The Städel Museum with Städel Garden, October 2014
TheStädel, officially theStädelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is anart museum inFrankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The museum is located at theMuseumsufer on theSachsenhausen bank of theRiver Main. The Städel Museum owns 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 4,600 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.[5][6] It has around 7,000 m2 (75,000 sq ft) of display and a library of 115,000 books.[7]
In 2012, the Städel was honoured asMuseum of the Year [de] by the German art critics associationAICA.[8][9] In the same year the museum recorded the highest attendance figures in its history, of 447,395 visitors.[10] In 2020 the museum had 318,732 visitors, down 45 percent from 2019, due to theCOVID-19 pandemic. It ranked 71st on thelist of most-visited art museums in 2020.[11]
The Städel was founded in 1817,[12] and is one of the oldest museums in Frankfurt. The founding followed a bequest by the Frankfurt banker and art patronJohann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816), who left his house, art collection and fortune with the request in his will that the institute be set up.[13][14][15] In the early years, Städel's former living quarters at Frankfurt'sRoßmarkt [de] were used to present his collection.[a][18] The collection received its first exhibition building at theNeue Mainzer Straße [de] in 1833.[b][19][20]
In 1939, the collection of the Städel Museum was removed to avoid destruction from the Allied bombings, and the collection was stored in theSchloss Rossbach, a castle owned by the Baron Thüngen nearBad Brückenau in Bavaria. There, the museum's paintings and library were discovered by Lt.Thomas Carr Howe, USN, of the AmericanMonuments, Fine Arts and Archives program.[24]
The gallery was substantially damaged byair raids in World War II, it was rebuilt in 1966 following a design by the Frankfurt architectJohannes Krahn.[25] An expansion building for the display of 20th-century work and special exhibits was erected in 1990, designed by the Austrian architectGustav Peichl.[26][27] Small structural changes and renovations took place from 1997 to 1999.[28]
The largest extension in the history of the museum to 7,000 m2 (75,000 sq ft) intended for the presentation of contemporary art was designed by the Frankfurt architectural firmSchneider+Schumacher [de] and opened in February 2012.[29][30][31]
The Städel has been significantly enlarging its activities and outreach through a major digital expansion on the occasion of its 200-year anniversary in 2015.[32] Already available to visitors is an exhibition 'digitorial' and free access to WiFi 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'. Several more projects are currently in development including an online exhibition platform; educational computer games for children; online art-history courses and a digital art book.[33][34]
The Städel Museum made more than 22,000 works in itsDigital Collection available for free downloading under theCreative Commons licence CC BY-SA 4.0.[35][36]
The Städel has European paintings from seven centuries, beginning with the early 14th century, moving intoLate Gothic, theRenaissance,Baroque, and into the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.[37] 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.[38]
The gallery has a conservation department that performs conservation and restoration work on the collection.[39]
Mongi-Vollmer, Eva; Städel Museum (2007).Meisterwerke im Städel Museum ausgewählte Werke aus der Sammlung des Städel Museums (in German). Frankfurt am Main.ISBN978-3-9809701-3-6.OCLC199141987.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Brinkmann, Bodo (1999).Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie Frankfurt a.M. (in German). München.ISBN978-3-7913-2204-9.OCLC237356740.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Brinkmann, Bodo; Kemperdick, Stephan; Städelsches Kunstinstitut (2005).Deutsche Gemälde im Städel 1500-1550 (in German). Mainz am Rhein: Von Zabern.ISBN3-8053-3350-1.OCLC60333359.
Brinkmann, Bodo; Sander, Jochen (1999).Deutsche Gemälde vor 1800 im Städel (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Blick in die Welt.ISBN3-88284-003-X.OCLC71547451.
Pollmer-Schmidt, Almut; Weber, Christiane; Wolf, Fabian; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main (2021).Deutsche Gemälde im Städel Museum 1550–1725 (in German). Berlin.ISBN978-3-422-98516-2.OCLC1285908347.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main; Engler, Martin; Hollein, Max (2012).Gegenwartskunst 1945-heute im Städel Museum (in German). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag.ISBN978-3-7757-3028-0.OCLC775065939.
Krämer, Felix; Hollein, Max; Grobien, Felicity; Lemke, Kristina; Oehsen, Kristine von; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main (2014).Lichtbilder : Fotografie im Städel Museum von den Anfängen bis 1960 = Photography at the Städel Museum from the beginnings to 1960. Frankfurt am Main.ISBN978-3-941399-39-6.OCLC890127728.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Meyer, Corina; Graf, Bernhard; Savoy, Bénédicte (2013).Die Geburt des bürgerlichen Kunstmuseums - Johann Friedrich Städel und sein Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt am Main (in German). Berlin.ISBN978-3-940939-26-5.OCLC868261686.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Gallwitz, Klaus; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main (1986).Besuche im Städel : Betrachtungen zu Bildern (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Insel.ISBN3-458-32639-1.OCLC30099262.
Fleckner, Uwe; Hollein, Max (2011).Museum im Widerspruch : das Städel und der Nationalsozialismus (in German). Berlin.ISBN978-3-05-006235-8.OCLC754580441.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main. Graphische Sammlung; Schütt, Jutta; Sonnabend, Martin; Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main (2008).Masterpieces of the Department of Prints and Drawings : drawings, watercolours and collages. Frankfurt am Main: Städel Museum.ISBN978-3-86568-177-5.OCLC226372377.
Schiffer, Helen (2012).Augen für die Kunst - das neue Städel Fotografien von Hellen Schiffer, die für die Architekten Schneider + Schumacher die Baustelle des Städel Museums Frankfurt fotografisch begleitet hat ; 10.02.2010 bis 15.01.2012 ; [anlässlich der Eröffnung des Erweiterungsbaus, Städel Museum Frankfurt am Main] (in German). Frankfurt, M.ISBN978-3-942921-54-1.OCLC794943152.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Gaehtgens, Thomas W.; Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie (2015).... zum Besten hiesiger Stadt und Bürgerschaft : 200 Jahre Städel; eine Festschrift (in German). München: Prestel.ISBN978-3-7913-5452-1.OCLC906052843.
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^Peichl, Gustav (1990).Städel : der Museums Erweiterungsbau von Gustav Peichl (in German). Salzburg: Residenz Verlag.ISBN3-7017-0671-9.OCLC25769108.
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