Icon Museum (Frankfurt am Main)

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The Icon Museum in the Teutonic Order House

The Icon Museum of the City of Frankfurt shows sacred art of Orthodox Christianity and exhibitions on subjects of imagery. It is located in the Deutschordenshaus and forms the eastern end of the museum bank . Formally, the museum is a branch of the Museum of Applied Arts .

history

In 1988 the Königstein doctor Jörgen Schmidt-Voigt donated a collection of 800 icons to the city of Frankfurt , which then began planning the museum. The design by the architect Oswald Mathias Ungers was implemented . The collection, which dates from the 16th to 19th centuries, was gradually expanded to over 1,000 exhibits through systematic purchases, loans and donations. In 1999, the Icon Museum received an additional 82 post-Byzantine icons from the icon collection of the Museum of Byzantine Art in Berlin. A striking addition is a collection of Ethiopian icons, crosses and liturgical implements owned by the Frankfurt collector Maritta von Miller.

exhibition

Works by famous icon painters are shown, including the "Descent into Hell" (1885) by Michail Milyutin, the "Annunciation" (1640) by Emanuel Tzanes and the "Descent from the Cross" (around 1530) by Angelo Bissamano. Furthermore, works of sacred art from the "beautiful corner" from the private sector, with icons from Northeast Europe to the Middle East. In addition to icons, there are church implements and manuscripts in the museum's collection. A permanent loan of Ethiopian crosses, icons and manuscripts gives an insight into this ancient oriental church.

Special exhibitions from 2002 (selection)

  • “The Shine of the Christian Orient”, 2002. Icons from Syria and Lebanon. In cooperation with the Dommuseum Frankfurt. The exhibition was then shown at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris.
  • “Great Novgorod”, 2003 for the Frankfurt Book Fair. Icons, church implements and decorations from the rich trading city of Novgorod from the 14th to 19th centuries. In cooperation with the Dommuseum Frankfurt.
  • “When Chagall learned to fly”, 2003. On the influence of Russian icons and popular picture sheets (Lubok) on the Russian avant-garde. The exhibition was then shown at the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
  • "... from the hand of your servant ...", Christian icons of the Arab world, 2004 for the Frankfurt Book Fair. Icons from Syria, Lebanon and the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt.
  • "Under your protection ...", icons of the 15th - 18th centuries from the Polish Carpathians, 2005.
  • "Football and Religion", exhibition for the 2006 Football World Cup in Germany.
  • "Get up and go south ...", 2000 years of Christianity in Ethiopia.
  • “Fire and Spirit”, icons from the Bulgarian Patriarchate, 2008.
  • "700 Years of the Teutonic Order Church in Frankfurt", exhibition on the Teutonic Order Church and the Teutonic Order, 2009.
  • In 2010 the provocative exhibition "The Icon Marilyn Monroe" was shown, which was dedicated to the topic of the " Media Icon ".
  • "Unknown Russia", signed and dated icons from the Old Believer workshops in Vetka, Nev'jansk, Guslicy and the Frolov brothers on Lake Peipus, 2010. An attempt at classification.
  • “End times! Concepts of the Apocalypse and Last Judgment on icons ”, 2012. The exhibition covered an arc from the expulsion from Paradise, Christ's descent into hell and the redemption of mankind, the Last Judgment, to the Creed and the Solomonic Verses on Divine Wisdom.
  • "Colors of Holiness", icons from the 15th to 19th centuries from the Andrej Rublev Museum in Moscow, 2013. In cooperation with the Cathedral Museum in Frankfurt and the Catharijne Convention in Utrecht.
  • “Winter Saints”, depictions and stories of the saints from November 2013 to March 2014. In cooperation with the Dommuseum Frankfurt and the Ikonenmuseum Kampen / Netherlands.
  • "25 years of the Ikonen-Museum and its friends" for the 25th anniversary of the Ikonen-Museum Frankfurt, 2015.
  • “Krakow Christmas Cribs”, 2016/2017.
  • “Love, splendor and doom. The Hessian Princesses in Russian History ”, 2017/2018. Catalog.

Web links

Commons : Icon Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shirin Sojitrawalla: Stunningly simple and no frills. The Icon Museum in Frankfurt am Main (= The ZEIT Museum Guide, episode 82). In: Die Zeit from December 2, 2010, p. 61.
  2. ↑ Magnificent, bright, colorful in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from December 25, 2016, page R5.

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