Liebieghaus

Museum on Schaumainkai 71

The Liebighaus is a castle-like historic villa on the Sachsenhausen Main embankment in Frankfurt am Main and houses the Municipal Gallery Liebighaus, which is among the museums on Museum shore.

History and use

The Bohemian textile manufacturer Baron Heinrich von Liebieg (1839-1904), member of the Liebieg family settled in 1896 built the villa as a retirement home for himself; it was designed by the Munich architect Leonhard Romeis.

In 1907 the city of Frankfurt acquired the property and devoted the house into a museum for urban sculpture collection to (current name: Liebieghaus ). The collection is one of the most important in Europe, and includes Greek, Roman and Egyptian sculptures from antiquity and pieces from the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Classicism as well as works from East Asia.

The Liebighaus has a universal oriented collection that is fueled less by regional art, nobility collections or secularized church property, but bought together on the international art market and has been extended by trusts. Only comparatively few of the works are therefore connected to Frankfurt or the Frankfurt history.

The first director was George Swarzenski, the 1907 built up the collection and in 1909 the museum opened. Eminent scientists have since been working as directors and curators at Liebighaus, including Herbert Beck ( 1969-2006 ), the archaeologist Peter C. Bol and the art historian Anton Legner. Since 2006 Max Hollein is the director of the Liebieghaus.

The Liebighaus regularly organizes special exhibitions such as " Colourful Gods - The colors of antique sculpture" (2008), " Jean -Antoine Houdon. Sculpture and Sensibility "(2009), " Sahura - Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh "( 2010), " Niclaus Gerhaert. The sculptor of the Middle Ages " (2010 /11) and in cooperation with the Schirn Kunsthalle " Jeff Koons. The Painter & The Sculptor "(2012).

The museum is located at Schaumainkai surrounded by a garden, in which some sculptures are exhibited. Among other things, there is among a small group of trees, a copy of Dannecker's Ariadne.

After conceived by the Berlin office Kuehn Malvezzi conversion, the newly designed exhibition spaces were in October 2009, on the occasion of the 100 - year celebrations, reopened. A depot for the first time allows a visit to a part of the not included in the permanent collection of art.

Outstanding exhibits

  • A marble Diskobolos
  • A marble statue of Athena on the model of Myron
  • The Carolingian ivory reliefs of the " elders Metzer school " with the testimony of John on a book cover ( mid- 9th century )
  • Ottonian a crucifix ( mid 11th century )
  • A Romanesque king's head from a statue of the Ile- de -France
  • By Tino da Camaino: Fragments of a Florentine grave Males ( probably after 1318 )
  • An alabaster sculpture of the mercy seat of Hans Multscher ( 1430 )
  • A crescent moon Madonna by Tilman Riemenschneider
  • The Rimini - altar, a multi-figured northern French crucifix from Alabaster ( around 1430 )
  • Bärbel von Ottenheim, Sibylle the late Gothic / early Renaissance by Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden ( 1463/64 )
  • Johann Heinrich Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther (1803-1805), who had acquired in 1810 the banker Simon Moritz von Bethmann. A replica stands in the park of the Liebieghaus.

Gallery

Athena

Interior

Interior

Sundial with humor: mounted on the west wall, the headline is only too true: " Not always, but right."

Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther.

Experimental reconstruction

On the occasion of the exhibition Back to Classic, February 28 to May 26, 2013, to classical Greece in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, it was possible, from the face of the warrior from Riace A from the Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia to produce a scan of the head in Reggio Calabria and thus produce a reconstruction of bronze and additional materials. In addition to, just like the original, the same shape head, a copy of a helmet near the locality also found was made ​​to do so. The additional materials such as silver, glass and stone, etc. is trying to revive the former impression of the characters and to show the viewer how colorful the then Bronzeplatiken in classical Greece were.

Exhibitions

  • 2012/2013: Art Treasures of the patron Heinrich von Liebieg, Museum Giersch, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2013: Back to Classic. A new look at ancient Greece. Catalog.
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