Salzburg Ansicht von Mönchsberg

Title

Salzburg Ansicht von Mönchsberg

Description

View show Monchsberg at Salzburg

ca. 1810

Artist

Kunike (1777-1838)

Adolf Kunike was a student at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in 1804. From 1808 to 1810 he studied history painting in Rome. In 1816 Kunike made contact with Alois Senefelder in Munich. In 1817 he opened his own lithographic institute in Vienna. Initially active as an artist herself, Kunike later limited herself to lithographic reproduction and the management of her own company, which became the foster home of artist's lithography, especially portraits and landscapes. He published series works, the most important of which are the two hundred and sixty Danube views according to the course of the Danube river from its origin to its outflow into the Black Sea ... which Kunike published in three editions in 1820, 1824, 1826. The majority of the pictures appearing in this work are by Jakob Alt.

Historical Description

The territory of the town has been continuously inhabited since the Neolithic period until today. Since the Battle of Mühldorf in 1322, the archbishopric was at enmity with the motherland Bavaria. As a result, Salzburg became an independent archbishopric in the Roman-German Empire. The economic prosperity of the city in the 15th century led to a self-confident bourgeoisie with increasing rights and duties. Archbishop Leonhard von Keutschach, who was economically very successful, ended this autonomy by force. A few years after Martin Luther's posting of the theses, the majority of the town's population was close to Protestantism; the unbending Protestants were then all expelled from the country by 1590. In 1525, rebellious squires and peasants laid siege to the fortress of Hohensalzburg, where Archbishop Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg had entrenched himself. Around 1600, the archdiocese was one of the richest principalities in the Roman-German Empire thanks to salt and gold mining. Paris von Lodron succeeded in keeping Salzburg out of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) through a clever policy of neutrality. The city was developed into one of the best fortified cities in Europe. In 1803, by order of Napoleon Bonaparte, Salzburg became a secularized electorate. In 1805, together with Berchtesgaden, it was annexed to the new Empire of Austria, and in 1810, it was reincorporated into the Kingdom of Bavaria. In 1816, with the Treaty of Munich, most of the province of Salzburg again fell to the Austrian Empire and thus under Habsburg rule.