experiences a love affair with two Belgians during a summer in St. Wolfgang, an incident that provides the template for Hilde Spiel's novel Confusion at Lake Wolfgang. Lisel Salzer also paints Lisl Weil's family - the portraits are in the family's estate in New York and will be shown to the public for the first time in the exhibition.
Opening of the summer exhibition 2024 on 22 June 2024 at 14:00!
The exhibition is open daily from 23 June to 13 October 2024 from 14:00 to 19:00!