Anton-Kolig Street

In the Aigen district of Salzburg, the approximately 50 meter long street was named after the Expressionist Anton Kolig in 1969. Kolig, born in 1886 in the then Moravia, studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna and at the Akademie der bildenden Künste. He presented his first works to the public in 1911. After World War I, he rose to become a significant artist; thus, he was called upon in 1926 and 1927 to design Gobelins and Mosaics for the Salzburg Festival House. Likewise, his frescoes hung in the Salzburg Landhaus. After the "Anschluss," however, these were destroyed. Many galleries removed his works from their inventory, and the mosaic in the Festival House was also destroyed. Anton Kolig was forcibly retired in 1943 and spent the last years of the war in the Carinthian municipality of Nötsch, where he died in 1950.