Städel Museum – Frankfurt
The Städel Museum was founded in 1815 by the German banker Johann Friedrich Städel, who in his will expressed the desire to create an independent art institute that could house his art collection. The collection preserved many works, including paintings and engravings: his ambition was obviously to make a complete account of the history of art.
The museum opened in fact in 1817, and was initially housed in Städel’s home; with the increase of the collections, in the second half of the nineteenth century a new structure was built, in neoclassical style.
The collection now offers an overview covering a period of about seven hundred years of European art from the beginning of the fourteenth century to today, with particular attention to Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary art, and preserves a total of 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 5,000 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints.
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Stadelsches Kunstinstitut
Link: www.staedelmuseum.de
