Students draw in the Wachau

To broaden our perspectives on traffic routes, we invited students from the University of Arts Linz and landscape architecture students from BOKU University to draw together in the Wachau region. Focusing on the Wachau road, we travelled by bus from Melk to Krems, stopping at selected stations. The western entrance at Emmersdorf was drawn as well as the road design in St. Michael. With the drawing excursion we followed in the footsteps of the Wachau painters, who have travelled to Wachau since the 19th century and depicted it artistically. We also positioned ourselves at the ‘painter’s corner’ on the Danube promenade to capture the old town of Dürnstein and the busy traffic of tourists and cyclists on the towpath. In the studio of Iris Andraschek and Hubert Lobnig we then reflected with the students on their drawings, impressions and observations.