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The Angelika Kauffmann Museum is a museum in
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(Austria) dedicated to the life and works of the Swiss painter
Angelica Kauffman Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( ; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, K ...
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, Angelica Kauffman had close ties to her father's home village of Schwarzenberg. Together, they worked for the local bishop, creating apostle frescoes and the high altarpiece. Numerous letters and donations to the community indicate her life-long connection to Schwarzenberg, even after having moved to Italy.


The building

The museum is housed in the "Kleberhaus", an old farmhouse in the traditional wooden style of the village, which dates back to 1556. The exhibition area is about 220 square meters large. The former agricultural wing of the house was specially adapted for the museum. The architect, Helmut Dietrich, carefully renovated the building by highlighting characteristic features like old tie beams and dark log walls but nonetheless giving it a clean, modern touch.


Exhibitions

In the 2019 exhibition "Angelika Kauffmann – Unknown Treasures from Vorarlberg Private Collections", many of her paintings were shown to the public for the first time, as a large parts of her oeuvre are owned by private collectors. * 2021: To Italy! Angelika Kauffmann and the Grand Tour *2019: Angelika Kauffmann – Unknown Treasures from Vorarlberg Private Collections * 2018: Er ist wer. Männerporträts von Angelika Kauffmann * 2017: Ich sehe mich. Frauenporträts von Angelika Kauffmann * 2016: Das bin ich. Kinderporträts von Angelika Kauffmann * 2015: Angelika Kauffmann. Residenz Rom


Local history museum

In addition to the Angelika Kauffmann Museum, the Kleberhaus has been housing the Schwarzenberg local history museum ("Heimatmuseum", founded in 1913) since 1928. It documents the domestic and farming culture of the 18th and early 19th centuries.


Exhibitions

* 2020/21: Who owns the "Bödele"? Understanding a cultural landscape *2019: How it used to be at home * 2017/18: Heimarbeit. Wirtschaftswunder am Küchentisch * 2015/16: hüslo – bopplo – spielo (exhibition about toys)
File:Angelika Kauffmann-Museum.JPG, The Kleberhaus in winter File:AKM - Fenster.jpg, Detail of the building – window File:AKMuseum8.JPG, Living room File:AKMuseum7.JPG, Bed room File:AKMuseum10.JPG


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