Under the title "Salzburg Museum - Guest Performance", the Salzburg Museum will be a guest at various institutions in the city and province of Salzburg with its own presentations and exhibitions from March 2024. The "Salzburg Museum - Guest Performance" exhibition series will kick off with a presentation in the North Oratory of the DomQuartier Salzburg.
In order to make the works of father Johann Michael and son Hubert Sattler visible after the Panorama Museum closes, the Salzburg Museum will be showing an exhibition entitled "Sacred Places - Views by Hubert Sattler (1817-1904)" from March 8, 2024. While Johann Michael Sattler left behind vedute of the city and province of Salzburg, Hubert Sattler brought back views from his "world travels", which he translated into large-format works in oil. Not only the cosmoramas provide an insight into Hubert Sattler's diverse travels through Europe, the Middle East and North America, but also the wonderful prints he brought back from his travels. They show picturesque views of places of worship of various denominations from antiquity to the 19th century. The selection of works follows Hubert Sattler's travel routes and thus his personal interests. On display are nineteen cosmoramas from four continents and, for the first time, drawings and sketches created in situ.
Hubert Sattler (1817-1904), Cologne from the Deutz district (Germany), 1880-1892, oil on canvas © Salzburg Museum/Maurice Rigaud
Dr. Andrea Stockhammer, Director of DomQuartier Salzburg: "The "Holy Places" exhibition naturally fits perfectly thematically into the north oratory of the cathedral. It opens an interesting window into the world. I look forward to another enriching cooperation with the Salzburg Museum!"
For a long time, traveling was a privilege. At the beginning of the 19th century, the world opened up to people, at least in a virtual way: people got to know foreign lands through peep boxes, panoramas and cosmoramas. Hubert Sattler (*1817 Salzburg - 1904 Vienna) saw his paintings primarily as an educational tool and endeavored to underline this in his accompanying texts with precise topographical and historical information. The illusionism, originally enhanced by an optical device, transported the viewer to the furthest reaches of the globe.
Hubert Sattler (1817-1904), after David Roberts (1796-1864), The Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai
(Egypt), 1851, oil on canvas © Salzburg Museum/Maurice Rigaud
From 1840 to 1870, Sattler exhibited his travel paintings in numerous cities, and from 1850 to 1852 also with great success in the United States. The selection of works follows Hubert Sattler's travel routes and thus his personal interests. On display are nineteen cosmoramas from four continents (Europe, Africa, Central America, the Near East) and, for the first time, drawings created in situ. The focus of the presentation is on places of worship of various denominations from antiquity to the 19th century.
As a painter, Hubert Sattler developed a special method of visualizing the distant, bringing it closer without taking away the magic of the dreamy, wishful image.
March 8, 2024 to January 6, 2025
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