Name: Holbein
Start: 2023-11-02
End: 2024-02-18
Location: Städel Museum

Look forward to exceptional works by Hans Holbein the Younger, Hans Holbein the Elder, Hans Burgkmair, Albrecht Dürer and other famous artists. As a special highlight, the masterful Holbein Madonna will once again be on display in Frankfurt after more than 10 years. Encounter the fascinating painting of the Renaissance of the North, which began its splendid heyday in Augsburg.

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About the Exhibition

It was a turning point in the history of art: Renaissance painting. What had begun in Italy developed into something completely new in Northern Europe in the works of the painters Hans Holbein the Elder (ca. 1464–1524) and Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531), pioneers of this singular art. Its centre was the free imperial and mercantile city of Augsburg, which became the capital of a German—but also an international—Renaissance within just a few decades. None other than Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543), one of the German Renaissance’s greatest painters, would ultimately make this art known throughout Europe.

Hans Holbein the Younger (ca.1497–1543)
Solothurn Madonna, 1522
Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531)
Portrait of a young man, 1506
Jan van Eyck (ca. 1390–1441)
Lucca Madonna, ca. 1437

The Städel Museum is prized far and wide for its major Old Masters exhibitions. After Rubens, Rembrandt and Reni, it now holds yet another exceptional show in store for the public. The Städel Museum is presenting the Renaissance in the North—a new and entirely unique style of painting that originated more than 500 years ago in the North of Europe at the threshold from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern period.

Philipp Demandt, Director, Städel Museum

The Städel Museum is devoting an exhibition to this fascinating art-historical epoch. For the first time, it will bring together the most important paintings, drawings and prints of Holbein the Elder and Burgkmair in a presentation further enhanced by works of other Augsburg artists of the period from around 1480 to 1530 as well as prominent works by their colleagues active elsewhere in Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Masters such as Albrecht Dürer, Donatello, Jan van Eyck and Hugo van der Goes had a lasting impact on the art of Holbein the Elder and Burgkmair. Uniting some 130 important works from leading international museum collections, the show will offer an overview of the various stylistic particularities of Northern Renaissance painting. A highlight of the Frankfurt show will be the presentation of the two masterworks by Hans Holbein the Younger: “The Madonna of Mayor Jacob Meyer zum Hasen” (1526–1528) from the Würth Collection and the “Solothurn Madonna” (1522) from the Kunstmuseum Solothurn.

An exhibition of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Curator, Städel Museum
Prof. Dr. Jochen Sander (Deputy Director and Head of German, Dutch and Flemish Paintings before 1800)

St presse Madonna Buergermeister web — **Hans Holbein the Younger (ca.1497–1543)**
Madonna of the mayor Jacob Meyer zum Hasen, 1525/26 and 1528

St presse Solothurner Madonna web — **Hans Holbein the Younger (ca.1497–1543)**
Solothurn Madonna, 1522

St presse burgkmair christus am oelberg 1505 — **Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531)**
Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1505

St presse Solario salome ca 1520 24 — **Andrea Solario (ca. 1460–1522)**
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, ca. 1520/24

Jan van Eyck, Lucca Madonna, ca. 1437 — **Jan van Eyck (ca. 1390–1441)**
Lucca Madonna, ca. 1437

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall, ca. 1535 - 1540 — **Hans Holbein the Younger (ca.1497–1543)**
Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall, ca. 1535-1540

St presse Hans Burgkmair Bildnis eines jungen Mannes mit Rosenkranz 1506 neu — **Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531)**
Portrait of a young man, 1506

Hans Holbein the Elder, Portrait of a Member of the Weiss Family of Augsburg, 1522 — **Hans Holbein the Elder** **(ca.1460/70–1524)**
Portrait of a Member of the Weiss Family of Augsburg, 1522

Around 1500, Augsburg was one of the leading art centres north of the Alps. Among the artists of this period, the colleagues and rivals Holbein the Elder and Burgkmair the Elder were especially prominent. Representing the range of stylistic possibilities encompassed by Northern Renaissance painting, their works would come to influence entire generations of later artists, as we see in the paintings of Holbein the Younger.

Jochen Sander, curator of the exhibition, Städel Museum

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