3–12 July 2013
Cloister of Pernegg Monastery
About the exhibition
In 1970 – exactly 40 years ago – the Catholic priest and art patron Monsignor Otto Mauer presented a group exhibition of the Gugging artists in his Galerie (nächst) St. Stephan for the first time. Today's House of Artists, whose history goes back to the 1950s, was then still part of the psychiatric hospital in Gugging. At the time, Gugging was known only to insiders as the site of an innovative artistic experiment. The Gugging artists were discovered by Dr Leo Navratil. Today they are known worldwide and represented in major museums and collections internationally. Since 1986 they have been supported by Dr Johann Feilacher, who is also the artistic director of the new museum in Gugging. The Otto Mauer Collection, managed by the Vienna Cathedral Museum, holds around 150 drawings and prints by the Gugging artists.
Curator: Bernhard A. Böhler

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