In 1815, the merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel established an art foundation, laying the foundation for what is now Germany's oldest museum foundation. More than 200 years later, the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, with its unique collection of over 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, over 4,600 photographs and 100,000 drawings and prints, is one of the most renowned art houses in the world.
Here, you have the opportunity to experience 700 years of art history up close through highlights by Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Sandro Botticelli, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, or Gerhard Richter. The Städel Museum has garnered high esteem from audiences, critics, and artists alike for its outstanding collection, as well as its scholarly research, regularly curated exhibitions, and art education efforts for many decades. A crucial step in the direction of the museum of the future was the recent expansion of the digital mediation offerings with contemporary media and numerous new narrative forms.
The originals of the artworks shown here are on display at the Museum Städel.
