Strindbergmuseum Saxen

In 1997 the museum was founded in 1997 by Friedrich Buchmayr and the community of Saxen.

In 1893 August Strindberg married the Austrian author and translator Frida Uhl, and between 1893 and 1896 he stayed several times with her and their child Kerstin in Saxen and Klam.

[1] The museum displays original letters and manuscripts, contemporary photographs and a piano purchased by August Strindberg himself.

In the surroundings of Klam August Strindberg found a lot of themes for his paintings, e.g. the cascades in the canyon between Klam and Saxen, as well as for his novels where he depicted for example the stone formations, the hammer mill and a pigsty in the canyon.

In the fifteenth chapter of his novel Inferno he describes his visions having experienced during a walk through the canyon.