about the exhibition

The new permanent exhibition at the museum gugging encompasses five decades of art from Gugging: from Josef Bachler's (1914-1979) drawings to current works by younger artists, such as Jürgen Tauscher (*1974).

gugging.! classic & contemporary makes the most of the entire range of creative productivity: Rudolf Horacek (1915-1986) and Oswald Tschirtner (1920-2007) complement the classic Gugging master, August Walla (1936-2001. The large cows of Franz Kamlander (1920-1999) are juxtaposed with the plasmodia of Franz Kernbeis (1935-2019), while Johann Hauser (1926-1996) presents his impressive portraits of women and Karoline Rosskopf (1911 - unknown) her androgynous images of people. An entire room is dedicated to Arnold Schmidt (*1959) - the first presentation of recent works on paper is complemented by a monumental, six-meter-long painting on canvas. Also a premiere for museum gugging are the overdrawings by Leopold Strobl (*1960), an artist who is also one of the great discoveries internationally and whose works are already collected by the Museum of Modern Art. However, the exhibition also features works by the private foundation - artists from gugging.

Artists: Josef Bachler, Laila Bachtiar, Anton Dobay, Leonhard Fink, Johann Fischer, Johann Garber, Johann Hauser, Ernst Herbeck, Helmut Hladisch, Rudolf Horacek, Franz Kamlander, Franz Kernbeis, Fritz Koller, Johann Korec, Heinrich Reisenbauer, Karoline Rosskopf, Arnold Schmidt, Philipp Schöpke, Günther Schützenhöfer, Leopold Strobl, Jürgen Tauscher, Oswald Tschirtner, Karl Vondal, August Walla

gugging.! classic & contemporary offers an exciting juxtaposition of classical and contemporary art from Gugging and once again demonstrates its clear reference position within Art Brut.

Curator: Johann Feilacher