20 March 2008 – 17 August 2008

The Magic of Things. Still Life Painting 1500-1800

The exhibition "The Magic of Things. Still Life Painting 1500-1800" at the Städel Museum consists of well over 80 masterpieces. It retraces the evolution of still-life painting in the northern and southern Netherlands as well as Germany from its preliminary stages in the late fifteenth century to its heyday in the late eighteenth century. To this end, it unites the superb holdings of three museums - the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and the Kunstmuseum Basel - while also further enhancing them with selected loans from other collections, public and private. As a result, the show spreads out a panorama of the still life's development and various manifestations spanning more than two and a half centuries, devoted as much to the prosaic works of the early seventeenth century as to the later extravagant assemblages, as much to various types of "meals" as to copious bouquets of flowers, as much to picturesque animal still lifes as to scientifically oriented ones.


Curator: Jochen Sander, Adjunct Professor

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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