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Residenzgalerie in the DomQuartier Salzburg

The collection of the Province of Salzburg comprises European painting from the 16th – 19th centuries.
Of outstanding interest are the 17th-century Dutch paintings acquired from the Viennese collection of Count Czernin. The Residenzgalerie Salzburg also presents works by important Italian, French and Austrian masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the collection is rounded off by 19th-century Austrian painting.

to the Collection Online of the Residenzgalerie Salzburg

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Focus of the Residenzgalerie Salzburg

17^th-century Dutch painting (Rembrandt, Rubens, Brueghel), 17^th and 18^th-century Italian, French and Austrian painting as well as works by 19^th-century Austrian masters (Waldmüller, Amerling, Makart, Ender). The permanent exhibition is completed by regular special exhibitions.

Flemish Baroque

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Adriaen Brouwer, Feeling, around 1635, oil/oak , 24.1 x 19.9 cm, inv. no. 533 © RGS/Ghezzi

Adriaen Brouwer, The Feeling

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Jan Brueghel the Elder, Village Scene with Figures and Cows, 1609, oil/copper, 10.7 x 16.9 cm, inv. no. 559 © RGS/Ghezzi

Jan Brueghel the Elder, Village Scene with Figures and Cows

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Cornelis de Heem, Still Life with Oysters, Lemons and Grapes, oil/oak, 35.5 x 45 cm, inv. no. 561 © RGS/Ghezzi

Cornelis de Heem, Still Life with Oysters, Lemons and Grapes

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Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of Charles V as Ruler of the World, oil/canvas, 166.5 x 141 cm, inv. no. 303 © RGS/Ghezzi

Peter Paul Rubens, Allegory of Charles V as Ruler of the World

>> More pictures about the Flemish Baroque on Google Arts & Culture

Dutch Baroque

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Still Life, Breakfast with Champaign Glass and Pipe, 1652, oil/oak, 46.5 x 58.5 cm, inv. no. 562 © RGS/Ghezzi

Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Still Life, Breakfast with Champaign Glass and Pipe

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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Old Woman Praying, around 1629/30, oil/copper, 15.5 x 12.2 cm, inv. no. 549 © RGS/Ghezzi

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Old Woman Praying

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Salomon van Ruysdael, Seascape with Sailing Boat on the Right, oil/oak, 35.8 x 32.9 cm, inv no. 552 © RGS/Ghezzi

Salomon van Ruysdael, Seascape with Sailing Boat on the Right

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Paulus Potter, Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning, 1647, oil/oak, 38.5 x 50 cm, inv. no. 548 © RGS/Ghezzi

Paulus Potter, Driving the Cattle to Pasture in the Morning

>> More pictures about the Dutch Baroque on Google Arts & Culture

French Baroque

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François Boucher, Dreaming Shepherdess, around 1763, oil/canvas, 56.9 x 46.5 cm, inv. no. 587 © RGS/Ghezzi

François Boucher, Dreaming Shepherdess

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Gaspard Dughet, Heroic Landscape with Figures, oil/canvas, 111.5 x 153 cm, inv. no. 225 © RGS/Ghezzi

Gaspard Dughet, Heroic Landscape with Figures

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Hubert Robert, Fountain on a Palace Terrace, oil/canvas, 28.5 x 40.4 cm, inv. no. 495 © RGS/Ghezzi

Hubert Robert, Fountain on a Palace Terrace

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Claude-Joseph Vernet, Girls Bathing at the Seaside, 1761, oil/canvas, 49.8 x 73.8 cm, inv. no. 474 © RGS/Ghezzi

Claude-Joseph Vernet, Girls Bathing at the Seaside

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Italian Baroque

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Francesco Solimena, Bathing Bathsheba, oil/canvas, 103 x 128.4 cm, inv. no. 197 © RGS/Ghezzi

Francesco Solimena, Bathing Bathsheba

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Bernardo Strozzi, Sleeping Child, oil/canvas, 34.5 x 47.6 cm, inv. no. 567 © RGS/Ghezzi

Bernardo Strozzi, Sleeping Child

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Federico Barocci, Self-Portrait, around 1600, oil/canvas, 40 x 33.6 cm, inv. no. 312 © RGS/Ghezzi

Federico Barocci, Self-Portrait

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Luca Giordano, Resurrection, after 1665, oil/canvas, 114 x 116 cm, inv. no. 285 © RGS/Ghezzi

Luca Giordano, Resurrection

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Austrian Baroque

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Franz Anton Maulbertsch, The Last Supper, oil/canvas, 134.5 x 222.5 cm, inv. no. 233 © RGS/Ghezzi

Franz Anton Maulbertsch, The Last Supper

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Bartolomeo Altomonte, The Four Seasons Paying Homage to Chronos, around 1731, oil/canvas, 74.5 x 94.5 cm, inv. no. 235 © RGS/Ghezzi

Bartolomeo Altomonte, The Four Seasons Paying Homage to Chronos

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Paul Troger, The Young Moses in front of Pharaoh, 1739/40, oil/canvas 110.5 x 132 cm, inv. nr. 297 © RGS/Ghezzi

Paul Troger, The Young Moses in front of Pharaoh

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Johann Georg Platzer, The Miraculous Catch of Fish, oil/copper, 45.9 x 65.7 cm, inv. no. 228 © RGS/Ghezzi

Johann Georg Platzer, The Miraculous Catch of Fish

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Austria 19th century

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Thomas Ender, The Großglockner Mountain with the Pasterze Glacier, oil/wood, 42.5 x 60.5, inv. no 592 © RGS/Ghezzi

Thomas Ender, The Großglockner Mountain with the Pasterze Glacier

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Hans Makart, Amalie Makart, oil/mahogany, 76 x 58.2 cm, inv. no. 1 © RGS/Ghezzi

Hans Makart, Amalie Makar

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Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Children at the Window, oil/canvas, 85 x 69 cm, inv. no. 335 © RGS/Ghezzi

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Children at the Window

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Johann Fischbach, View of Salzburg with the Kapuzinerberg, 1844, oil/wood, 37.4 x 47.7 cm, inv. no. 255 © RGS/Ghezzi

Johann Fischbach, View of Salzburg with the Kapuzinerberg

>> More pictures about the Austria 19th century on Google Arts & Culture

Virtual tour through the exhibition: From 0 to 100. 100 years of the Residenzgalerie, 100 reasons to celebrate

Virtual tour through the exhibition: Colloredo. Reformer in a new light

Virtual tour through the exhibition: Town • Landscape • Mountain – Salzburg and surroundings

Virtual tour through the exhibition: Highlights. Residenzgalerie Salzburg

Virtual tour through the exhibition: Mastworks. Residenzgalerie Salzburg

The museum

The paintings are presented in 11 rooms of the former archiepiscopal Residenz.

Residenzgalerie Salzburg © RGS/Eckschlager

The history of the Residenzgalerie

Founded in 1923, the Residenzgalerie was intended on the one hand to replace the archiepiscopal art collection, lost in the early 19th century, and on the other to boost tourism in the Town and Province of Salzburg. Political events forced its closure in 1938.

Reopened on 3 August 1952, the gallery focused on the collection of 16th- to 20th-century paintings. When the Province of Salzburg established the Rupertinum museum for 20th-century art in 1980, the Residenzgalerie handed over its complete stock of 20th-century art.

The works purchased by the Residenzgalerie between 1956 and 1994 from the former Czernin Collection in Vienna constitute the most important stock of paintings. These works were collected by Count Johann Rudolf Czernin between 1800 and 1840.

The Residenzgalerie is situated in the east wing of the Residenz, the fabric of which dates back to around 1600. The stucco work on the ceilings in the northern rooms was commissioned by Prince-Archbishop Franz Anton Harrach, who used these rooms as audience chambers and living quarters. At the end of the 18th century, Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo used this storey for the first time to display the archiepiscopal painting collection.

Franz Xaver Mandl, View of Salzburg, 1835, oil/canvas, 68 x 92.5 cm, inv. no. 220 © RGS/Ghezzi

Research

Collection Online

Collection Online Residenzgalerie DomQuartier Salzburg

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Library online

Discover our library. We look forward to welcoming you personally or online.
The library was built up systematically in conjunction with our permanent collection, focusing on European painting of the 16th – 19th centuries. The book stock comprises literature in several languages.

We are a reference library, so it is not possible to borrow books. Please make an appointment if you wish to visit in person:

Tel.: +43 662 8042 2109
E-mail: office@domquartier.at

Online search
(The online search takes you to the German-language website, but entries may be made in other languages.)

You can start your search with a key word. The result will take you to the page “Bibliotheken im Salzburger Landesarchiv” with the name “Bibliothek der Residenzgalerie Salzburg (Amtsbibliothek 551)”.

Conservation

Conservation and restoration of the painting Children at the window by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller

Restoration of Waldmüller’s Children at the Window hadlong been intended, since the painting not only showedaesthetic defects, but also required preventive treatment. This was carried out early in 2023.

The aim was to restore the painting to the condition of the original artistic intention, by bringing to light obscured details of the composition, the spatial effect and subtleties of the painting. The tear was to be expertly closed, the area around it stabilised and paint losses to be filled and integrated into the picture.

The restoration allowed exposure of intact areas of the painting layer, thus improving the legibility of the picture. The yellowed varnish having been removed, the colours once more show to full effect. The large tear was invisibly integrated into the picture. The painting is now in a stable and aesthetically appealing condition.

To the video about the restoration

2023 Mag. Dr. Thomas Habersatter, Mag. Astrid Ducke, Residenzgalerie Salzburg | DomQuartier Salzburg
Mag. Gerhard Walde, Mag. Simone Wernitznig, Mag. Elisabeth Reith, Atelier Walde, Vienna
Thanks for the support for the conservation and restoration of the painting by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Children at the Window, 1853, Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Inv. no. 335, to Federal Chancellery of Austria

Sponsored by the Federal Chancellery of Austria (dept. VI/4 culture funding)

Panel paintings 2015 – 2020

Restoration project
Remounting of panels in ornamental frames

2015 – 2019 Dr. Erika Oehring
2020 – 2021 Mag. Astrid Ducke

Mag. Gerhard Walde
Conservation and restoration of historical, modern and contemporary art, Vienna

The Residenzgalerie owns 81 panel paintings (16th -19th centuries). In the historical premises, these paintings react extremely sensitively to atmospheric fluctuations, which are reinforced by factors including increased flow of visitors. The aim of the restoration project is to make controlled movement (expansion / contraction) possible for the wooden picture supports, by means of a newly-developed mounting technique with flexibly defined pressure adapted to each individual panel.

Sponsored by the Federal Chancellery of Austria (dept. VI/4 culture funding)

Provenance research

Since 1987, the Province of Salzburg has been carrying out checks on the provenance of controversial works of art in its collection. By order of the Province of Salzburg, the Provincial Archive has examined and published the inventory records of between 1942 and 1944, in order to clarify the process of acquisition at that time and the legal situation.

Publication: Fritz Koller,Das Inventarbuch der Landesgalerie Salzburg. 1942 – 1944. Salzburg 2000

Since 1987, the Province of Salzburg has checked the provenance of all the art objects in its museums.

In 1998, a publication was issued on the Residenzgalerie Salzburg collection exhibited during the period 1923 – 1938 as loans or acquisitions.
Reference: Gerhard Plasser, residenzfähig. Sammlungsgeschichte der Residenzgalerie Salzburg 1923 – 1938, Salzburg 1998

Commissioned by the Province of Salzburg, the provincial archive produced an edition (published in 2000) of the inventory register drawn up by art dealer Friedrich Welz between 1942 and 1944 for the art-works acquired by the National Socialist “Landesgalerie Salzburg”.
Reference: Fritz Koller, Das Inventarbuch der Landesgalerie Salzburg. 1942 – 1944. Salzburg 2000

Parallel to the Salzburg provincial archive’s research on the “Landesgalerie” inventory register, which lists Friedrich Welz’s acquisitions from 1942 until 1944, since 1998 the Residenzgalerie has carried out provenance research on those purchases by Welz which were not restituted after World War II, but remained in Salzburg museums; the results were published in 2007. The works in question date mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries (up to 1945).
Reference: Roswitha Juffinger, Gerhard Plasser, Salzburger Landessammlungen 1939 – 1955. Salzburg 2007

After the founding of the Rupertinum (now Museum der Moderne Salzburg), the remaining works dating from the first half of the 20th century, purchased by Welz during the war, were handed over to the Museum der Moderne. For restitutions implemented by the Museum der Moderne, see the Museum website.

Special research project

The “tonal painting” research project comprises paintings of the Leiden and Haarlem schools from the Dutch collection of the Residenzgalerie, Province of Salzburg.

Download pdf (in german)

Research project 2017 – 2018
"Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria (1842 – 1919) and the inventory of his estate from Schloss Klessheim"

The project aims first: to prepare an online version with an appraisal of the historical photographs and a study of the Salzburg art market around 1920, including the selling arrangements of Ludwig Viktor’s estate by the Dorotheum in Vienna and the American Art Association in New York, and second: to prepare a concept for an exhibition project including those items from the estate now in possession of the Province of Salzburg and the Salzburg Museum.

Dr. Roswitha Juffinger
Art historian, Vienna
Project of the Province of Salzburg / DQ Salzburg collections / Salzburg archive
E-mail: roswitha@juffinger.cc

Enquiries

Curators

Collection and research: Mag. Astrid Ducke, Dr. Thomas Habersatter
Registrar: Mag. Astrid Ducke
Reproductions: Dr. Thomas Habersatter
Library: Dr. Thomas Habersatter
Cataloguing and data bank: Mag. Astrid Ducke, Dr. Thomas Habersatter

Art educator

Art educator: Mag. Andrea Olivia Löschnig

Shop

Shop: Ribolits Annemarie

Since 2014, the Salzburg Residenzgalerie has been part of the DomQuartier. The DomQuartier tour takes visitors through the special exhibitions in the Residenzgalerie.

DomQuartier Übersichts-Karte