08.11.2025 – 27.04.2026
Central Europe in turmoil: between 1524 and 1526, the common people rose up against the nobility and clergy: hundreds of thousands of peasants, but also townspeople, craftsmen and miners fought for their traditional rights, religious freedoms and a fairer distribution of wealth and natural resources. In May 1525, the uprising also spread to the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg, bringing it to the brink of destruction. The “German Peasants” War’, as later generations called it, was brutally suppressed in many places. But the memory of the uprising of the “common man” against the authorities remained alive. The guest exhibition of the Salzburg Museum in the DomQuartier, curated by Cornelia Mathe and Andreas Zechner, is dedicated to the question of how the Peasants’ War was interpreted in art and literature in later eras – and how authoritarian regimes in the 20th century misused it for their propaganda. Starting with the Salzburg Peasants’ War of 1525/26, the exhibition spans the arc to the present day and shows how artists have repeatedly reinterpreted the theme in times of social and political upheaval.
Heroic and Transfigured – The Peasants’ War Reflected in Art and Dictatorship
08.11.2025 – 27.04.2026
DomQuartier Salzburg
Residenzplatz 1/Domplatz 1a
5020 Salzburg
www.domquartier.at
