Zinkenbacher Artists`Colony

ZINKENBACH PAINTERS' COLONY -
INSIGHTS INTO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

The Zinkenbach Painters' Colony Museum in St. Gilgen on Lake Wolfgang is a small, fine museum that sheds light on the life and work of the artists who spent their summer retreats 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You can look forward to numerous unpublished landscape paintings, portraits, still lifes and prints by Josef Dobrowsky, Georg Ehrlich, Ernst Huber, Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel, Ferdinand Kitt, Oskar Laske,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

AUTUMNAL ART ENJOYMENT IN ST. GILGEN

Whether as a cultural highlight to round out a golden autumn day on Lake Wolfgang or as a welcome activity on a rainy autumn day: Through October 11, the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie Museum invites you to discover this year’s exhibition!

“INSIGHTS INTO PRIVATE COLLECTIONS”

is the title of the exhibition, which uses selected loaned works to explore what motivates people to collect art. On view are masterpieces of Austrian interwar art being shown to the public for the first time, as well as hidden treasures from extraordinary private collections.

The 2026 exhibition also highlights what matters most to collectors: personal connection, emotion, and a passion for art.

Landscapes, 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—are available to you with the Wolfgangsee Card at a discounted price of 7.00 euros (regularly 9.00 euros for adults ages 16 and older).

The accompanying catalog offers in-depth insights into the artworks as well as fascinating background stories.

Museum Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie
Daily from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Aberseestraße 11

5340 St. Gilgen

www.malerkolonie.at