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Städel Museum
Frankfurt's art museum holds 700 years of European art, from the Middle Ages to today, with work by Vermeer, Botticelli, Monet and Beckmann.
History of the museum
The banker Johann Friedrich Städel left his art collection and fortune in 1815 to found an art institute, one of the first museums in Germany created by a private citizen rather than a ruler. The museum grew with gifts from citizens of Frankfurt. A garden hall for modern art was built beneath the museum's courtyard in 2012.
Top pieces
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The Geographer Johannes Vermeer, 1669
In our gallery from here (9)
The GeographerJohannes Vermeer · 1668
Lucca MadonnaJan van Eyck · 1437
Idealized Portrait of a Lady (Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci as Nymph)Sandro Botticelli · 1482
Ecce HomoHieronymus Bosch · 1490
Medici MadonnaRogier van der Weyden · 1460
Goethe in the Roman CampagnaJohann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein · 1787
Madonna with child and Saint John the BaptistPietro Perugino · 1497
The Croquet GameÉdouard Manet · 1873
Free Period in the Amsterdam OrphanageMax Liebermann · 1881