Innsbrucker Hofgarten

About this audio guide

This guide to the Hofgarten in Innsbruck follows the small fountain by the music pavilion back to the man who carved it, South Tyrolean sculptor Albin Lanner, and to the other commission he took on for the city just a few years earlier. It moves between nineteen forty and nineteen forty-eight, between a Nazi-era wedding hall in the Golden Roof and a postwar artists' association that took over the garden's own pavilion. Listen for how a city decides which pieces of its art get quietly kept.