Liebieghaus

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Liebieghaus
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The Liebieghaus in 2005
Liebieghaus
Established1896 (1896)/1908 (1908)
Location Schaumainkai 71, Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany
Coordinates 50°06′07″N8°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
Architect Leonhard Romeis [4]
Public transit access
  • Frankfurt U1.svg Frankfurt U2.svg Frankfurt U3.svg Frankfurt U8.svg Schweizer Platz
  • Strassenbahn-Logo traffiQ.svg 15, 16 Otto-Hahn-Platz
  • Strassenbahn-Logo traffiQ.svg 16, 17, 21 Stresemannallee / Gartenstraße
Website www.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.

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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, [lower-alpha 1] 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

Controversies

Museumsufer

Liebieghaus is part of the Museumsufer.

Museumsufer Frankfurt
Liebieghaus

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.

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Further reading

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