26.04.2024 – 08.09.2024
With the founding of the first Austrian photography museum in Bad Ischl, Hans Frank realized his visionary ideas by continuously enriching an exquisite collection, which today forms the cornerstone of Upper Austria’s historical photography collection. The inauguration of the Hans Frank Gallery on the ground floor of the Francisco Carolinum not only pays tribute to Hans Frank, but also provides the photographic collection of Upper Austria with a striking stage on which to present itself to the public in the future.
The opening exhibition is dedicated to the internationally outstanding collection of autochromes and early forms of transparent colour light images. With the market launch of autochromes in 1907, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière marked a significant milestone with a technically advanced method based on additive colour mixing and an emulsion of tiny, coloured potato starch grains on glass plates, paving the way from monochrome to colour photography. The selection of around 50 objects for this exhibition is generated from the photographic collection of the province of Upper Austria, which comprises around 1,000 early transmitted light colour images. These include unique major works by the Lumière brothers and other pioneers of colour photography.
AUTOCHROME – The fascination of colour: A look back at the pioneering days of colour photography
26.04.2024 – 08.09.2024
Francisco Carolinum Linz
Museumsstraße 14
4020 Linz
www.ooekultur.at
