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Linz, Austria. Only 6 weeks remain for the Lentos Kunstmuseum’s record-breaking exhibition “Die Reise der Bilder”. The exhibition, part of a larger European Capital of Culture project, concerns the fate of artworks hidden away in Austria’s Salzkammergut region after 1943. Our catalog chapter, Hiding the Works 1933/Versteckte Kunst 1933 departs from the exhibition’s historical focus to trace Frankfurt refugee artist Eric Isenburger’s painting Salzburg from Wolfgang Gurlitt’s gallery in Berlin to the Galerie Moderne in Stockholm. The painting itself, one of few pre-1942 Isenburgers anywhere with a provenance, will be on display throughout the exhibition in homage to those many artists who were forced to hide their own works after Hitler became Chancellor. The exhibition closes on 8 September.

The exhibition catalog, which is in German only, can be ordered here.

The illustrated English version of our essay can be read here.