The art of living is to live with art.
For fully a century, art has played a major role in the Parkhotel Laurin, and thus art is presented to the guest in every room. The hotel itself is a unique artwork, including for example the legendary Laurin Bar with its fresco paintings by Bruno Goldschmitt, one of the major German representative of the Ironic Art Nouveau movement. Further exquisite works are found in the guest rooms themselves, in the parlours and in the private hotel park. The entire collection comprises around 200 original 20th Century works, from woodcut to canvas, from impressionism to German New Objectivity.
Highlight of the year: The Laurin Suite@Paradeis in the Alois Lageder winery in Magrè.
Highlight of the year: The Laurin Suite@Paradeis in the Alois Lageder winery in Magrè.
Herbert Achternbusch | >> more…
born in Munich, 1938
The artist lives in Munich. He became famous in the 1970s as a film director, mainly of absurd comedies but also of several socially critical films. Also being skilled as an artist, Achternbusch returned to what was his original medium in the 1980s. Apart form his paintings, which are distinguished by their blithe, naïve and colour-intensive style, Achternbusch has also composed a series of endearingly grotesque illustrated books for adults and children alike.
Hans Boehler | >> more…
Gotthard Bonell | >> more…
Julia Bornefeld | >> more…
Kiel 1963
Robert Bosisio | >> more…
Italo Bressan | >> more…
Vezzano 1950
Carl Buchheister | >> more…
Hannover 1890 – Hannover 1964
Elizabeth Byers | >> more…
Spokane, WA (USA) 1945
Gianpietro Carlesso | >> more…
Bozen 1961
Carlo Carrà | >> more…
Alessandria 1881 – Milano 1966
Christian Cassar | >> more…
Bozen 1950
Bruno Ceccobelli | >> more…
Montecastello 1952
Antonio Corpora | >> more…
Tunis 1909 – Roma 2004
Arnold Mario Dall'O | >> more…
Lana (BZ) 1960
Gerhild Diesner | >> more…
Innsbruck 1915 – Innsbruck 1995
Cuno Amiet | >> more…
Solothurn 1868 – Oschwand/Kt. Bern/Ct. 1961
1886 - 1891 Instruction at the Munich Academy and Académie Julian in Paris. 1892 - 1893 sojourn in Pont Aven, where the artist made the acquaintance of G. Giacometti, G. Segantini and F. Hodler. In 1898, Amiet moved to Oschwand. From 1906 - 1913 he was a participating member of the group “Die Brücke“. Together with Hodler, Amiet is considered one of the most important pioneers of Modernism in Switzerland. Inspired by the works of the Gauguin circle, as well as van Gogh and “Les Nabis”, he developed around 1900 a vivid, planar and rhythmatized style of Post-Impressionism, which due to its colouristic brilliance can be compared to that of Bonnard.
Lois Anvidalfarei | >> more…
born Badia (BZ), 1962
Anvidalfaei attended the Art School of Ortisei in Val Gardena, and subsequently the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna where he attended the classes of Prof. Joannis Avramidis. Anvidalfarei is a sculptor who depicts the human body in its particular powerful corporeality. Taking into consideration the 20th century tradition, Anvidalfarei proceeds neither as an idealist nor is inclined towards strict formality. Instead, he has developed in view of of his well-observed counterparts a feeling for material gravity, in harmony with a "celebration of upright carriage“.
Siegfried Anzinger | >> more…
born Weyer (A), 1952
Anzinger is one of the main Austrian representatives of the 1980s school of new gestural-expressionist painting in terms of dealing with figural work. He lives and works in Vienna and has held numerous shows at home and abroad, including participating in the Venice Biennale in 1989.
Christian Ludwig Attersee | >> more…
born Bratislava, 1940
Christian Ludwig Attersee is an Austrian painter and illustrator whose works range within the sphere of expressive and highly dynamic objectivity. As a result his works are often characterized by poetically fanciful titles. He has held numerous exhibitions at home and abroad.
Hugo Atzwanger | >> more…
Feldkirch/Vorarlberg 1883 – Bolzano 1960
Hugo Atzwanger studied at the Academy in Munich from 1903-1907, followed by sojourns in Florence, Munich and Berlin. From 1912 he painted his first commissioned murals in South Tyrol, where he eventually settled after the First World War. In 1954 he was awarded the title of professor. His principal means of artistic expression was drawing, and, inspired by models such as Corinth and Slevogt, he represented a late Impressionist drawing style with special attention to rich and detailed composition.
Karl Bachmann | >> more…
born Brunico, 1958
The artist lives and works in Brunico in South Tyrol. During the 1990s, his painting was mainly concerned with the geometric parameters of the configuration of architectural space. In his recent works, Bachmann combines the depiction of the most simple subjects (such as bamboo) with texts in the Arabic script.
Eduard Bäumer | >> more…
Castellaun/Hunsrück 1892 – Munich 1977
After his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts “Städelschule” in Frankfurt, Eduard Bäumer undertook from 1924 onward several sojourns in Italy, mainly in Calabria. In the years 1927 – 1928 he had a studio in Berlin at Carl Hofer’s, and from 1930 – 1931 lived in Paris. In 1933 Bäumer moved to Salzburg. From 1948 – 1963 he worked as a teacher at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. His artistic work dealt with New Objectivity and also recalls an Expressionist and Cubist approach. His late period is characterized by extensive and colourful landscapes of dark formations that are reminiscent of stained glass windows.
Marcello Bizzarri | >> more…
born Bolzano, 1935
Marcello Bizzari lives and works in Bolzano. Throughout the 1970s he operated one of the most important avant-garde galleries in South Tyrol – the „Galleria Il Sole“. His paintings are oriented towards a systematic and almost serial aesthetic.
Peter Blaas | >> more…
born Munich, 1942
Form 1960 – 1964, Peter Blaas studied at the Academy of Vienna, followed by a biennial sojourn in Argentina. Since 1967 he has lived in Innsbruck. The artist proceeds in a primarily intuitive fashion, which is to say that he allows his images to “happen” rather than directing them in an active and conscious way. Memories and visions, fears and desires, and primarily also the experience of nature in its magical dimensions have become the operative factors within his partially abstract-autonomous and partially objective-figurative visual language.
