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A Great Sunday Spot in Frankfurt: Städel Museum 🎨⛪
EthanEthan
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In 1939, the collection was moved out of Frankfurt to protect it from damage in World War II. The collection of the Städel Museum was removed from the museum 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. Although the Baron von Thüngen and his wife were uncooperative with the Americans, Frau Dr. Holzinger, a licensed physician and the Swiss wife of the Städel Museum director, was present at the site and assisted with the cataloging and the removal of the items to the Munich Central Collecting Point. Lt. Howe said, “The first room to be inspected was a library adjoining the sitting room in which we had been waiting. Here we found a quantity of excellent French Impressionist paintings, all from the permanent collection of the Städel Museum, and a considerable number of fine Old Master drawings. Most of these were likewise the property of the museum, but a few – I remember one superb Rembrandt sketch – appeared to have come from Switzerland. Those would, of course, have to be looked into later, to determine their exact origin and how they came to be on loan to the museum. But for the moment we were concerned primarily with storage conditions and the problem of security. In another room we found an enormous collection of books, the library of one of the Frankfurt museums. In a third we encountered an array of medieval sculpture – saints all sizes and description, some of carved wood, others of stone, plain or polychromed. These too, were of museum origin. The last storage room was below ground, a vast, cavernous chamber beneath the house. Here was row upon row of pictures, stacked in two tiers down the center of the room and also along two sides. From what we could make of them in the poor light, they were not of high quality. During the summer months they would be alright in the underground room, but we thought the place would be very damp in the winter. Frau Holzinger assured us that this was so and that the pictures should be removed before the bad weather set in.”
Vỹ NguyễnVỹ Nguyễn
10
Spent 5 hours admiring all the art collections. Really mesmerized by the work. View from the terrace is great. The lockers , many don't work and I think it's so silly that they charge so much in the entrance ticket and still don't provide facility to store our backpacks without struggling with 1_2 euro coins. They don't take notes not cards. So a kind soul saw our plight and kindly gave us coins, which ideally there museum should have given. The rest rooms are not accessible by left it escalators. WE need to walk up and down narrow staircase. Gift shop is very good. Lots of space given for modern art on the basement.. Felt that the theme was good and relevant but the collection showed art pieces with not much depth. I am sure there is much more talent than this. The collection of split across levels after a tired walk we found a lift. But my God was had to wait for so long. Then the life to didn't go to the floor that we wanted to. WWE ended up a level of two below and had to walk up double your disyance. Signages for collections and floor numbers are not present in the lift it staircase. The whole building needs to be made accessible better by lifts that actually work and rooms sequentially organized. It was like maze. The staff are not so much into art nor do they guide. They are more like security and look on every visitor with suspicion when we are merely asking to find the famous paintings mentioned in the pamphlet. The naming of levels floors is very confusing with letters and numbers!!
Sri SriSri Sri
00
Sumptuous art gallery with a high concentration of masterpieces. Good text about the paintings in German and English. When I was a teenager I had a copy of Goethe's Italian Journey with the Tischbein portrait on the cover, so it was great to see that. Also you can understand why the penguin books editor cropped the image because Goethe's body is weirdly distended, no wonder Tischbein painted a blanket over him. However, I'd travelled to the museum to see their Vermeer, which is the last one in Europe that I haven't seen. But that section of the old masters gallery was closed, seemingly without notification. When I was in the Herzog Anton Ulrich museum half of their collection was closed too but they did discount the price by two euro and I got to see their Vermeer anyway. The staedel museum has a nice expensive looking website so is it too much to ask for some information about gallery closures? Or maybe rehang the notable works in the space available?
Tom HutchinsonTom Hutchinson
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You will find classical paintings on the first floor from the 14th Century on wards. The captions under the paintings are both in German and English. There were books on the viewing sofas giving details of the paintings but all in German. It would be nice if the administration also kept a couple of books in English because I would have loved to read details about the beautiful paintings. I visited in August and the first floor was rather warm which is not an issue for me but I hope that the variation in temperature does not damage the artwork . The basement (fully air conditioned) has modern art and some of the exhibits were very interesting. However I just did not understand a few of the exhibits. There was a canvas painted fully black, a room with arranged plastic debris and another exhibit with industrial carpets piled up. At times I think that the modern artists are just trolling their audience. This is a must see art museum if you visit Frankfurt.
beamishwabebeamishwabe
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I've went to watch the Vasarely special exhibition and was delighted at the chance to get acquainted with the Lotte Laserstein special exhibition, which was small but very nice. I think it's important to have exhibitions like this one, which gives a stage to artist whose recognition got lost due to such unfortunate circumstances. The Vasarely exhibition was larger and broader, nicely curated, a bit overly filled with groups of children at the daytime. I found the collection exhibition of modern art, after 1945, downstairs, somewhat disappointing, though. The part of art up to 1945 in.the middle floor had several highlights I found more interesting - I didn't have time to visit the old masters upper floor. All exhibitions r included in the price of 14,00€ which is OK (on WE it's 16,00€) One distressing thing is that it is easy to get confused and not find the way out, once u r at the special exhibition space upstairs to the side...
Amit EpsteinAmit Epstein
10
Nearby Attractions Of Städel Museum
Römerberg
Iron Footbridge
Nizza
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Goethe House
German Film Museum
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Hotel Motel One Frankfurt-Römer
Toyoko Inn Frankfurt Central Station
Historical Museum Frankfurt
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Nearby Restaurants Of Städel Museum
Adolf Wagner
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Adolf Wagner
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o'reilly's Irish pubs
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Zum Gemalten Haus
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Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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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 Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.
attractions: Römerberg, Iron Footbridge, Nizza, Frankfurt (Main) Hbf, Goethe House, German Film Museum, Frankfurter Römer, Hotel Motel One Frankfurt-Römer, Toyoko Inn Frankfurt Central Station, Historical Museum Frankfurt, restaurants: Adolf Wagner, o'reilly's Irish pubs, What's Beef, Zum Gemalten Haus, Der Fette Bulle, Im Herzen Afrikas, Chicago Meatpackers, Restaurant Klosterhof, MainNizza, eatDOORI Indian Restaurant
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