The story of the tormented artist who shot himself in the very same cornfields that he painted so memorably was too good not be told. By the time the German art critic and novelist Julius Meier-Graefe ...
A monumental masterpiece by Dutch Golden Age painter Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) is about to undergo a major conservation effort. The painting, The Blinding of Samson (1636), is one of the ...
In 1815, the merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel of Frankfurt set forth in his will that his “sizeable collection of paintings, engravings and art objects [be dedicated], along with as much of ...
The Städel Museum’s new show of 120 graphic works by Honoré Daumier (1808-79), running until 12 May, is drawn entirely from the collection of the Frankfurt arts patron Hans-Jürgen Hellwig. Spanning ...
One of Germany's most important museums, the Städel in Frankfurt, opens its new underground wing on Wednesday. Frankfurt's financial world played a major role in financing the expansion, and the ...
When Frankfurt banker and spice dealer Johann Friedrich Staedel wrote his will in 1815, he included a clause that led to the creation of what was to become Germany’s oldest museum foundation. The ...
FROM 11 MARCH TO 21 JUNE 2015, FRANKFURT’S STÄDEL MUSEUM IS PRESENTING A MAJOR EXHIBITION on “Monet and the Birth of Impressionism”. One hundred masterworks from the world’s most prominent painting ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It is an indisputable fact of the museum world that if you program a blockbuster exhibition featuring the giants of French impressionism ...
Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. Almost 200 circular skylights arranged ...
In Spring 2008, schneider+schumacher won the international competition to extend the Städel Museum in Frankfurt/Main. By placing the new building below the museum’s garden, they almost doubled the ...
Slideshow: German architects Schneider+Schumacher have completed an underground gallery that creates a bulge beneath the lawn of the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt. Almost 200 circular skylights arranged ...