Giersch Museum
The Museum Giersch of the Goethe University is an exhibition center on the Museumsufer in Frankfurt am Main .
history
The founding goes back to the married couple Carlo and Karin Giersch , who collect regional art of world class. The Städel once served this area , for example with the annual Gau exhibition for fine arts , but after 1945 only limited it to a few artists who were described as " degenerate " during the Nazi era . The facility, which opened in 2000, shows changing exhibitions on the art and cultural history of the Rhine-Main area with the aim of exploring the cultural identity of the region.
As a pure exhibition space, the Giersch Museum presents loans from public and private collections. The spectrum of exhibitions covers all areas from painting, photography, sculpture and graphics to architecture and applied arts.
The museum's exhibition building is the late Classicist Villa Holzmann on Schaumainkai , which was built around 1910 for the Holzmann entrepreneurial family and is one of the few remaining Sachsenhausen riverside villas today. The building was renovated and converted into a modern exhibition space by the Giersch Foundation , the sole sponsor of the museum.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main , the museum was transferred to the university on January 1, 2015 for 30 years. Since then it has appeared under the name Museum Giersch of the Goethe University .
On May 1, 2020, the then deputy director, Birgit Sander, who had a doctorate in art history, took over the management of the art museum from Manfred Großkinsky, who had already retired at the end of 2019.
Special exhibitions (selection)
- 2010: The sculptors August Gaul and Fritz Klimsch
- 2011: Carl Morgenstern and the landscape painting of his time
- 2011: Expressionism in the Rhine-Main area
- 2012: Wilhelm Steinhausen - Nature and Religion
- 2012: Art treasures of the patron Heinrich von Liebieg
- 2013: Fascination with strangers
- 2013: be an artist! Ottilie W. Roederstein - Emy Roeder - Maria von Heider-Schweinitz
- 2014: The other modern age - art and artists in the countries on the Rhine 1900 to 1922
- 2014: Frankfurt landscape painters from three generations: Carl Peter Burnitz - Hanny Franke - Klaus Kappel
- 2014: "I see wonderful things - 100 years of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main collections "
- 2015: Romanticism in the Rhine-Main area
- 2015: Reinhold Ewald (1890–1974)
- 2016: Listen to time - Ludwig Meidner in exile
- 2016: Goethe and the "Lady in Blue". Heads of the Goethe University
- 2016: Coming and going - from Courbet to Kirkeby . Artist residencies in the Frankfurt / RheinMain region
- 2017: Desired freedom. Abstraction in the 1950s
- 2017: Laura J. Padgett : somehow real
- 2017: From Frankfurt to New York - Eric and Jula Isenburger
- 2018: Freiraum der Kunst - The studio gallery of the Goethe University Frankfurt 1964–1968
- 2018: Paris, Frankfurt am Main and the 1968 generation. Photographs by Inge Werth
- 2018: Fascination of Things - Values worldwide in archeology and ethnology
- 2019: Frobenius - The Art of Research
- 2019: Heinrich Mylius (1769–1854) - A European citizen between Frankfurt am Main and Milan
- 2019: Georg Heck (1897–1982) - retrospective
- 2020: The world in the picture. Portraits , collectors and collections in Frankfurt am Main from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] , accessed April 23, 2015
- ↑ Dr. Birgit Sander succeeds Dr. Großkinsky. Museum Giersch of the Goethe University under new management. Goethe University Frankfurt am Main: Press release of April 28, 2020, accessed on April 28, 2020
Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 5.4 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 14.2" E