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Municipal Gallery of Paintings Hohes Schloss

The Municipal Gallery of Paintings State Gallery and Municipal Gallery Admission fees takes you back to the world of art and of Paintings Adults 6,- € ideas of the 19th century. Magnusplatz 10, 87629 Füssen Reduced price 4,- € Tel. +49 (0)8362 903 143 und Combi ticket museums* 7,- € On permanent loan from Dr. Hermann 940 162 (ticket office) Under 18 years free Probst, one room shows paintings [email protected] School classes free from artists of the Munich school. www.hohesschloss.fuessen.de „The Watch“ by Carl Spitzweg, * State Gallery with Municipal Gallery landscapes by Adolf Lier and Joseph of Paintings and Museum of Füssen Wenglein and the portrait of a girl by Opening hours artist Franz von Defregger stand out April - October: especially. Tuesday - Sunday • 11 am - 5 pm Imprint November - March: © Editor and PrePress: Friday - Sunday • 1 pm - 4 pm Museum of Füssen, November 2020 Basic layout: Jung GmbH, Munich Franz von Defregger, Peasant Girl Cover picture: Stifterbild 1572 (Detail) © Simon Toplak Guided tours © Bavarian State Painting Collections Special tours by arrangement: Print: Saxoprint, Dresden On show is also the monumental 50,- € plus admission Subject to alterations - errors excepted A full of Art „Procession in Leukerbad“ by Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow (1862-1925) one of his major works painted in the style of Hohes Schloss „domestic realism“. Born in Moscow he grew up in St. Petersburg and State Gallery studied in Geneva, Düsseldorf, Paris and Munich. Municipal Gallery of Paintings From 1914 until his death in 1925 he lived in Bad Faulenbach in Füssen. Wall-Walks and

Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow, Sketch for „Procession in Leukerbad“, around 1890

Hohes Schloss, courtyard © Foto: M. Sailer

A Bishop‘s Castle A Commanding View Gothic Art

The “Hohes Schloss“ in Füssen Wall-Walks and Towers The State Gallery

From the wall-walks, accessible via The late gothic panelling and the the State Gallery you can climb up to sculptures of the State Gallery the Room on the sixth floor of the harmonize well together in the prince- Tower and gain some insight into bishop‘s residential rooms. This the way of life of a watch man. From exhibition offers an excellent overview there you have the most beautiful pa- of art in Allgäu and Bavarian-Swabia norama of Füssen and the surrounding in the 15th and 16th centuries. area. The dead straight road heading north is a visible link to the old Roman A large painting „Salvator Mundi“ a road the Via Claudia Augusta. Likewise, donation of the Prince-Bishop Fried- the Fall Tower on the other side of rich II von Zollern, opens the branch the courtyard which once served as a gallery of the Bavarian state painting dungeon, is also open to the public. View from the Clock Tower © Municipal archive collections (Bayerische Staatsgemäl- desammlungen). Around 1820 pharmacist Johann 1 Prison Tower Schider had a terraced garden with Abbot Hieronymus Alber donated a Hohes Schloss (“High Palace“), Füssen © FTM, Günter Standl 2 High House or Stork Tower Christ as „Salvator Mundi“ medicinal herbs laid out. Accessible 1570 commissioned painting which (Saviour of the world), Augsburg, 1494 3 Trinity Tower during the summer months via the long documents exactly late medieval © Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen The former summer residence of Under Bishop Friedrich II von Zollern staircase. 4 Gate Tower or Clock Tower Füssen and five panels retell the life of the Prince Bishops of Augsburg still large scale extensions were carried out 5 Dungeon Saint Magnus. In comparison, powerful pictures of dominates the townscape today. It is between 1489 and 1504 turning it into a 6 North Wing plague and war - the scourges of a magnificent example of a late gothic magnificent and well fortified castle and mankind - carry home the historical 2 7 South Wing secular building and impresses with palace. A massive now protected reality of the early modern ages to the 8 St. Vitus Chapel its splendid illusionist architectural the endangered west side, wall-walks observer. 1 6 9 Outer Ward paintings. and outer ward reinforcements were also 3 included. The north wing of the three 10 Long Staircase The status of a town was conferred on winged complex housed a ceremonial 7 11 Terraced Garden Füssen between 1274 and 1286, then in hall and the bishop‘s private quarters. 1291 Duke Louis the Severe of Bavaria The south wing served as the admini- Detail from the coffered ceiling in the Knight‘s Hall around 1500 in the north began illegally with the building of the stration quarters and was adjoined to 8 11 4 wing © Hans Hechtfischer castle. The bishop of Augsburg stopped the east by the St. Vitus Chapel. all construction work, acquired the 10 We can relive the flourishing cultural unfinished castle in 1322 and began The castle fell as part of secularisation 9 era of Emperor Maximilian I in the to turn it into the seat of local adminis- to the Bavarian Kingdom and from „Knights‘ Hall“ with its magnificent 9 tration. 1862/63 served as a district court. 5 carved coffered ceiling, the reliefs of Today it houses offices of the Inland the bishopric‘s saints, Ulrich, Afra Revenue and a museum. and Simpert and the Mother of God as well as rare glass pictures from Hans „gladius“ The War, Upper Swabia around Castle complex around 1500 (south-east view) © Hening Lautz, 1949 Holbein the elder and Hans Burgkmair. 1500 © Bayer. Staatsgemäldesammlungen