Liebieghaus

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 (1839–1904). The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection. The first director of the Skulpturensammlung der Städtischen Galerie Frankfurt was Georg Swarzenski. In 1909, Paul Kanold built a gallery wing extension to the villa, that was completed in 1990 by Scheffler and Warschauer. A renovation was completed in October 2009. 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. As of 2023, the exhibition space is 1,600 m2 (17,000 ft2). Max Hollein was the director from January 2006 to 2016, followed by Philipp Demandt. Since 2007, Vinzenz Brinkmann has headed the antiquities collection. His main research areas are the colors of antiquity and ancient myths. Since 2006, Stefan Roller has been the head of the Medieval Department. His research focuses on Southern German sculpture of the Late Gothic period. Collection The museum includes ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman sculpture, as well as Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and Classicist pieces, and works from the Far East. The collection was built up mostly through endowments and international purchases. 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: A marble discobolus A marble statue of Athena, a Roman copy of a Greek original by Myron Carolingian reliefs carved from ivory (mid-9th century) An Ottonian crucifix (mid-11th century) A Romanesque king's head from a statue from the Île-de-France Fragments from a Florentine tomb by Tino di Camaino (probably after 1318) An alabaster sculpture of the Trinity by Hans Multscher (c. 1430) A Woman of the Apocalypse by Tilman Riemenschneider The Rimini Altar, an alabaster calvary from northern France (c. 1430) A bust of Barbara von Ottenheim by Nikolaus Gerhaert (1463–64) Abbot Saint, a late Gothic wooden sculpture Permanent exhibitions Splendid White – Reiner Winkler's ivory collection (gallery wing basement) Temporary exhibitions 2008/2009: Gods in Color 2011/2012: Nikolaus Gerhaert. The Medieval Sculptor 2012: Jeff Koons. The Sculptor (at the Liebieghaus) 2013: Back to Classic. Ancient Greece reconsidered 2015/2016: Dangerous Liaisons. The Art of the French Rococo 2020/2021: Gods in Color – Golden Edition 2021/2022: Mission Rimini 2023/2024: Machine room of the gods Gallery See also Städel List of museums in Germany List of art museums Gods in Color Meister des Rimini-Altars Notes References Further reading Setzepfandt, Wolf-Christian (2002). Architekturführer Frankfurt am Main / Frankfurt am Main : architectural guide / by Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt (in German). Berlin: Reimer. ISBN 3-496-01236-6. OCLC 50645225. Bildwerke aus dem Liebieghaus (in German). Frankfurt a.M: Städt. Galerie. 1962. OCLC 73261415. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung; Städtische Galerie Frankfurt am Main (1910). Skulpturensammlung im Liebieghaus (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie. OCLC 551959969. Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Bückling, Maraike; Roller, Stefan; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (2008). Meisterwerke im Liebieghaus (in German). Petersberg: Fuldaer Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 978-3-86568-364-9. OCLC 226293476. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (2017). Eindeutig bis zweifelhaft : Skulpturen und ihre Geschichten (in German). Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-943215-09-0. OCLC 988365325.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Stillbauer, Thomas (21 December 2020). "Lichtblick bei Liebieg". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. Exhibitions Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Koch-Brinkmann, Ulrike; Blume-Jung, Clarissa; Henke, Felix; Kress, Bianca Larissa; Østergaard, Jan Stubbe; Piening, Heinrich; Primavesi, Oliver; Settis, Salvatore; Prestel Verlag (2020). Bunte Götter die Farben der Antike : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt am Main (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-7913-5936-6. OCLC 1126576107.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Liebieghaus (2013). Zurück zur Klassik : ein neuer Blick auf das Alte Griechenland : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 8. Februar bis 26. Mai 2013 (in German). München: Hirmer. ISBN 978-3-7774-2008-0. OCLC 829679886. Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Liebieghaus (2018). Medeas Liebe : und die Jagd nach dem Goldenen Vlies : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 5. Oktober 2018-10. Februar 2019 (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-7774-3114-7. OCLC 1059471041.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Breunig, Peter; Liebieghaus; Universität Frankfurt am Main; Nigeria. National Commission for Museums and Monuments (2013). Nok : ein Ursprung afrikanischer Skulptur : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt und der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in Kooperation mit der National Commission for Museums and Monuments Abuja, Nigeria (in German). Frankfurt. ISBN 978-3-937248-38-7. OCLC 866950228.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung presents key artworks from the French Rococo in an exhibition". Artdaily. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022. "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung exhibits works by artist William Kentridge". Artdaily. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022. Exhibition Machine room of the gods Müller, Hans-Joachim (21 March 2023). "Kunst und Wissenschaft: Der Algorithmus war schon immer eine harte Währung". Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. "Maschinenraum der Götter: Wie unsere Zukunft erfunden wurde – Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 30 May 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023. "Wenn aus Sternen Zahnräder werden". mainkurier (in German). 24 June 2023. Retrieved 5 December 2023. Spreckelsen, Tilman (9 March 2023). "Die ewige Rebhuhnjagd". FAZ (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. Rimini Altarpiece Danicke, Sandra (2 November 2021). "Liebieghaus Frankfurt: Alabaster ist eine Diva". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. Menne, Katharina (18 April 2022). "Restaurierung des Rimini-Altars: Alabaster, die Diva aller Materialien". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 8 December 2023. "Liebieghaus: Der Glanz ist zurück". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 31 August 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2023. Spendid White Bückling, Maraike; Liebieghaus (2022). Splendid white : die Elfenbeinsammlung Reiner Winkler im Liebieghaus : Alle Werke nun vereint! : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, ab 2. Juni 2022 (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-943215-18-2. OCLC 1333179859.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Magel, Eva-Maria (10 June 2022). "Splendid White im Frankfurter Liebieghaus widmet sich dem Elfenbein". FAZ.NET (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. Purchases "Ein Christuskind für die Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Kunstwerke". Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. Laud, Anja (16 December 2022). "Liebieghaus in Frankfurt kauft wertvolle Engel an". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). Retrieved 9 December 2023. External links Official website (in English and German) "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Museumsufer Frankfurt. Retrieved 21 December 2022. "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Museen-in-Hessen (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022. "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Proveana (in German). 26 May 2023. Retrieved 9 December 2023. Liebieghaus's channel on YouTube