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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Städel Museum reopened to the public last weekend after 3 years of renovations and expansions by local Frankfurt firm, Schneider Schumacher. The renovation included an extension placed along the ...
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 considering the canon of art history, West German figurative painting from the 1980s probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind. The Städel Museum in Frankfurt, however, aims to shed new ...
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 ...