Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt

The Museum of Applied Arts (until 2012 Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt) is a museum of art, crafts and design at the Museum Embankment in Frankfurt am Main.

Architecture

The museum building was designed by the American architect Richard Meier. It was built in 1985 in the park of Villa Metzler, the Metzler Park today. This villa is also part of the museum. His design was chosen because he spared the trees of the park and the villa integrated into the overall concept. The three interconnected white cubes of the new building are modeled on the proportions of classical villa of the museum. A glazed transition to the first floor connects the new building with the back of the villa. The premises of the Richard Meier - building were adjusted by static display fixtures. Whole window and patio doors were closed to protect the collection objects. 2013, the Richard Meier Building of the Museum of Applied Art was restored to its original state, 27 years after its construction. All barriers have been removed, open sightlines and vistas again, the transparency of the building restored. In the modified foyer is a museum shop and a bistro on the second floor.

According to Richard Meier, the new building of the museum, his first order of this kind was

Museum Park

The museum park was also designed by Meier. It is located between Schaumainkai and Metzler Road ( north-south). The park extends, with its green space, from the Museum of World Cultures to the Museum of Applied Art (West -East). Its special feature is a rectangular, cross-shaped walkway to connect the two roads and the two museums, as well as a white fountain at its intersection axis. 2013, the park was renamed " Metzler Park".

Fountain of North

History

1877 submitted to the Central German Kunstgewerbeverein the ground floor of the museum collection.

The city of Frankfurt took over the collection of the association in 1921 and created a few years later from the Museum of Arts and Crafts. Because of the destroyed in the Second World War the collection premises had to be stored and found again only in 1966 an exhibition opportunity at the Villa Metzler. In January 2000, the museum was renamed Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt. Since its reopening after an interior renovation from December 2012 to April 2013, it bears the name of Museum of Applied Arts.

Collection

The museum's collection includes about 65,000 works from five millennia. Its focus is on European art, crafts and design from the 12th to the 21st century. Other priorities include book art and graphic Islamic and East Asian art.

The new presentation is based on thematic space modules. The Existing and loans can be presented in different ways and put each other in Beziehungung. In addition, the museum is focusing increasingly on issues of the present and focuses on the issues Fashion, Body, and performative design more into the focus of attention.

A branch of the museum is the Frankfurter icon museum in the former refectory of the German Order of the house.

Selection of exhibitions

The Historic Villa Metzler

The 2008 renovated and re- decorated Historic Villa Metzler is part of the Museum of Applied Art in Frankfurt and served Richard Meier as the starting point of proportion and scale of the new building from 1985. With the era rooms they are examples of historic home decor, from Baroque to Art Nouveau.

Corporate Design

The 2005-2012 valid logo and graphical appearance of the Museum of Applied Arts Frankfurt developed the Paris design studio Vier5 behind which the artist Marco Fiedler and Achim Reichert stand. The force since 2013 graphical appearance developed Jasmin Kress.

Support by the Frankfurt Kunstgewerbeverein

The Arts and Crafts Club in Frankfurt am Main eV is a subsidiary association of the oldest association in Frankfurt, which was founded in 1816 Polytechnic Society, in which the citizens of Frankfurt " to convey the useful arts and sciences they ennobling " merged. They support the Museum of Applied Art in New Acquisitions, publication projects, exhibitions and special projects such as the restoration of the Historic Villa Metzler. Among other things, the members are informed about current projects and new acquisitions and have free admission to the permanent exhibitions of the museum and special tours and demonstrations.