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Swimming in the clean healthy lake, sailing( two sailing schools for all ages), windsurfing, diving (diving schools), para-sailing, tennis, horse riding ( two riding schools), golf( two golf courses), bicycling , and of course walking and guided touring in the beautiful mountains. Boat trips day and night on our excursion pleasure boats. For children there is a full programme "Attersee children's paradise".
There are summer festivals in the whole region like The "Attergauer Kulturesommer", Attersee Klassic, Concerts in Castle Kammer (a picturesque castle on the lake), in Castle Kogl, in Schörfling in Steinbach and in other surrounding villages and Operettas in Bad Ischl.
Of course Salzburg - home of the famous Festival - is only forty minutes drive on the motorway.
Everybody is familiar with the fascinating paintings of Gustav Klimt (1862 - 1918). Numerous panels provide information about Gustav Klimt's relationship with the region and guide you around the lake to the villages, where the Viennese art nouveau painter spent many summers.
Klimt's Technique
1897 he founded the Vienna "Sezession", becoming its first president until 1905. Klimt's style was a compelling blend of Art Nouveau and Symbolist elements towards the turn of the century. His paintings were the core of Viennese art.
Further artists who were inspired by the idyllic landscape are:
Gustv Mahler composed in the summers of 1893-96 in Steinbach, in the "Komponierhäuschen" which had been specially built for him. Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolff, as well as the writers Arthur Schnitzler and Hugo von Hoffmansthal were frequent visitors there.
In modern times the painter Ludwig Attersee adopted his artist's name to express his affection of the area. The pianist Friedrich Gulda as well as the composers Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Franz Wülser Möst live in this area.
For the aspiring artist there are painting classes , held by Professor Hohenwallner.
