Live and dwell with art

Kitzbühel | Issue 51 | summer 2022

Stephanie Gräfin Bruges von Pfuel spent her youth in Tüssling, Bavaria. Her mother was deeply interested in music and the visual arts, which is why she took daughter Stephanie so often on museum visits in Munich, and also to foreign countries. And thus did Stephanie Gräfin Bruges von Pfuel amplify and evolve her interest in art from the very earliest age. During the renovation of Schloss Tüssling she was able to instil her passionate love of contemporary art into the building plan. It was important to her that history and the present era were brought together under the mantle of art, since art was such an integral part of her own personal history: she both sponsors and collects it.

At Schloss Tüssling in her home town of Munich, on the other hand, she houses many different types of art, including old works which she blends with modern ones. It’s fascinating that each one of the works of art was acquired for a specific spot in her home, and whenever she walks by the one or the other, she is overcome with a feeling of happiness and inspiration. It was a matter of intense interest to Stephanie Gräfin Bruges von Pfuel to interconnect her two towns of residence, Munich and Kitzbühel. She succeeded in doing this by getting photographic artist Michael von Hassel to photograph her forest in Tüssling/Munich and then hanging precisely that picture on a large wall in her home in Kitzbühel. That way, she always feels at home.