From left: OCist. Father Andreas Pirngruber; Claudia Kubelka, Mayor from Annaberg Claudia Kubelka; bass-baritone Florian Pejrimovsky; curator Traude Moser; Sandra B\u00f6hmwalder, member of the Federal Austrian parliament; organist Daniel Fischer; emer. Univ.-Prof. Wolfgang Kubelka, member of the Tannberg Association; Photo credit: ernst.leitner@gul.at, AERS.<\/p>\n
April 2, 2023 \u2013 During a musical devotion, the municipality of Annaberg, Lower Austria, celebrated the 100-year anniversary in memory of professor Sepp Gamsj\u00e4ger. The commemoration took place in the local parish church Annaberg during the catholic easter celebrations. The focus was the presentation of the famous paintings \u201cAnnaberger Way of the Cross\u201d with 14 stations. Gamsj\u00e4ger created fifty years ago 14 monotype images representing the stations of the passion of Jesus Christ. It is a somewhat different kind of \u201cLenten veil\u201d. Curator Traude Moser was explaining the painting technique in more detail: \u201cThey were painted on glass plates and pressed onto paper while still wet. In this monotype process, the violet, red and black colors flow into each other.\u201d The essentials can be seen in the images, but the details are left to the individual imagination. This means that each of the images is unique. The original pictures were burned onto metal plates and set up in 14 picture frames along the Via Sacra pilgrimage way in the direction of Mariazell.<\/p>\n
Prof. Sepp Gamsj\u00e4ger (1923-1991):
From a simple lumberjack, he developed into an excellent graphic artist.\u201d He was known far beyond Austria as a portraitist and watercolor painter. He was a teacher in his painting school, the \u201cGamsburg\u201d in Annaberg, where he worked until his death in 1991. For his art, Gamsj\u00e4ger received the honorary cross for art and science as well as the gold medal for services to the state of Lower Austria in addition to the title of professor.<\/p>\n