Culture in Kitzbühel

The Walentowski Galleries are represented in Kitzbühel as well as in Jochberg and present here selected works of classical modern art, pop art as well as modern art by nationally and internationally sought-after artists. Since 2017, visitors have been able to admire and purchase artworks by Michel Friess, Peter Linnenbrink, Volker Kühn, Axel Crieger, Elvira Bach as well as Udo Lindenberg and Otto Walkes in Kitzbühel's Vorderstadt. Since December 2018, Team Kitzbühel has also been welcoming guests in a larger location, the Kempinski Hotel Das Tirol in Jochberg.

The Stadtgalerie Kitz Art in Kitzbühel has been run by the "Kunst und Kulturverein Kitz Art Innovation" since 2003 and has since developed into an important hub for contemporary art in Tyrol. By presenting established and emerging artists, the gallery has succeeded in establishing a lively platform for them in recent years. The gallery is available to regional and international artists as a showroom, where the presentation changes monthly. In addition to the in-house activities, exhibitions in cooperation with international galleries and participation in renowned art fairs are organized for artists we represent.

Master classes for piano and organ in Kitzbühel from 23rd to 30th july 2023. The combination of organ and piano, as well as master class and competition is special. Organs by Egedacher, Metzler, Pirchner and Klais will be available as teaching and practice instruments. In addition, piano lessons/technical studies for organists on the piano will be given. At the end of the course there will be a concert for selected participants, at which four prizes will be awarded in memory of Maria Hofer. The participants will have the opportunity to get to know and enjoy the beautiful landscape of the Kitzbühel Alps during a hiking tour.

This year, 707 students from Jochberg, Aurach, Kitzbühel, Reith, Kirchberg and Aschau are being taught by 31 teachers at the Landesmusikschule Kitzbühel. The favorites among the students are piano, followed by guitar, voice & singing and early music education. Music school director Peter Gasteiger and the structurally successful concept of the music school, which opened in 2014, are also convincing other communities - the architecture and concept of the Landesmusikschule Kitzbühel are considered exemplary.

The Musikkapelle Reith bei Kitzbühel currently has 46 active musicians, two sutlers and eleven young musicians in training. The exact founding year of the music band Reith is not ascertainable, because at the beginning of the 19th century in many communities already so-called "music bands" existed, which moved out at processions or on high holidays, but otherwise no regular music operation was maintained. On December 12, 1953 a founding meeting took place at the "Reitherwirt", where the musicians were united to form a "Musikverein Reith" with proper statutes. In 1961, the current costume was purchased and the first foreign guest performance in Baisingen (FRG) was completed.

The Museum Kitzbühel - Alfons Walde Collection is located in two of the oldest historic buildings in the town and provides a unique insight into the history and culture of the town and region of Kitzbühel. Selected exhibits as well as film and sound installations lead from Bronze Age mining around 1000 B.C. to the history of the town and winter sports with Toni Sailer and the legendary "Kitzbühel Ski Miracle Team" of the 1950s. The museum's permanent display collection focuses on Alfons Walde. On the third floor and attic, the work of the Kitzbühel painter is comprehensively presented with 60 paintings as well as over 100 graphics, drawings, photographs and prints. Find out more about selected events & program highlights in 2023 at Museum Kitzbühel.

The Krampusmuseum Kitzbühel cultivates the regional Krampus tradition and shows genuine customs. The museum is open since April 2010, the premises are provided by the city of Kitzbühel. After extensive joint work by the Ruat`n Pass Kitzbühel, more and more rooms are being developed for the exhibition of the robes, masks - which are financed by voluntary donations for admission as well as activities of the association. It is a concern of the association to always have new impressions for the visitors_innen and to take away the fear from those who are a little afraid.

The Heimatbühne Kitzbühel is an association with currently about 40 members, who engage themselves with much joy and passion. The Heimatbühne Kitzbühel has been officially registered as an association since 1959, but the beginnings of theater in the Gamsstadt go back much further. As early as the 16th century, the first Passion Plays took place in Kitzbühel and since the 19th century, theater has been performed here regularly, with changing ensemble names. The stage of the Kolpinghaus Kitzbühel has been the home of the Heimatbühne since 1949.

KleinKUNST has existed in KITZbühel for over 30 years. The small group around Peggo Jöchl, Pauli Huter, Joe Daxer, Joe Obermoser, Robert Hölzl and Walter Rief organizes cabaret evenings about once a month. The program is varied, we are happy about promising young artists as well as regularly returning stars. The focus is on cabaret, sometimes there are also exquisite concerts. The home of KleinKUNST is the Café Praxmair in Kitzbühel. The performances are for Kitzbühel and Kitzbühel residents.

On what is probably one of the most visited mountains at 1,665 m above sea level, the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, one of the highlights of the 750th anniversary celebration of the town of Kitzbühel will also take place. For only the fourth time in the history of the Kitzbühel Ski Club, the medals of the K.S.C. athletes will be presented to the public. And no more attractive place could be imagined than the famous start house at the beginning of the "Streif", the downhill race course of the International Hahnenkamm Races.

The church, located on the church hill at the foot of the Lebenberg, was consecrated in 1506 and is the work of Stefan Krumenauer, one of the most important late Gothic master builders in the Upper Bavarian-Salzburg region. Inside, artistic styles from a total of seven centuries unite to form a harmonious whole. The high altar of the parish church is a monumental testimony to Kitzbühel's independent artistic position in sculpture and painting around 1650. The tomb of the Kupferschmid family, located under the longahus walls, is the only monument of the bourgeois Renaissance that has been preserved in Kitzbühel. Before leaving the church, it is recommended to visit the Rose Chapel, named after its patroness, which adjoins the choir to the south. With the Madonna and Child on display and the baptismal font, it holds two witnesses to its construction in the Gothic period.

The Liebfrauenkirche on the church hill outside the historic city center was built in the 14th century as a two-story chapel, the basement of which functioned as an ossuary. It did not receive its characteristic 48-meter-high, massive tower until the years 1566 to 1569 - the representative church bell first delivered proved too large for the slender parish church tower inherited from the predecessor church. The bell provided the reason to build a new tower decades later. The altarpiece is a copy, made around 1630, of the famous image of Maria Hilf by Lucas Cranach, which is in Innsbruck Cathedral. Behind the Liebfrauenkriche, in front of the Mesnerstadl, there is a unique view of churches, the mountain cemetery and parts of the old town. The Hahnenkamm and the Hausberg ridge can also be seen.

In the immediate vicinity of the district headquarters, in the row of houses situated between the Vorderstadt and Hinterstadt, lies the Katharinenkirche - a fine example of High Gothic architecture in Tyrol. The church, consecrated in 1365, was not a parish church at any time, but has always served as a small town church located within the walls, whose tower housed the town and fire guard for a long time. In the tower is installed the carillon that sounds daily at 11 am and at 5 pm. At the back of the church, in the front part of the town, there is a fountain from around 1600 with a marble stone, a coat of arms bowl and a wrought iron grate.