About the museum
The story of the Städel Museum
The Städel Museum in Frankfurt was founded in 1815 by the bequest of the banker Johann Friedrich Städel. It stands on the Museumsufer, the riverside row of museums along the Main.
Its collection covers seven centuries of European art, with Botticelli, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Monet, Kirchner and Beckmann, and a striking underground gallery for contemporary art.
The collection
Johann Friedrich Städel left his collection and fortune to found a museum and art school for the people of Frankfurt. Today the collection includes about 3,100 paintings, from Botticelli and Holbein to Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Its nineteenth- and twentieth-century galleries hold Goethe in the Roman Campagna, Monet, Degas, Kirchner and Beckmann, and it keeps a renowned collection of drawings and prints.
At ArtLogia you can order 84 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 71 artists led by Robert Campin, Carl Spitzweg and Rembrandt van Rijn.
- paintings to order
- 84
- artists
- 71
- art movements
- 16
- years covered
- 1405–1924
The building
The museum's building on the river Main, designed by Oskar Sommer, opened in 1878. In 2012 an underground extension by schneider+schumacher added galleries lit by 195 round skylights in the garden lawn above.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The underground extension's round skylights dot the museum garden and light the contemporary galleries below.
