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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer is the only artist who bookends Salzburg's entire Walk of Modern Art programme, creating both the inaugural commission in 2002 and the final one in 2019. No other artist has left a comparable mark on the…
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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Anton Aicher
Anton Aicher founded the Salzburger Marionettentheater in 1913 with a single Mozart opera, a borrowed gymnasium, and a wood-carving technique refined over a lifetime. The Aicher family ran it for three generations, and…
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Anton Cajetan Adlgasser
The man who died at the Salzburg Cathedral organ. Anton Cajetan Adlgasser served as court organist for 27 years, was a colleague of Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn, and was praised by Mozart himself. His dramatic…
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Anton Diabelli
Anton Diabelli was born in Mattsee in the Salzburg Flachgau, sang at Salzburg Cathedral as a boy, and studied under Michael Haydn. He left for Vienna and became one of its most powerful music publishers. His accidental…
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Anton Faistauer
Anton Faistauer painted the entrance hall of the Grosses Festspielhaus in 1926 and was dead four years later. The Nazis destroyed his frescoes as degenerate art in 1938. The reconstructed versions you see today in the…
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Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri spent 36 years as Imperial Kapellmeister in Vienna and is remembered today almost entirely as Mozart's rival and supposed killer. The poisoning legend is almost certainly false. The man who actually…
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Archbishop Arno of Salzburg
The first Archbishop of Salzburg, and the man who put the city on the map of European power. In 798, Pope Leo III elevated Salzburg to an archdiocese at the direct sponsorship of Emperor Charlemagne, making Arno the…
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Archbishop Eberhard II
The most powerful archbishop Salzburg ever produced. Eberhard II held the archbishopric for an extraordinary 46 years (1200-1246), the longest reign in Salzburg's history, and under his leadership the city reached the…
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Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach
The archbishop who gave Salzburg its dwarves. Harrach's most lasting and peculiar contribution is the Zwerglgarten (Dwarf Garden) within the grounds of Mirabell Palace, commissioned around 1715-1725. The walled garden…
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Archbishop Gebhard von Helfenstein
Gebhard von Helfenstein was Archbishop of Salzburg from 1060 to 1088 and founded Hohensalzburg Fortress in 1077. Every stone of the city's most iconic landmark traces back to a political crisis he chose not to avoid.
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Archbishop Guidobald von Thun
The bridge between two golden ages. Guidobald von Thun's archiepiscopate (1654-1668) maintained Lodron's artistic momentum, continuing to commission works for Salzburg Cathedral and sustaining the court musical…
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Archbishop Hieronymus von Colloredo
Born 1732 in Vienna. Elected Archbishop of Salzburg 1772 after a 13-ballot contest. Enlightenment reformer: shortened Mass, reduced ceremony, banned pilgrimages, expanded schools. Mozart's employer and antagonist;…