Caricatura Museum of Comic Art
The Caricatura Museum for Komische Kunst in Frankfurt am Main exhibits works of comic art. The permanent exhibition, which changes at certain intervals, shows texts, drawings and sculptures by artists from the New Frankfurt School . There are also special exhibitions by contemporary artists. In cooperation with the city council, the museum is also the patron of the series of sculptures Komische Kunst in Frankfurt's green belt .
prehistory
The Caricatura institution was founded in 1984 as a non-profit association to support cultural life in Kassel . Since 1995 she has been running the Caricatura Museum of Comic Art in the KulturBahnhof Kassel .
history
Since April 2000, an independent Caricatura department has been working in the Historical Museum in Frankfurt in order to establish permanent recognition of this art in Frankfurt and to prepare the establishment of a museum for comic art in Frankfurt. The Caricatura Museum was opened under Achim Frenz as founding director on October 1st, 2008, but remained organizationally subordinate to the Historical Museum. It is located in the lavishly converted canvas house in Frankfurt's old town at Weckmarkt 17. The Caricatura Museum has been an independent institution since April 1, 2019; This was preceded by a rift between museum director Achim Frenz and Jan Gerchow , the superior director of the historical museum.
The permanent exhibition includes works by FW Bernstein , Robert Gernhardt , Chlodwig Poth , Hans Traxler and FK Waechter ; the museum's own media department offers a wide range of information about the literary and cinematic work of the New Frankfurt School. In addition, the museum organizes temporary exhibitions with exhibits from other representatives of the comic art, such as the 2011 Haderer exhibition . Furthermore, it organizes readings, book presentations and the like at irregular intervals.
The landmark of the Caricatura is a bronze elk sculpture with a trench coat, vest and hat , designed by Hans Traxler, standing in front of the building . The sandstone base of the sculpture bears a bronze plaque with the names of the eight most important representatives of the New Frankfurt School as well as the motto coined by FW Bernstein "The harshest critics of the moose used to be themselves".
Exhibitions
- 2008
- Bernd Pfarr - Komische Welten (October 2, 2008 - January 11, 2009)
- 2009
- Greser & Lenz - Hurray, the crisis is over (January 29 - April 26, 2009)
- Hans Traxler - Löhlein's Cat (May 7th - July 26th 2009)
- ATAK and Fil - Superpeter - Struwwelpeter Superhero (August 6th - September 20th, 2009)
- Titanic - the first best in 30 years (October 3, 2009 - January 31, 2010)
- 2010
- Chlodwig Poth - Poth for the world (February 11 - April 25, 2010)
- Franziska Becker - Final Warning (May 27 - September 19, 2010)
-
The history of popular music
with pictures by Guido Sieber and texts by Franz Dobler (September 30, 2010 - January 30, 2011)
- 2011
- Jean-Marc Reiser - Vive Reiser! (February 10 - June 26, 2011)
- Haderer (July 7th - November 27th 2011)
- Tomi Ungerer - Satiricon (December 8, 2011 - March 18, 2012)
- 2012
- Nikolaus Heidelbach - Sausage, Wine, Christmas, Game and Vegetables (March 29 - July 29, 2012)
- Marie Marcks (August 9 - November 11, 2012)
- Caricatura VI - The Comic Art (November 22, 2012 - March 3, 2013)
- 2013
- FW Bernstein - Drawings of Works (March 14 - July 7, 2013)
- Rattelschneck - salmon sack instead of airbag (July 18 - November 3, 2013)
- Sowa Hurzlmeier Kahl - Unworldly Painting (November 14, 2013 - March 16, 2014)
- 2014
- Ralf König - Paul vs. Paul (March 27 - August 3, 2014)
- Kurt Halbritter (August 14 - November 16, 2014)
- Kamagurka - How to become a German. Kamagurka's becoming German (November 27, 2014 - March 22, 2015)
- 2015
- Gerhard Glück - That too! (April 2 - September 13, 2015)
- Gerhard Seyfried (September 27, 2015 - January 24, 2016)
- 2016
- BeCK (February 11 - June 12, 2016)
- Sebastian Krüger (June 30th - October 30th 2016)
- Stern-Humor (November 10, 2016 - March 12, 2017)
- 2017
- Ari Plikat (March 23rd - July 23rd 2017)
- Frank Hoppmann - Animalism (August 3 - December 3, 2017)
- Robert Gernhardt (December 15 - April 15, 2018)
- 2018
- Otto - The Exhibition (April 25 - September 2, 2018)
- Volker Kriegel - (September 13, 2018 - January 20, 2019)
- 2019
- Ernst Kahl - Forgotten Disasters (February 7 - May 12, 2019)
- Hans Traxler - On his 90th birthday (May 28 - September 22, 2019)
- 40 Years of Titanic - The Definitive Exhibition (October 3, 2019 - February 2, 2020)
See also
- Caricatura Kassel
Web links
- Official website. Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst Frankfurt am Main, accessed on September 6, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum dispute in Frankfurt: The Caricatura Museum becomes independent. In: www.faz.net. March 13, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019 .
- ^ Art in Public Space, Frankfurt. The elk sculpture on the site. City of Frankfurt am Main :: Der Magistrat :: Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main :: Department of Fine Arts, accessed on September 6, 2015 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 36.8 ″ N , 8 ° 41 ′ 6.4 ″ E