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Special Exhibition 2010
"Myth of the Alps in the 19th Century:
Richard Wagners hiking tours in Switzerland"
In the early 1850s Richard Wagner lived in Switzerland not only
as a political refugee but also as a tourist and an adventurous
hiker. Especially Brunnen and Lucerne were visited by Wagner several
times. From here he started his long hiking tours in Central Switzerland.
The exhibition shows how dangerous such mountain tours of several
days in the pioneer period of Swiss alpinism were. They often took
place with unsufficient equipment, mostly on foot or on horseback
on unmarked paths. Musical inspirations which resulted from the
close relationship of Wagner to the great landscape of the mountains
are also reported concretely. The exhibition is enriched by original
documents from the Richard Wagner National Archive Bayreuth.
An Exhibition of the Office ARTES, Rombach Curators: Dr. Verena
Naegele / Sibylle Ehrismann
Vernissage: Sunday 14th March 2010
The exhibition can be visited during the Opening
hours of the museum: from 16th March until 30th November
2010.
Different events to this exhibition are in planning. We will inform
shortly.
We would like to point out the following publications to you
(both only in German):
A nicely illustrated brochure to this exhibition has been published:
Myth of the Alps in the 19th Century. Richard Wagners hiking
tours in Switzerland.
This is available in the museumshop for CHF 15.00.
To the same subject the following new book can be recommended:
A place for Gods. Richard Wagners hiking tours in Switzerland.
Authors: Eva Rieger and Hiltrud Schroeder, Böhlau Publishing
House, 2009
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