Bazaar Mosaic

The artist Maria Buchböck (10 December 1925 – 15 August 2015) created this mosaic on the house Kurhausstrasse 10 (south wall) in 1968. It depicts the salt trade in earlier times, and it represents the trading done along Kurhausstrasse in former times.

The site where the building at Kurhausstrasse 10 was built is where the bazaar was. The bazaar and the other shops to the left and right of the Kurhausstrasse, which dates back to around 1870, were demolished due to dilapidation.

In 1961, the Municipal Council of Bad Ischl decided to hand over the building site created by the demolition to Construction and Settlement Cooperative (Bau- und Siedlungsgenossenschaft) a non-profit organization, for them to construct a large residential building, which was built in 1967/68.

It was common back then to commission a local artist with a work for a new building.

Local water colourist Maria Buchböck, who also created mosaics, was chosen because of her sense of loving detail, and she was in great demand in Bad Ischl. Some of her other, later mosaics including a mosaic in the lobby of the elementary school in Pfandl (1972) and the Traunreiter mosaic in Pfarrgasse (1974).

See also: Guide to the Cemetery of Bad Ischl - Buchböck