Press kit: Wolfgang Gurlitt. Wolfgang Gurlitt
Art dealer and profiteer in Bad Aussee
28.3. to 27.10.2024
Location: Kammerhofmuseum, Bad Aussee

Life and activities of Wolfgang Gurlitt (1888–1965), who lived in Bad Aussee (and in the latter part of his life, in Munich) between 1940 and his death in 1965, and the beginnings of the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz are closely interwoven: the museum is in charge of his both brilliant and problematic collection, which at one time was conveyed to Bad Aussee for safekeeping. The multifaceted exhibition casts a light on the turbulent life of the passionate collector and ambivalent art dealer Wolfgang Gurlitt and his Jewish partner Lilly Christiansen Agoston (1894–1951), who was involved in the trade of confiscated works of art in the Nazi era. The exhibition at the Kammerhofmuseum Bad Aussee is a collaborative venture with the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz.

Curator: Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller

Lentos and the European Capital of Culture 2024 – Linz, Lauffen, Bad Aussee

Within the overall framework of the programme line “Power and Tradition", the Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz contributed three exhibitions in a project entitled “The Journey of the Paintings" to the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024.The Journey of the Paintings. Hitler’s cultural policies, art trade and storage during the NS era in the Salzkammergut at Lentos in Linz was the flagship event in the capital of Upper Austria and invited visitors to stop over on their way to or from the Capital of Culture.
Furthermore, the Lentos was present in the Salzkammergut in a collaborative venture with the Kammerhofmuseum in Bad Aussee with the exhibition Wolfgang Gurlitt. Art dealer and profiteer in Bad Aussee, and at the revitalised former Marktrichterhaus [Market Reeve’s House] in Lauffen, in the exhibition entitled The Life of Things. Looted – Displaced – Salvaged.