24 November 2006 – 11 March 2007

The painter's garden: design, inspiration, delight

Gardens offer people protection, relaxation, and inspiration. Such artificial paradises have also spurred painters over the centuries to produce masterpieces. The painterly aspects are as varied as the meaning of the garden itself: a wall surrounds the garden in medieval paintings, to exclude evil from its magical realm. For Peter Paul Rubens, the garden is a private living space. Caspar David Friedrich saw himself as a mediator between humankind and nature. For Vincent van Gogh the garden was a projection screen for his melancholy. Impressionists such as Claude Monet planted lavish, imaginatively composed gardens as models and then captured them in splendidly colorful paintings flooded with light. Renoir’s lilacs, Manet’s dahlias, Degas’s meadows, and Pissarro’s fruit trees became symbols of a new, sensitive style of painting.
Curator: Dr. Sabine Schulze

Address

Städel Museum / Städtische Galerie
Schaumainkai 63
60596 Frankfurt am Main
phone +49 69 605 09 80
http://www.staedelmuseum.de

Opening Hours

Tuesday, Friday-Sunday 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday 10 a.m. - 9 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

700 years of European history are represented in a collection of 2,700 paintings, 600 sculptures and 100,000 prints and drawings by artists ranging from Dürer, Holbein and Cranach to Rembrandt, Vermeer, Monet, Van Gogh and Cézanne to Matisse and Picasso, Bacon and Baselitz, Serra and Palermo.

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