The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in Frankfurt, Germany. It contains a sculpture museum, the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, which is part of the Museumsufer on the Sachsenhausen bank of the River Main. The collection comprises some 3,000 sculptures, spanning over 5,000 years of culture.
History
The Liebieghaus was built in 1896 based on designs by
Leonhard Romeis, in a palatial,
Historicism style, as a retirement home for the
textile manufacturer Baron (1839–1904).
The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection.
The first director of the Skulpturensammlung der Städtischen Galerie Frankfurt was .
In 1909, built a gallery wing extension to the villa, that was completed in 1990 by Scheffler and Warschauer.
A renovation was completed in October 2009.
Max Hollein was the director from January 2006 to 2016, followed by Philipp Demandt.
Collection
The museum includes ancient Egyptian, Greek,
Roman sculpture, as well as Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and
Classicism pieces, and works from the Far East.
The collection was built up mostly through endowments and international purchases.
The building stands on the Schaumainkai, in a garden in which a number of sculptures are also Sculpture garden, including a replica of Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther. The original, which was acquired by the banker Bethmann family in 1810, is in the depot.
Other major exhibits include:[ Germany – Tourist Guide. Michelin et Cie. Watford (UK) / Clermont-Ferrand (France), 1996. . ISSN 0763-1383. ]
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A marble discobolus
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A marble statue of Athena, a Roman copy of a Greek original by Myron
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Carolingian carved Ivory carving (mid-9th century)
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An Ottonian art crucifix (mid-11th century)
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A Romanesque king's head from a statue from the Île-de-France
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Fragments from a Florence tomb by Tino di Camaino (probably after 1318)
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An alabaster sculpture of the Trinity by Hans Multscher ( 1430)
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A Woman of the Apocalypse by Tilman Riemenschneider
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The Rimini Altar, an alabaster calvary from northern France ( 1430)
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A bust of Barbara von Ottenheim by Nikolaus Gerhaert (1463–64)
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Abbot Saint, a late Gothic wooden sculpture
Permanent exhibitions
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Splendid White – Reiner Winkler's ivory collection (gallery wing basement)
Temporary exhibitions
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2008/2009: Gods in Color
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2011/2012: Nikolaus Gerhaert. The Medieval Sculptor
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2012: Jeff Koons. The Sculptor (at the Liebieghaus)
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2013: Back to Classic. Ancient Greece reconsidered
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2015/2016: Dangerous Liaisons. The Art of the French Rococo
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2020/2021: Gods in Color – Golden Edition
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2021/2022: Mission Rimini
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2023/2024: Machine room of the gods
Gallery
Liebieghaus-iset-en-heb-ffm-002.jpg|Coffin of the priestess "Iset-en-kheb", Egypt
Athene des Myron Liebieghaus image01.jpg|Myron's Athena, Roman replica
Diskuswerfer Liebieghaus 2608.jpg|Discus thrower, Roman replica of a Greek statue possibly by Naukydes of Argos
Liebieghaus-hl.-abt-2011-ffm-079.jpg|Abbot Saint
Rimini-Altar Liebieghaus 01.jpg|Rimini Altarpiece
Andrea della Robbia Madonna della Cintola Liebieghaus.jpg|Andrea della Robbia Madonna della Cintola
Hans Multscher Maria Magdalena Liebieghaus 1039.jpg|Hans Multscher St. Mary Magdalene
Furie auf sprengendem Pferd.jpg| Spendid White: Master of the Furies Fury on a charging horse
Liebieghaus-2014-Ariadne-auf-dem-Panther-Ffm-410.jpg|Johann Heinrich von Dannecker's Ariadne on the Panther
Liebieghaus Schaudepot 1.jpg|show depot
See also
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Städel
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List of museums in Germany
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List of art museums
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Gods in Color
Notes
Further reading
- Exhibitions
- Exhibition Machine room of the gods
- Rimini Altarpiece
- Spendid White
- Purchases
External links
