2023-05-13 10:25:24
LH Mikl-Leitner: Museums are flagships and preservers of historical heritage
St. Polten (OTS) – Yesterday, Friday, Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner opened the exhibition “Sacred Art Nouveau” in the Museum am Dom, which focuses on ecclesiastical art from around 1900 in Austria. After welcoming words from museum director Manuela Rechberger, who gave an overview of the exhibition, Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner spoke of the Museum am Dom, founded 135 years ago as Austria’s first diocesan museum, as an important part of the museum landscape in Lower Austria. “Our museums are figureheads and custodians of historical heritage, which assume responsibility in conveying belief, knowledge and history,” said Mikl-Leitner.
In the Museum am Dom, art and culture are the top priority and the governor described the exhibition as “an important bridge between the church and the faithful and between sacred and secular art”. The exhibition impressively shows that “Art Nouveau has long since made its way into our churches, monasteries and monasteries.” Examples of this can be found in many parts of Lower Austria, explained Mikl-Leitner, “such as in the Kierlinger parish church near Klosterneuburg or of course in the synagogue here in St. Pölten”, where in cooperation with the state A dialogue center should be created with the state capital, “with which we want to build bridges between the individual cultures and religions.”
But Art Nouveau also left its mark on Lower Austrian painting and architecture: “Think of Ernst Stöhr, who was born in St. Pöltner, and whose Stöhr house you can admire on the way to the museum,” said the provincial governor, or Koloman Moser, co-founder of the Secession , “who immortalized Lower Austria in his paintings such as the ‘View of the Rax’.” She also recalled “the Villa Loos in Melk, the Villa Antoinette in Semmering or the beautiful Art Nouveau theater ‘Sommerarena’ in Baden.”
Art Nouveau is an art with a very long history, said Mikl-Leitner in conclusion and thanked the museum director Manuela Rechberger and the more than 170 people “who made this exhibition, which will inspire all Art Nouveau lovers, possible in the first place.”
In his words, Bishop Schwarz emphasized the “benevolence of the state of Lower Austria for art, culture and church” and was looking forward to the exhibition in the Museum am Dom. “With the ‘Sacred Art Nouveau’ exhibition we are creating a prophetic call sign, because here people can develop a new sense of the sacred and it shows that beautiful things stand the test of time,” says Schwarz.
Renate Gamsjäger, city councilor in St. Pölten, also had a say, expressing her delight that some pieces from the city archives from the estate of the Lower Austrians Ernst Stöhr (St. Pölten) and Ferdinand Andri (Waidhofen ad Ybbs) can be seen in the exhibition .
The “Sacred Art Nouveau” exhibition in the Museum am Dom in St. Pölten is open to the public from today, Saturday, and can be visited until November 15, 2023. Details below www.museumamdom.at
Questions & contact:
Office of the Lower Austrian provincial government
State Office Directorate/Public Relations
Doris Zöger
02742/9005-13314
presse@noel.gv.at
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