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Bilder erzählen – Sammlung Peter Schmidt (Telling Pictures - Collection Peter Schmidt)

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From work in the countryside to social life in the city - genre painting depicts people's everyday lives and, with its wealth of detail, tells stories that are still fascinating and moving today. Anecdotal and entertaining, the paintings in the collection offer a fascinating insight into the lives and imaginations of the social classes from the second half of the 19th century. The core of the exhibition in the private foundation museum "Bilder erzählen - Sammlung Peter Schmidt" is formed by paintings from the Munich School and the Düsseldorf School of Painting with works by their important representatives Carl Theodor von Piloty, Wilhelm von Diez, Franz von Defregger and Hugo Kauffmann as well as Ludwig Knaus, Benjamin Vautier, Christian Ludwig Bokelmann and Ernestine Friedrichsen. Works by European and American genre painters complement the collection of Waldkraiburg entrepreneur and art collector Peter Schmidt (1932-2017).

Last edited on 14.02.2024

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Painting of a painter in an inn parlour, drawing a drunken, slumbering man while being observed by guests and employees (opens enlarged image)
Friedrich von Keller, Der Maler in der Wirtsstube, 1876, first acquisition by Peter Schmidt in Vienna in 1954 © Bilder erzählen - Sammlung Peter Schmidt (Pictures tell - Collection Peter Schmidt)
Exterior view of the modern museum building with its bright façade and large, inviting entrance area (opens enlarged image)
Museum Bilder erzählen - Collection Peter Schmidt (Pictures tell - Collection Peter Schmidt), entrance area © Frank Aussieker
Interior view with walls set in different bright colours, on which works from the various motif groups are presented (opens enlarged image)
Exhibition room with coloured walls, corresponding to the motif groups © Frank Aussieker
Three people in a living room in an apparent argument; one man sits at a table and turns away, while the other looks questioningly at a woman who seems to be mediating between them (opens enlarged image)
Ludwig Knaus, Hopeless attempt at atonement, 1905 © Bilder erzählen - Sammlung Peter Schmidt (Pictures tell - Collection Peter Schmidt)
A girl sits at an open window and happily reads a letter. (opens enlarged image)
Carl Kricheldorf, A letter bringing joy © Bilder erzählen - Sammlung Peter Schmidt (Pictures tell - Collection Peter Schmidt)
Poor women and children pick up broken clothes and scraps of fabric in a square. (opens enlarged image)
Ernestine Friedrichsen, Quarrelling ragpickers, 1871 © Bilder erzählen - Sammlung Peter Schmidt (Pictures tell - Collection Peter Schmidt)

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