Städel
The Städel Museum, August 2022
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Established1817 (1817)
LocationSchaumainkai 63, Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Coordinates50°06′12″N 8°40′26″E / 50.10322°N 8.67388°E / 50.10322; 8.67388
TypeArt museum
Key holdingsLucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Max Beckmann, Gerhard Richter
Collections
  • Old Masters
  • Modern Art
  • Contemporary Art
  • Department of Prints and Drawings
  • Photography
Collection size
  • 3,100 paintings
  • 660 sculptures
  • 4,600 photographs
  • 100,000 drawings and prints[1]
Visitors
  • 390,532 (2017)[2]
  • 390,593 (2018)[2]
  • 580.137 (2019)[2]
  • 318,732 (2020)[2]
  • 161,414 (2021)[2]
  • 330,005 (2022)[3]
  • 287,126 (2023)[4]
  • 388,274 (2024)[5]
FounderJohann Friedrich Städel
DirectorPhilipp Demandt
Architects
  • Oskar Sommer (1878)
  • Johannes Krahn (rebuild 1966)
  • Gustav Peichl (extension building 1990)
  • Schneider+Schumacher (extension 2012)
Employees109 (2021)[2]
Public transit access
  • Schweizer Platz (10 min)
  • 15, 16 Otto-Hahn-Platz (4 min)
Websitewww.staedelmuseum.de

The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The museum is located at the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.[6][7] It has around 7,000 m2 (75,000 ft2) of display and a library of 115,000 books.[8]

In 2012, the Städel was honoured as Museum of the Year by the German art critics association AICA.[9][10] In the same year the museum recorded the highest attendance figures in its history, of 447,395 visitors.[11] In 2020 the museum had 318,732 visitors, down 45 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ranked 71st on the list of most-visited art museums in 2020.[12]

History

19th century

The Städel was founded in 1817,[13] and is one of the oldest museums in Frankfurt. The founding followed a bequest by the Frankfurt banker and art patron Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816), who left his house, art collection and fortune with the request in his will that the institute be set up.[14][15][16] In the early years, Städel's former living quarters at Frankfurt's Roßmarkt were used to present his collection.[a][19] The collection received its first exhibition building at the Neue Mainzer Straße in 1833.[b][20][21]

19th century building

In 1878, a new museum building, in the Neo-Renaissance style,[22] was erected by Oskar Sommer on Schaumainkai, a street along the south side of the river Main.[23]

20th century

In 1937, 77 paintings and 700 prints were confiscated from the museum when the National Socialists declared them "degenerate art".[24]

In 1939, the collection of the Städel Museum was removed to avoid destruction from the Allied bombings, and the collection was stored in the Schloss Rossbach, a castle owned by the Baron Thüngen near Bad Brückenau in Bavaria. There, the museum's paintings and library were discovered by Lt. Thomas Carr Howe, USN, of the American Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives program.[25]

Renovations and extensions

The gallery was substantially damaged by air raids in World War II, it was rebuilt in 1966 following a design by the Frankfurt architect Johannes Krahn.[26] An expansion building for the display of 20th-century work and special exhibits was erected in 1990, designed by the Austrian architect Gustav Peichl.[27][28] Small structural changes and renovations took place from 1997 to 1999.[29]

An underground wing for the presentation of contemporary art was designed by the Frankfurt architectural firm Schneider+Schumacher and opened in February 2012. This was the largest extension in the museum's history, increasing its total display area from 4,000 m2 (43,000 ft2) to 7,000 m2 (75,000 ft2).[30][31][32]

Digital expansion

The Städel has been significantly enlarging its activities and outreach through a major digital expansion on the occasion of its 200-year anniversary in 2017.[33] An exhibition 'digitorial' and free WiFi access are already available to visitors throughout the museum and its grounds. The museum offers to visitors a Städel app, the possibility of listening to audio guides on their own devices, and a new 'cabinet of digital curiosities'. Around its 200-year anniversary, several projects were in development, including an online exhibition platform; educational computer games for children; online art-history courses and a digital art book.[34][35]

Creative commons

The Städel Museum made more than 22,000 works in its Digital Collection available for free downloading under the Creative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0.[36][37]

Collection

The Städel has European paintings from seven centuries, beginning with the early 14th century, moving into Late Gothic, the Renaissance, Baroque, and into the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.[38] The large collection of prints and drawings is not on permanent display and occupies the first floor of the museum. Works on paper not on display can be viewed by appointment.[39]

The gallery has a conservation department that performs conservation and restoration work on the collection.[40]

Temporary exhibitions

Most visited exhibitions:[41]

Recent exhibitions:

Selected works

The museum also features works by the 20th-century German artist Max Beckmann, who taught at the Städelschule.[44]

Directors

The directors of the Städel Museum:[45]

See also

Literature

Notes

  1. 1782–1833: Zum Goldenen Bären, Roßmarkt 18.[17][18]
  2. 1833–1878: Haus Vrints-Treuenfeld, Neue Mainzer Straße Nr. 47–49.[18]

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