The Imhoff Gallery

On your way to St. Walburg on route 49, you will discover a charming place, the Imhoff museum, a municipal and provincial heritage site located eight kilometres south of St. Walburg in the Rural Municipality of Frenchman Butte. The property consists of a 3.2-hectare plot of land, including an artist's studio, farmhouse, barn and other outbuildings. The fact that Count Berthold Von Imhoff, an immigrant of German nobility born in 1864 who came to settle in St. Walburg, did much of his artistic work there makes the place so fascinating. He is famous for his exquisite religious murals and frescoes painted in the province's churches from 1913 to 1939. The artist transformed sparse walls and ceilings into works of art. Most of the time, he did not charge poor parishes for his materials or the labour cost. His studio has large windows that allowed him to paint in daylight to imagine better the colour that his canvases would hang in the natural light of the walls of the religious establishments for which they were intended. Tourists can enjoy a guided tour of the artist's studio and familiarize themselves with the tools used by the artist and the methods he employed. Visit the website for more information.