#städel museum

[marimayscarlett]

Today, I took a little day trip to Frankfurt to indulge in one of my favorite things – wandering through museums for hours and letting myself be captivated by art. Today at the Städel Museum 🎨 and the German Filmmuseum 📽️

'Allegory of the arts', Pompeo Batoni • 'In the roses', Dora Hitz • 'Mlle Julie Feurgard', Louise Catherine Breslau • 'Orchestra musicians', Edgar Degas • 'Brandenburg Gate' , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner • 'Storm at Sea off the Norwegian Coast', Andreas Achenbach • 'Goethe in the Roman Campagna', Johann H.W. Tischbein • 'Youth tempted by the vices', Luca Giordano • 'Idealized portrait of a lady', Sandro Botticelli

Original autographs of famous German movie stars (f.e. Romy Schneider, O.W. Fischer, Liselotte Pulver and Gert Fröbe) • Scene from the movie 'Ali: Fear eats the soul' by German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Examples for facial expressions for Jack Skellington ('The Nightmare before Christmas') • vintage poster for a movie show by the Lumière brothers (turn of the 20th century ) • Costume for the movie 'Alien', designed by artist HR Giger • little old me in the funky endless mirror bathroom in the museum 🪞

[peoplematchingartworks]

[galerymod]

ANDY WARHOL

200 x 210 cm

Material and technique

Screen print and acrylic on canvas

About the work

Andy Warhol saw the famous portrait of Goethe by J. H. Wilhelm Tischbein during a visit to the Städel Museum. As the epitome of German culture, it inspired him to create this work and other prints, some of which are also in the Städel collection. In 1962, Warhol, a key figure in American Pop Art, began to reproduce press photos of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley in silkscreen prints. He used shrill colours and a striking two-dimensionality to distort the original images, which had become known worldwide through the media. With the serial production in his studio, which he himself referred to as a factory, the classic characteristics of art such as subjectivity and originality recede. At the same time, he reflects the changed perception of reality through mass media images in those days compared to today: Goethe, the superstar of the Städel, the city of Frankfurt and German classicism.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (original title)

Artist

Andy Warhol

Period

20th century

Style

Pop art, figurative painting

Type of object

painting

Material and technique

screen print and acrylic on canvas

Material

canvas

Technique

screen print

acrylic

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andy Warhol

[thinkingimages]

[baebeylik]

Mike The Mike. 2000. Städel Museum.

[karneval-venedig]

Der Markusplatz in Venedig

🎨 Giacomo Guardi

⏳ Ca. 1780-1810

📍 Städel Museum

[empirearchives]

Scenes of Napoleonic Switzerland and France by Jean-Antoine Linck

Vue de St. Gervais, de l'Aiguille blance, & du bon homme, 1805 (source)

Vue du Mont-Blanc prise près de Salanche (source)

Vue de l'Aiguille de Varens de la Cascade de Chêde, & du Village de ce même nom, prise Sur la route de Chêde au pont des Chèvres, 1800 (source)

Vue du Lac de Genève, 1801 (source)

Vue de l'Entrée de Cluse, du Mont Vergi, & de l'Aiguille de Varens, 1806 (source)

Vue de Clée, pays de Vaud, 1803 (source)

Vue de Viû en Salas et du Môle, 1802 (source)

Vue de la ville de St. J[e]oire à 5. lieus de Genève, et des Montagnes de Machily, et Fausigny, 1802 (source)

L'Aiguille du Veron, 1805 (source)

Vue du Brezon, pris près de Bonneville, 1806 (source)

All paintings are from Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

[holundra]

Weibliches Idealbildnis:

Simonetta Vespucci als Nymphe

🎨 Sandro Botticelli

📍 Städel Museum Ffm

[artrite]

Upper Rhenish Master - The little Garden of Paradise

Maestro dell’alto Reno, Madonna e santi nel giardino del Paradiso, (1410-1420), tecnica mista su tavola, 25.6 x 32.8 cm, Städel Museum, Francoforte sul Meno

[lubentina]

August Macke (German, 1887 – 1914)

Little Walter’s Toys, 1912. Städel Museum

Oil on canvas

[4eternal-life]

Adolf Luther  (German, 1912 -1990)

Virtuelles Bild (Spiegelobjekt),  1966 –1967

https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/virtuelles-bild-spiegelobjekt

In 1966 the autodidact Adolf Luther put aside canvas, paint and paintbrush and made use of his actual surroundings and spherical concave mirrors as the material and technique for his artistic praxis. He worked initially with single concave mirror objects. These refract the light, reflect it and thus show to impressive advantage the interplay of transparent space and the immaterial energy of light. From 1970 onwards Luther transferred the atmospheric effect of the concave mirror into the real space in his serially arranged and multi-perspectivally focused integrations.

For the artist, whose vocation came late and who was loosely associated with the Düsseldorf ZERO group, architecture was part of a world that was in constant movement. In his objects and installations, it is expanded by the kinetic potential of light.

© 2023 Städel Museum

[frankiedowntherabbithole]

[pferdundkunst]

Hasenhetze mit einem Falkner

🎨 Johann Georg Pforr

⏳ 1786

📍 Städel Museum

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Georg Flegel (1566-1638) "Still Life with Bread and Confectionery" (c. 1633-1636) Oil on beech wood Located in the Städel, Frankfurt, Germany

[maslimanny]

Portraits such as this are of an idealized woman - a neo-Platonic ideal. But could this portrait be an idealization of Simonetta? Perhaps. Although Simonetta died in 1476, at least four years prior to the crafting of this portrait.

[baebeylik]

Per Kirkeby. Ohne Titel. 1983. Danish.

Städel Museum. Frankfurt, Germany.