Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

The Kunsthalle from above in the northwest
Established	28 February 1986; 38 years ago (1986-02-28)
Location	Römerberg, Altstadt, Museumsufer, Frankfurt
Coordinates	50°06′37″N 8°41′01″E / 50.11028°N 8.68361°E / 50.11028; 8.68361
Type	Kunsthalle, Art museum
Visitors	401,514 (2017)[1] 308,137 (2018)[2]
Director	Sebastian Baden
Architects	BJSS
Owner	Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main GmbH, City of Frankfurt
Public transit access	Dom/Römer (1 min) 11, 12, 14 Römer/Paulskirche (3 min)
Website	schirn.de

The Schirn Kunsthalle is a

The Kunsthalle Schirn was designed and built beginning in 1983 by the Architekturbüro BJSS [de] (Dietrich Bangert, Bernd Jansen, Stefan Jan Scholz, and Axel Schultes).^[5] The opening took place on 28 February 1986.^[6] The Kunsthalle has an overall exhibition space of more than 2,000 m² (22,000 sq ft).^[7]

The Schirn is located in Frankfurt's historic city center. Faced with light sandstone, it consists of several interlocking structures, each of which features a geometric floor plan. The most prominent structural element is an approximately 140-meter-long and 10-meter-wide 6-story hall, the actual exhibition building, which runs from east to west.^[8] Bangert designed the longhouse to resemble the Uffizi building in Florence.^[9]

Additional structural elements are arranged somewhat to the west of the middle of this longhouse along an imaginary transverse axis: to the south, facing Saalgasse, a multistory cube with a rectangular floor plan (ca. 18 x 25 m), and adjoining it, parallel to the longhouse, an elongated rectangular expansion. The second most prominent structural element besides the main exhibition building follows on the north side of the main axis: the sky-domed rotunda, approximately twenty meters in diameter, which constitutes the monumental main entrance. It is the Schirn's highest structure and consists of a single open space, through which one enters the Schirn.

After passing through the rotunda, a chasm cut into the building runs along the old

The Schirn has had a new interior since 2012 that was designed by the Kuehn Malvezzi architectural office. It bathes the foyer in alternating colors of light with the aid of modern RGB lighting technology.^[11]

The name "Schirn" derives from the history of its location. The word originally denoted an "open sales booth."^[8] The site on which the Schirn Kunsthalle is currently situated was Frankfurt's densely populated historic city center until it was destroyed during the Second World War, on 22 March 1944.^[12] The sales booths of the city's butchers' guild stood in the narrow alleys between today's Schirn and the Main River until the mid-19th century.

Directors

Christoph Vitali [de] was the director of the Schirn from 1985 to 1993, and during that same period the chief executive of the Kulturgesellschaft Frankfurt mbH.^[13] He established the Schirn as an exhibition venue. His successor was Hellmut Seemann [de].^[14] The Austrian Max Hollein was the director from 2001 to 2016.^[15] In 2006 Hollein also took over the directorship of the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus.^[16] With exceptional exhibitions, provocative titles, and improved financial resources he has increased the number of visitors to the Schirn threefold.^[17] Since 2022, Sebastian Baden is director of the Schirn, succeeding Philipp Demandt [de].^[18]

Exhibitions

As of 2022^[update], more than 250 exhibitions have been presented at the Schirn since its opening.^[19][20] These have included major survey exhibitions on, for example, Viennese Art Nouveau, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism, on "Esprit Montmartre," women Expressionists, "German Pop," on the history of photography, and on subjects such as shopping, art and consumption, visual art of the Stalin era, the Nazarenes, and new Romanticism in contemporary art. As of 2022^[update], more than 9.5 million people have visited the Schirn.^[20]

Modern art exhibitions

Monograph exhibitions have been presented on artists such as

• Marc Chagall "World in Turmoil" with paintings from the 1930s and 1940s between 4 November 2022 to 19 February 2023 (243,582 visitors).^{[39][40][41][42][43]}
• Niki de Saint Phalle "Die Retrospektive" between 3 February 2023 and 21 May 2023^[44][45]
• Lyonel Feininger, Retrospektive between 27 October 2023 and 18 February 2024^[46][47]

Some of the exhibitions with the most visitors in the history of the Schirn are:

• Wassily Kandinsky "The First Soviet Retrospective" (1989)^[48] (189,385 visitors)^[49]
• Henri Matisse "Drawing with Scissors" (2003)^[50] (138,234 visitors)^[51]
• "Women Impressionists—Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond" (2008)^[52] (184,793 visitors)^[49]
• Edvard Munch "The Modern Eye" (2012)^[53][54][55] (213,177 visitors)^[49]
• "Esprit Montmartre. Bohemian Life in Paris around 1900" (
  Toulouse-Lautrec) (2014)^[56] (186,512 visitors)^[49]

Contemporary artists such as Peter Doig,^[57] Bill Viola,^[58] Jeff Koons,^[59] Doug Aitken,^[60] Thomas Hirschhorn,^[61] Carsten Nicolai,^[62] Jonathan Meese,^[63] John Bock,^[64] Terence Koh,^[65] Aleksandra Mir,^[66] Eberhard Havekost,^[67] Mike Bouchet [fr],^[68] Julian Schnabel,^[69] Yoko Ono^[70] and Tobias Rehberger^[71] have been presented in solo exhibitions.

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See also

• Frankfurt art theft (1994)

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Further reading

• "Schirn Kunsthalle, 1979–1986". Das Museumsufer Frankfurt. De Gruyter. 16 December 2019. pp. 54–59.
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• Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2016). 30 Jahre Schirn das Magazin zum Jubiläum (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunsthalle.
  OCLC 956685473
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• Bachmann, Luise; Rohde, Pamela; Schlingmann, Freya; D'Atri, Dawn Michelle; Reinhardt, Sophie; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2016). Aller guten Dinge sind dreissig : 30 Jahre Schirn (in German). Frankfurt: Schirn Kunsthalle.
  OCLC 958003857
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• Gerlach, Laura J. (2007). Der Schirnerfolg die "Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt" als Modell innovativen Kunstmarketings ; Konzepte – Strategien – Wirkungen (in German). Bielefeld.
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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Schirn Kunsthalle.

• Official website (in German and English)
• "Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt". Museumsufer Frankfurt. 9 November 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2022.
• Schirn Kunsthalle's online magazine
• Exhibitions since 2002