Due to building measures for the expansion of the Städel Museum, several artworks from the collection cannot be shown at the moment. These paintings were lent to exhibitions abroad but can presumably be seen again at the Städel Museum in the…

In the Städel’s most famous painting of the Old German school, the courtly charm of the Late Gothic “Soft Style” is combined with realistic observation of nature: Twenty-four plants and twelve species of birds can be identified. Hoopoe and golden…

Aertsen’s market piece dates from the beginnings of Netherlandish still-life painting. The New Testament story of Christ and the adulteress (John 8:3-11) is engulfed by the rich abundance of wares. The Biblical scene, however, is the key to…

The art of drawing with a fine stick of silver on primed paper was practised above all in the early era of draughtsmanship – the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. The author of the Man with a Falcon was a master in achieving the lively…