TITIAN and the Renaissance in Venice
13 FEBRUARY – 26 MAY 2019
A super duper collection again! Each German city offers surprises… Städel museum was founded by banker & businessman Johann Friedrich Städel in 1815. It ranks as Germany’s oldest museum foundation. The collection offers 700 years of European art from the early 14. century to the present. There are 3,100 paintings, 660 sculptures, more than 5,000 photographs and more than 100,000 drawings and prints. Works by such artists as Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans and Isa Genzken form the highlights.
Orchestra Musicians – Edgar Degas, 1872 English Dance Couple – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1909 (1926)
The Pinch of Snuff – Marc Chagall, 1912 The Holy Coachman – Marc Chagalll, 1912
The Bathers – Maurice Denis, 1907 cephalus procris – Paolo Veronese, 1580 The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche- Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola), 1540
Idealised Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph) – Sandro Botticelli, 1480Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – Andy Warhol, 1982 Madonna Mercedes – Thomas Bayrle, 1989
Study for the Nurse in the Film “Battleship Potemkin” – Francis Bacon, 1957