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Title:Dächer von Bozen - Airone
Eucharistinerkirche

Object name:tableau

Collection:Provincial Council of South Tyrol

In accordance with the resolution of the Council of the Autonomous Province of South Tyrol of 19 December 1979, No. 12, Art. 19 (Inventories), 106 works of art were transferred from the ownership of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-South Tyrol to the ownership of the South Tyrolean Provincial Council in autumn 2005 as part of the movable property. The three frescoes by Karl Plattner (‘South Tyrol’), Siegfried Pörnbacher (‘The Harvest’) and Peter Fellin (‘Bridge between North and South’), which are attached to the provincial council building and are therefore immovable, have remained the property of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano-Alto Adige as ‘art in architecture’.

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Created by:Fohn, Emanuel (Klagenfurt, 1881-03-26 - South Tyrol, 1966-12-14)

Production period:Mitte 20. Jahrhundert

Description:City from the bird perspective

Hist. crit. notes:Born in Klagenfurt, Emmanuel Fohn (1881 – 1966) studied privately in Dachau before furthering his education at the Munich Academy. He later moved to Berlin where he studied under Lovis Corinth. For a time, he ran a painting school in Hamburg and, in the 1920s was a frequent visitor to Venice and Paris, where he enjoyed considerable success. After 1933, he lived in Rome for a decade before moving to Castelrotto/Kastelruth. By 1938, Fohn had amassed a considerable collection of 18th and 19th century Romantic art deemed undesirable (so-called degenerate art) and banned by the then Nazi authorities. Given its incompatibility with his own work, this would seem to confirm Fohn's appreciation of art in a broader sense. By the time he moved to South Tyrol in 1943, Fohn had laid the basis for a relationship with a younger generation of artists.
This undated picture of Bolzano shows a detail of the Eucharistinerkirche Church (Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament) as it was after World War II. It looks out at the Sarntal valley as far as the ruins of Rafenstein Castle with the Sarner Scharte col in the background. This exemplifies the way Fohn uses few but incisive brush strokes to create elegant compositions. (Markus Neuwirth, Moving between North and South, in: Art in the Provincial Council of South Tyrol, Bolzano/Bozen 2024, p. 161, 200-201)

Material:oil paint
canvas

Technique:gemalt

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Physical description:Öl auf Leinwand

Institution:Art collections of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol

Street:Department for German Culture, Andreas-Hofer-Straße | via Andreas Hofer, 1

Place:39100 Bolzano/Bozen

Country:Italy

E-mail:kultur@provinz.bz.it

Telephone:+39 0471 413360

Web:http://www.provinz.bz.it/kunst-kultur/kultur

Keyword:Landscape

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