Painters. People. Mittenwald.
Portraits of Fritz Prölß (1855-1934)
11.12.2024 - 04.05.2025 ,
Geigenbaumuseum (Violin making museum)
The special exhibition "Painters. People. Mittenwald." presents over 75 works by the portrait and genre painter Fritz Prölß.
Ten pencil and charcoal drawings from the early 1870s are on display for the first time at the Geigenbaumuseum (Violin making museum). These portraits already reveal the great talent of the still young academy student and thus refer to the portraits of Mittenwald residents created in Mittenwald from the 1880s onwards, which Prölß also sketched in charcoal and pencil or painted in oil.
painted in oil.
The people portrayed by Prölß are at the centre of the exhibition. Trace the different personalities (violin makers, young girls and women in traditional costume, merchants' children or hunters and hunting assistants) and find out more about their names and families, their professions and their (life) stories. For example, the houses of the people portrayed are marked on a historical map of the violin-making town.
Last edited on 13.03.2025
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