Liebieghaus

The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in Frankfurt, Germany. It contains a sculpture museum, the Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, which is part of the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. Max Hollein (b. 1969, Vienna) has been the director of the Städel Museum since January 2006.

Abbot Saint, unknown artist
show depot
St Mary Magdalene, Hans Multscher
Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther.
The Liebieghaus.
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The Liebieghaus is one of the Museums of the Museumsufer, Frankfurt am Main
South Bank
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Icon Museum (de) (Museum of Orthodox sacred Art)
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Portikus (Exhibition hall for contemporary art)
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Museum Angewandte Kunst (Applied Arts)
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Museum der Weltkulturen (Ethnological Museum)
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Deutsches Filmmuseum (de) (German Film Museum)
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German Architecture Museum
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Museum für Kommunikation
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Städel (Fine Arts Museum)
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Liebieghaus (Classical sculture collection)
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Museum Giersch (Art and culture of Rhine-Main)
North Bank
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Jewish Museum Frankfurt
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Frankfurt Archaeological Museum (de)
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Historical Museum, Frankfurt
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Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Art exhibition venue)
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Museum für Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Museum)
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Frankfurter Judengasse Museum (Preserved foundations from the Ghetto)

History

The Liebieghaus was built in 1896, in a palatial, Historicist style, as a retirement home for the Bohemian textile manufacturer Baron Heinrich von Liebieg (1839–1904). The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection.[1]

A renovation was completed in October 2009. This included adding a publicly accessible "Open Depot", making it possible for the first time to view certain parts of the collection that are not in the permanent exhibition.[1]

Collection

The museum includes ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian sculpture, as well as Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and Classicist pieces, and works from the Far East.[2][3] The collection was built up mostly through endowments and international purchases, and is universal in scope, with no particular link to the art or history of Frankfurt.

The building stands on the Schaumainkai, in a garden in which a number of sculptures are also on display, including a replica of Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther. The original, which was acquired by the banker Simon Moritz von Bethmann in 1810, is currently in the depot.

Other major exhibits include:[4][5]

Exhibitions (temporary)
  • 2012: From June 20 to September 23, 2012, Jeff Koons. The Sculptor (at the Liebieghaus)
  • 2011/12: From October 27, 2011 to March 4, 2012, Niclaus Gerhaert. The Medieval Sculptor

See also

Notes
  1. The Liebieghaus / History (in English)
  2. Artworks (in English)
  3. Sahure: Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Marius Becker, ArtDaily. (in English)
  4. Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
  5. Germany – Tourist Guide. Michelin et Cie. Watford (UK) / Clermont-Ferrand (France), 1996. ISBN 2-06-150402-7. ISSN 0763-1383. (in English)

Further reading
  • Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt: Architekturführer Frankfurt am Main. Third edition. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-496-01236-6. (in German)
  • Vinzenz Brinkmann, Maraike Bückling, Stefan Roller: Meisterwerke im Liebieghaus. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung. Petersberg, Imhof, 2008. ISBN 978-3-86568-364-9. (in German)

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