In 1921, the art collector Franz Fromm, who came from the Göttingen region, purchased Villa Freischütz. Most of his wealth derived from the fortune of his wife, Luisa Hilliger Y Vernal. She had been born in Peru as the daughter of the nitrate millionaire Johann Georg Christian Hilliger. So far, so good. Were it not […]
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The Euregio Museum Year 2021 was dedicated to the theme “Transport–Transit–Mobility.” In our project proposal at the time, we wrote: The project “The Ethiopian Cloak” uses a singular object to exemplify the spatial movement of museum artifacts. (…) Objects are not as “immobile” as they seem. Now, the ceremonial cloak has indeed set off on […]
Gerade sind wir, Herta Waldner und Ariane Karbe, von der EMYA Konferenz und Preisverleihung in Portimão zurückgekehrt. Leider ohne Preis, aber reich beschenkt mit wertvollen Kontakten, inspirierenden Eindrücken und grossartigem Zuspruch für unsere Arbeit. Eine Kollegin aus Deutschland sagte beim Abschied, die Villa Freischütz sei die Gewinnerin der Herzen. Welche Auszeichnung könnte uns glücklicher machen? […]
We at the House Museum Villa Freischütz are happy and proud to have been nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award 2024. Together with the Museo Giovanni Poleni in Padua, we are one of only two Italian museums that can hope to win the prestigious award this year, which is regarded as the […]
Gemälde von Ellen Tornquist im Palais Mamming Museum in Meran zu sehen Seit dem 8. März sind vier Gemälde der Künstlerin Ellen Tornquist aus unserer Sammlung in der Ausstellung Women in Art – Künstlerinnen in Meran im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert zu bewundern. Es ist uns eine große Freude, dass das Werk der aus Hamburg […]
Villa Freischütz dedicates the second part of the exhibition series “Eyes open! Villa Freischütz and its artists” to the German impressionist Georg Greve-Lindau. After the First World War he lost touch with the top of the art scene, but he remained productive until his old age and left his mark also in Merano. The show […]
It’s half time for the exhibition THE ETHIOPIAN CLOAK. It’s time to open the discussion, also towards Ethiopia. What do you think: should the cloak go back to Ethiopia? General Enea Navarini brought it from the Italo-Abyssinian war to Villa Freischütz in 1938. We do not (yet) know the exact circumstances: was the cloak a […]
Wir sind stolz, unseren ersten Podcast präsentieren zu können, noch dazu zu so einem wichtigen und spannenden Thema. Begleitend zu unserer Ausstellung DER ÄTHIOPISCHE MANTEL geht der Podcast der Frage nach, wie das Prunkgewand in die Sammlung der Villa Freischütz gelangt ist – und ob es nach Äthiopien zurückkehren sollte. Auf unserer Erkundungsreise suchen wir […]
With our current project, we are getting involved in the decolonisation debate that is currently stirring the museum landscape. We are researching the history of an object that came into the collection of Villa Freischütz from Africa. It is a magnificently embroidered coat from Ethiopia. We try to reconstruct the journey of the coat and […]