Museum Kunst der Verlorenen Generation

The Museum Kunst der Verlorenen Generation in Salzburg shows only works by painters and sculptors persecuted by the Nazis. It stands in the Steinhauserhaus, one of the oldest town houses in the old town, built around the year 1300. Mozart’s sister Nannerl once lived in the same building. The museum was founded in 2017 by Heinz R. Böhme, a doctor and collector who lost family members in the Holocaust. His collection began in 1984 with the rediscovery of Ludwig Jonas, a doctor-turned-artist who fled to France and then Palestine. Böhme gathered nearly 700 works by artists born around the turn of the 20th century in central Europe. Visitors see two parts of the exhibition. One half shows representative works by the ‘Lost Generation’, explaining how their art was branded ‘degenerate’. The other half hosts changing special shows on themes such as exile or inner emigration. The building’s rooms allow about eighty paintings to be displayed at a time.