BERLIN.- The Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2011 (Käthe Kollwitz Prize) has been awarded jointly to Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. On this occasion the artist duo from Canada will be showing four works in the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts). The…
One Hundred Masterpieces from the Städel Museum at Rome’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni
ROME.- The exhibition presents, for the first time in Italy, a selection of works from the collection of the internationally renowned museum of Frankfurt, founded in 1815 through a bequest by merchant and banker Johann Friedrich Städel (1728-1816) and…
Topping-Out Ceremony at the Städel Museum, Shell for Expansion Completed
FRANKFURT.- The Städel Museum celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the expansion wing being built to house the presentation of art after 1945. The shell construction of the 3,000-square-metre underground facility was completed on schedule after a m…
Städel Museum Opens “In Chronological Order: Städel Works of the 14th to 21st Centuries”
FRANKFURT.- The holdings of the Städel Museum comprise masterpieces of European art from the late Middle Ages to the present. The temporary closure of its galleries in the course of the redevelopment measures carried out in the old building as part of…