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Ludwig Schwanthaler
The sculptor who gave Mozart his public face in Salzburg. Ludwig Schwanthaler created the large bronze statue at the centre of Mozartplatz, unveiled in 1842, 51 years after Mozart's death. Mozart's two surviving sons,…
THE LOCALS
People who shaped Salzburg
Artists, composers, guides, hoteliers, chefs, makers, and founders with a real connection to the city.
204Salzburg lives and work
The origins map
Where Salzburg's people came from
A magnet more than a cradle: most of these figures were born elsewhere and came to Salzburg. Every pin is a birthplace.
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Manfred Wakolbinger
At Rudolfskai on the right bank of the Salzach River, Manfred Wakolbinger's Connection sits in the narrow gap between the medieval city wall and the water: an eleven-metre polished steel wave that curves open and lets…
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Marcel Hirscher
The most successful alpine ski racer in history grew up on the slopes of the Tennengau, a valley south of Salzburg where his family ran a ski school. Marcel Hirscher won eight consecutive World Cup overall titles from…
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Maria Callas
The defining soprano of the 20th century, and the great Salzburg performance that never happened. Despite her famous partnership with Herbert von Karajan, Maria Callas never actually sang at the Salzburg Festival: the…
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Maria von Trapp
Born Maria Augusta Kutschera in 1905. Postulant at Nonnberg Abbey from 1924. Sent to tutor Georg von Trapp's sick daughter around 1926. Married Georg at Nonnberg Abbey in November 1927. Left Austria by train in 1938…
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Marina Abramović
Marina Abramovic, widely regarded as the most important performance artist alive, created Spirit of Mozart (2004), a permanent stainless-steel chair sculpture at the northern bridgehead of the Staatsbrucke. It is one…
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Mario Merz
In the forest on the Monchsberg, twelve curved stainless-steel arches rise seven metres among the trees, each carrying glowing neon Fibonacci numerals. Mario Merz's Ziffern im Wald (2003) is visible from below at…
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Marko Feingold
Marko Feingold survived four Nazi concentration camps: Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, and Buchenwald. After liberation in 1945 he ended up in Salzburg by accident, when Soviet forces blocked the convoy heading home to…
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Markus Hinterhäuser
Markus Hinterhauser has been building his career in the Salzburg Festival longer than anyone in its modern history. He arrived as a pianist in the early 1990s, became Mortier's closest artistic collaborator, and…
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Markus Lüpertz
Markus Lupertz made Homage to Mozart (2005), the most aggressively modernist of Salzburg's Mozart monuments. The large bronze at Ursulinenplatz near the Gstattentor depicts Mozart in a loose, semi-abstract style that…
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Martino Altomonte
The painter of Stift St. Peter. Born in Naples as Martino Johann Hohenberger, Altomonte adopted an Italian name and spent decades creating altarpieces for Austria's churches and monasteries. His altar paintings in St.…
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Max Planck
When Albert Einstein gave his first public lecture on relativity in Salzburg in 1909, the man sitting in the audience who mattered most was Max Planck: the founder of quantum physics and the most powerful voice in…