Liebieghaus
The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in Frankfurt, Germany. It contains a sculpture museum, the Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus, which is part of the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. Max Hollein was the director from January 2006 to 2016, followed by Philipp Demandt.
![]() The Liebieghaus in 2005 | |
Established | 1896 | /1908
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Location | Museumsufer, Frankfurt, Germany |
Coordinates | 50°06′07″N 8°40′18″E |
Type | Sculpture museum |
Key holdings | Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther |
Collections |
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Collection size | 3,000[1] |
Visitors | |
Director | Philipp Demandt |
Architect | Leonhard Romeis[3] |
Public transit access |
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Website | www.liebieghaus.de |
History
The Liebieghaus was built in 1896, in a palatial, historicist style, as a retirement home for the Bohemian textile manufacturer Baron Heinrich von Liebieg (1839–1904).[4] The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection.[1]
A renovation was completed in October 2009. This included adding a publicly accessible "Open Depot", making it possible for the first time to view certain parts of the collection that are not in the permanent exhibition.[1]
Collection
The museum includes ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian sculpture, as well as Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and Classicist pieces, and works from the Far East.[1] The collection was built up mostly through endowments and international purchases, and is universal in scope, with no particular link to the art or history of Frankfurt.
The building stands on the Schaumainkai, in a garden in which a number of sculptures are also on display, including a replica of Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther. The original, which was acquired by the banker Simon Moritz von Bethmann in 1810, is currently in the depot.
Other major exhibits include:[5][6]
- A marble discobolus
- A marble statue of Athena, a Roman copy of a Greek original by Myron
- Carolingian reliefs carved from ivory (mid-9th century)
- An Ottonian crucifix (mid-11th century)
- A Romanesque king's head from a statue from the Île-de-France
- Fragments from a Florentine tomb by Tino di Camaino (probably after 1318)
- An alabaster sculpture of the Trinity by Hans Multscher (c. 1430)
- A Woman of the Apocalypse by Tilman Riemenschneider
- The Rimini Altar, an alabaster calvary from northern France (c. 1430)
- A late-Gothic/early-Renaissance bust of Bärbel von Ottenheim, the mistress of Jakob von Lichtenberg (the Vogt of Strasbourg), by Nikolaus Gerhaert (1463–64).
Temporary exhibitions
- 2012: Jeff Koons. The Sculptor (at the Liebieghaus)[7]
- 2011/12: Nikolaus Gerhaert. The Medieval Sculptor[8][9][10]
Gallery
- Coffin of the priestess "Iset-en-kheb", Egypt
- Myron's Athena
- Discus thrower, possibly Naukydes of Argos
- Abbot Saint, unknown artist[11]
- Andrea della Robbia Madonna della Cintola
- Hans Multscher St Mary Magdalene
- Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther
- show depot
Museumsufer
Liebieghaus is part of the Museumsufer.
Notable Museums of the Museumsufer, Frankfurt am Main
South Bank
North Bank
External
Notes
- "About the museum". Liebieghaus. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- "Jahresbericht Städel 2021" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- "Hessische Biografie : Erweiterte Suche : LAGIS Hessen". Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS) (in German). Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
- "Liebieg, Heinrich (von)". Frankfurter Personenlexikon (in German). Archived from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- "Bildindex der Kunst & Architektur". Startseite Bildindex (in German). 15 December 2022. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- Germany – Tourist Guide. Michelin et Cie. Watford (UK) / Clermont-Ferrand (France), 1996. ISBN 2-06-150402-7. ISSN 0763-1383. (in English)
- Koons, Jeff; Ulrich, Matthias; Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Pissarro, Joachim; Hollein, Max; Liebieghaus; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2012). Jeff Koons : the painter & the sculptor. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-3371-7. OCLC 794364561.
- Gerhaert, Nicolaus; Gerhaert von Leiden, Nicolaus; Roller, Stefan; Liebieghaus; Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame Straßburg; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (2011). Niclaus Gerhaert - der Bildhauer des späten Mittelalters (in German). Petersberg. ISBN 978-3-86568-685-5. OCLC 1270291537.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Das Frankfurter Liebieghaus präsentiert erstmals Skulpturen des spätmittelalterlichen Meisters Niclaus Gerhaert". op-online.de (in German). 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ""Niclaus Gerhaert: The Medieval Sculptor" at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Artdaily. 27 October 2011. Archived from the original on 30 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- Torri, Valentina; Kreikenbom, Marianne (2001). Der heilige Abt : eine spätgotische Holzskulptur im Liebieghaus (in German). Berlin: Reimer. ISBN 3-496-01237-4. OCLC 48478994.
Further reading
- Setzepfandt, Wolf-Christian (2002). Architekturführer Frankfurt am Main / Frankfurt am Main : architectural guide / by Wolf-Christian Setzepfandt (in German). Berlin: Reimer. ISBN 3-496-01236-6. OCLC 50645225.
- Bildwerke aus dem Liebieghaus (in German). Frankfurt a.M: Städt. Galerie. 1962. OCLC 73261415.
- Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung; Städtische Galerie Frankfurt am Main (1910). Skulpturensammlung im Liebieghaus (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie. OCLC 551959969.
- Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Bückling, Maraike; Roller, Stefan; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (2008). Meisterwerke im Liebieghaus (in German). Petersberg: Fuldaer Verlagsanstalt. ISBN 978-3-86568-364-9. OCLC 226293476.
- Sonnabend, Martin (1990). Georg Swarzenski und das Liebieghaus (in German). Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-7973-0465-0. OCLC 612298776.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung; Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (2017). Eindeutig bis zweifelhaft : Skulpturen und ihre Geschichten (in German). Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-943215-09-0. OCLC 988365325.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Koch-Brinkmann, Ulrike; Blume-Jung, Clarissa; Henke, Felix; Kress, Bianca Larissa; Østergaard, Jan Stubbe; Piening, Heinrich; Primavesi, Oliver; Settis, Salvatore; Prestel Verlag (2020). Bunte Götter die Farben der Antike : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt am Main (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-7913-5936-6. OCLC 1126576107.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Bückling, Maraike; Liebieghaus (2022). Splendid white : die Elfenbeinsammlung Reiner Winkler im Liebieghaus : Alle Werke nun vereint! : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, ab 2. Juni 2022 (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-943215-18-2. OCLC 1333179859.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Liebieghaus (2013). Zurück zur Klassik : ein neuer Blick auf das Alte Griechenland : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 8. Februar bis 26. Mai 2013 (in German). München: Hirmer. ISBN 978-3-7774-2008-0. OCLC 829679886.
- Brinkmann, Vinzenz; Liebieghaus (2018). Medeas Liebe : und die Jagd nach dem Goldenen Vlies : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 5. Oktober 2018-10. Februar 2019 (in German). München. ISBN 978-3-7774-3114-7. OCLC 1059471041.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Breunig, Peter; Liebieghaus; Universität Frankfurt am Main; Nigeria. National Commission for Museums and Monuments (2013). Nok : ein Ursprung afrikanischer Skulptur : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt und der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt in Kooperation mit der National Commission for Museums and Monuments Abuja, Nigeria (in German). Frankfurt. ISBN 978-3-937248-38-7. OCLC 866950228.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung presents key artworks from the French Rococo in an exhibition". Artdaily. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
- "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung exhibits works by artist William Kentridge". Artdaily. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
External links

- Official website
- "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Museumsufer Frankfurt. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
- "Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung". Museen-in-Hessen (in German). Retrieved 30 December 2022.