Vintage Photography Print by Lucca Chmel, The "Festspielhaus" in Salzburg, 1960s

Lucca Chmel (1911-1999): The "Festspielhaus" in Salzburg (Clemens Holzmeister, finished 1960).

Vintage print, gelatine silver, photographer's copyright stamp on reverse and labelled in pencil „Festspielhaus Salzburg“. Vintage photograph from circa 1960.
The photograph shows the famous Festspielhaus in Salzburg where Herbert von Karajan founded his famous festival, the Salzburger Festspiele.

Size: 19.2 x 15.8 cm / 7.55 x 6.22".

Please find our other vintage prints by Lucca Chmel listed here on 1stdibs as well.

Lucca Chmel (1911-1999) was an important Austrian Mid-Century photographer.
She achieved fame for her architecture photography and worked for the best
Mid-Century Austrian architects of the 1950s and 1960s such as Erich Boltenstern, Oswald Haerdtl and Roland Rainer.

The artist ran a large Photography Studio in Vienna and was hired by renown companies such as Thonet, Augarten, Kalmar and others.

Beside modern architecture she documented famous Austrian Buildings from the Baroque tot he Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) Era.

The main photography estate of Lucca Chmel today is in the Austrian National Library (Bildarchiv). For more informations about the artist, please see the German wikipedia-article and recent auction results.