Liebieghaus
The Liebieghaus in 2005
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Established1896 (1896)/1908 (1908)
LocationSchaumainkai 71, Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Coordinates50°06′07″N 8°40′18″E / 50.10194°N 8.67167°E / 50.10194; 8.67167
TypeSculpture museum
Key holdings
  • Rimini Altarpiece
  • Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther
Collections
  • Egyptian
  • Ancient Greek
  • Roman
  • Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance, Classical
  • Far East
Collection size3,000[1]
Visitors
  • 153,737 (2012)[1]
  • 41,979 (2017)[2]
  • 77,034 (2018)[2]
  • 50,820 (2019)[2]
  • 29,591 (2020)[2]
  • 15,371 (2021)[2]
  • 31,751 (2022)[3]
DirectorPhilipp Demandt
ArchitectLeonhard Romeis[4]
Public transit access
  • U1 U2 U3 U8 Schweizer Platz
  • 15, 16 Otto-Hahn-Platz
  • 16, 17, 21 Stresemannallee / Gartenstraße
Websitewww.liebieghaus.de

The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in Frankfurt, Germany. It contains a sculpture museum, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, which is part of the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. The collection comprises some 3,000 sculptures, spanning over 5,000 years of culture.

History

The Liebieghaus was built in 1896 based on designs by Leonhard Romeis, in a palatial, historicist style, as a retirement home for the Bohemian textile manufacturer Baron Heinrich von Liebieg [Wikidata] (1839–1904).[5] The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection.[1] The first director of the Skulpturensammlung der Städtischen Galerie Frankfurt was Georg Swarzenski [de].[6][7] In 1909, Paul Kanold [de] built a gallery wing extension to the villa, that was completed in 1990 by Scheffler and Warschauer.[8][9]

A renovation was completed in October 2009.[10] This included adding a publicly accessible "Open Depot" in the gallery wing basement, making it possible for the first time to view certain parts of the collection that are not in the permanent exhibition.[1] As of 2023, the exhibition space is 1,600 m2 (17,000 sq ft).[11]

Max Hollein was the director from January 2006 to 2016, followed by Philipp Demandt [de].[12] Since 2007, Vinzenz Brinkmann has headed the antiquities collection.[13] His main research areas are the colors of antiquity and ancient myths.[13] Since 2006, Stefan Roller has been the head of the Medieval Department.[14] His research focuses on Southern German sculpture of the Late Gothic period.[14]

Collection

The museum includes ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman sculpture,[a] as well as Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and Classicist pieces, and works from the Far East.[1] The collection was built up mostly through endowments and international purchases.[16]

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 in the depot.

Other major exhibits include:[17][18]

Permanent exhibitions

Temporary exhibitions

Gallery

Controversies

Museumsufer

Liebieghaus is part of the Museumsufer.

Museumsufer Frankfurt
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Museums of the Museumsufer, Frankfurt am Main
South Bank
1
Hindemith Kabinett im Kuhhirtenturm (de)
2
Icon Museum (de) (Museum of Orthodox sacred Art)
3
Portikus (Exhibition hall for contemporary art)
4
Museum Angewandte Kunst (Applied Arts)
5
Museum der Weltkulturen (Ethnological Museum)
6
Deutsches Filmmuseum (de) (German Film Museum)
7
German Architecture Museum
8
Museum für Kommunikation
9
Städel (Fine Arts Museum)
10
Liebieghaus (Classical sculpture collection)
11
Museum Giersch (Art and culture of Rhine-Main)
North Bank
12
Jewish Museum Frankfurt
13
Frankfurt Archaeological Museum (de)
14
Historical Museum, Frankfurt
15
Caricatura Museum Frankfurt
16
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (Art exhibition venue)
17
Museum für Moderne Kunst (Modern Art Museum)
18
Frankfurter Judengasse Museum (Preserved foundations from the Ghetto)
19
Deutsches Romantik-Museum / Goethe House
External
20
Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Westend, Frankfurt)
21
Eintracht Frankfurt Museum (Waldstadion)
22
German Leather Museum (Offenbach)
23
Klingspor Museum (Offenbach)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Wall colors: sand gray (Egypt), light blue (Greece), bright red (Rome), anthracite (show depot)[15]
  2. ^ Exhibits: Pythagorean theorem, Daidalos, Sphaira, Antikythera mechanism, Astrolabe and Jeff Koons' Apollo Kithara.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "About the museum". Liebieghaus. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Jahresbericht Städel 2021" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Städel/Liebieghaus Jahresbericht 2022" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023.
  4. ^ "Hessische Biografie : Erweiterte Suche : LAGIS Hessen". Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) (in German). Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  5. ^ "Liebieg, Heinrich (von)". Frankfurter Personenlexikon (in German). Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Swarzenski, Georg". Frankfurter Personenlexikon (in German). Archived from the original on 21 March 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  7. ^ Sonnabend, Martin (1990). Georg Swarzenski und das Liebieghaus (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Societäts-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-7973-0465-0. OCLC 612298776.
  8. ^ Bramnitz, Hubertus von (9 May 2014). "Architektur der Postmoderne". Weltexpresso (in German). Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Liebieghaus, Museum Alter Plastik". www.menges-scheffler.de (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  10. ^ Hierholzer, Michael (13 March 2008). "Neue Räume für Körperkult und Innerlichkeit". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Über das Museum". Liebieghaus (in German). Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  12. ^ "Philipp Demandt ist Direktor von Städel und Liebieghaus". StadtPost.de (in German). 4 October 2016. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  13. ^ a b "Antike". Liebieghaus. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  14. ^ a b "Stefan Roller: A Portrait". Liebieghaus. Archived from the original on 22 March 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  15. ^ "Liebieghaus". BAUWELT (in German). 26 September 2014. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  16. ^ "Support". Liebieghaus. Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  17. ^ "Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur". Startseite Bildindex (in German). 15 December 2022. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  18. ^ Germany – Tourist Guide. Michelin et Cie. Watford (UK) / Clermont-Ferrand (France), 1996. ISBN 2-06-150402-7. ISSN 0763-1383. (in English)
  19. ^ Torri, Valentina; Kreikenbom, Marianne (2001). Der heilige Abt : eine spätgotische Holzskulptur im Liebieghaus (in German). Berlin: Reimer. ISBN 3-496-01237-4. OCLC 48478994.
  20. ^ Bückling, Maraike (June 2022). White Wedding (in German). München: Hirmer. ISBN 978-3-7774-3877-1.
  21. ^ Leclerc, Florian (29 May 2020). "Kunstmäzen Reiner Winkler ist verstorben". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Archived from the original on 4 December 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  22. ^ "Gods in Color". Liebieghaus. 8 October 2008. Archived from the original on 25 June 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  23. ^ Gerhaert, Nicolaus; Gerhaert von Leiden, Nicolaus; Roller, Stefan; Liebieghaus; Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame Straßburg; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (2011). Niclaus Gerhaert – der Bildhauer des späten Mittelalters (in German). Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86568-685-5. OCLC 1270291537.
  24. ^ "Das Frankfurter Liebieghaus präsentiert erstmals Skulpturen des spätmittelalterlichen Meisters Niclaus Gerhaert". op-online.de (in German). 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  25. ^ ""Niclaus Gerhaert: The Medieval Sculptor" at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Artdaily. 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
  26. ^ Koons, Jeff; Ulrich, Matthias; Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Pissarro, Joachim; Hollein, Max; Liebieghaus; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2012). Jeff Koons : the painter & the sculptor. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-3371-7. OCLC 794364561.
  27. ^ Fetkenheuer, Klaus (2 June 2017). "Zurück zur Klassik. Ein neuer Blick auf das alte Griechenland. Hg. v. Vinzenz Brinkmann. Eine Ausstellung der Liebighaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 8. Februar bis 26. Mai 2013". Forum Classicum (in German) (3): 225–226 Seiten. doi:10.11588/FC.2013.3.39402.
  28. ^ "Dangerous Liaisons". Liebieghaus. 4 November 2015. Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
  29. ^ "GODS IN COLOR – GOLDEN EDITION". Liebieghaus. 30 January 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  30. ^ Theiss, Harald; Roller, Stefan (2021). Mission Rimini : material, history, conservation : The Rimini Altarpiece : [exhibition, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 3. November 2021 -24. April 2022]. Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag. ISBN 978-3-422-98679-4. OCLC 1410910998.
  31. ^ Brinkmann, Vinzenz (2023). Maschinenraum der Götter (in German). Berlin München: Deutscher Kunstverlag. ISBN 978-3-422-99634-2.
  32. ^ "Moralisch verwerflich? Frankfurter Liebieghaus zeigt Kunst aus Elfenbein". hessenschau.de (in German). 10 June 2022. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 9 December 2023.

Further reading

Exhibitions
Exhibition Machine room of the gods
Rimini Altarpiece
Spendid White
Purchases

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