The Liebieghaus is a late 19th-century villa in
Frankfurt
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,
Germany
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. It contains a sculpture museum, the ''Städtische Galerie Liebieghaus'', which is part of the
Museumsufer
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on the
Sachsenhausen
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bank of the
River Main
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.
Max Hollein
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was the director from January 2006 to 2016, followed by .
History
The Liebieghaus was built in 1896, in a palatial,
Historicist
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style, as a retirement home for the
Bohemia
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n textile manufacturer Baron Heinrich von Liebieg (1839–1904).
The city of Frankfurt acquired the building in 1908 and devoted it to the sculpture collection.
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.
Collection
The museum includes ancient
Greek
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,
Roman
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and
Egyptian sculpture, as well as Medieval, Baroque, Renaissance and
Classicist
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pieces, and works from the Far East.
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
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, 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:
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*A marble
discobolus
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*A marble statue of
Athena
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, a Roman copy of a Greek original by
Myron
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*
Carolingian
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relief
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s carved
from ivory (mid-9th century)
*An
Ottonian
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crucifix (mid-11th century)
*A Romanesque king's head from a statue from the
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*Fragments from a
Florentine tomb by
Tino di Camaino
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(probably after 1318)
*An alabaster
sculpture of the Trinity by Hans Multscher (c.1430)
*A
Woman of the Apocalypse
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by
Tilman Riemenschneider
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*The Rimini Altar, an alabaster
calvary
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from northern France (c.1430)
*A late-Gothic/early-Renaissance bust of Bärbel von Ottenheim, the mistress of Jakob von Lichtenberg (the ''
Vogt
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'' of
Strasbourg
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), by
Nikolaus Gerhaert
Nikolaus Gerhaert (c.1420 – 28 June 1473), also known as Nikolaus Gerhaert van Leyden, was a Dutch sculptor, although aside from his sculptures, few details are known of his life. He worked in both stone and wood.
Biography
Gerhaert is consi ...
(1463–64).
Temporary exhibitions
* 2012: ''Jeff Koons. The Sculptor (at the Liebieghaus)''
* 2011/12: ''Niclaus Gerhaert. The Medieval Sculptor''
Gallery
Liebieghaus-hl.-abt-2011-ffm-079.jpg, Abbot Saint, unknown artist
Liebieghaus Schaudepot 1.jpg, show depot
Liebieghaus-maria-magdalena-hans-multscher-070.jpg, St Mary Magdalene, Hans Multscher
Liebieghaus-2014-Ariadne-auf-dem-Panther-Ffm-410.jpg, Dannecker's ''Ariadne on the Panther''
See also
*
Museumsufer
Museumsufer (Museum Embankment) is the name of a landscape of museums in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, lined up on both banks of the river Main or in close vicinity. The centre is the historic art museum Städel. The other museums were added, partly ...
*
List of museums in Germany
*
List of art museums
Africa
Algeria
* Algiers: Museum of Modern Art of Algiers, Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
* Oran: Ahmed Zabana National Museum
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Egypt
* Cairo: Egyptian Museum, Museum of ...
Notes
Further reading
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External links
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Die neue Antike: una visita alle sale di scultura classica della Liebieghaus di FrancoforteAnna Anguissola, ''LARTTE'', 30 October 2009.
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