Max Weiler: Wie eine Symphonie
Max Weiler (1910–2001) created the monumental masterwork Wie eine Symphonie (egg tempera on canvas, 500 x 630 cm) at the age of 80, for a listening space at the Salzburg State Exhibition Mozart – Bilder und Klänge shown in 1991 at Kleßheim Castle.
The Salzburg Festival long wished to be able to exhibit Weiler’s homage to Mozart to a large number of music and art lovers in one of the Festival buildings. The fact that the Private Max Weiler Foundation is now giving the painting to the Festival as a permanent loan, for exhibition at the Karl-Böhm-Saal beginning in the summer of 2008, is a welcome occasion to revisit the many aspects of this complex work and to recall Weiler’s long-term friendship with Clemens Holzmeister, the Festspielhaus architect, and his relationship with the City of Salzburg.
As a permanent loan from the Private Max Weiler Foundation Vienna, the painting Wie eine Symphonie (1990) will not only be on view during the intermissions of all performances at the Felsenreitschule, the Haus für Mozart and other events. Wie eine Symphonie can also be viewed as part of the guided tours offered by the Festival Shop (Hofstallgasse 1).
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