Frankfurt

Watercolours from the Städel Museum Collection Department of Prints and Drawings  |  Art, 10 2 2008 - 01 4 2009 The exhibition encourages spectators to explore the great diversity of this ambitious technique by means of outstanding examples from the collection's own holdings, up to the recent present. Vedute, landscapes viewed from close up or at a distance, such atmospheric impressions as cloud studies, still lifes, as well as seemingly surreal pictorial inventions by Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, Carl Philipp Fohr, Carl Rottmann, Carl Morgenstern, Rudolf von Alt, Louis Eysen, Paul Cézanne, Lovis Corinth, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Georg Baselitz, Claes Oldenburg, and many other prominent artists attest to a virtuoso handling of the brush in combination with water-soluble, glazing paint. Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Opening hours: Tuesday, Friday to Sunday 10 am to 6 pm  Wednesday and Thursday 10 am to 9 pm / Monday closed Admission: Gallery and exhibitions € 8 /concessions € 6 http://www.staedelmuseum.de

Peter Doig  |  Art, 10 9 2008 - 01 4 2009 The SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT is pleased to present a major retrospective of one of the most important and influential painters working today. Peter Doig. The show provides an overview of the artist's complex themes and his technical development as a painter over the last twenty years. Approximately fifty paintings, a group of works on paper, as well as more than 130 film posters painted in connection with his cinema project, the STUDIOFILMCLUB in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Image: PETER DOIG PORTRAIT Photo: Gaby Gerster SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT Römerberg d-60311 Frankfurt - Germany Hours: Tuesday, Friday - Sunday 10 am - 7 pm Wednesday - Thursday 10 am - 10 pm Admission: 8 € / reduced 6 € http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de

Focus on Auguste Rodin  |  Sculptures, 10 10 2008 - 03 22 2009 The sixth exhibition within the series "Focus on"… revolves around a group of bronze figures entitled Faun, not quite 40 cm high, by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.  Imagen: Eugène Druet Rodin at His Studio Musee Rodin, Paris Photo: Musee, Rodin Paris Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Opening hours: Tuesday, Friday to Sunday 10 am to 6 pm  Wednesday and Thursday 10 am to 9 pm / Monday closed Admission: Gallery and exhibitions € 8 /concessions € 6 http://www.staedelmuseum.de

RENÉ MAGRITTE 1948 LA PÉRIODE VACHE  |  Art, 10 30 2008 - 01 4 2009 While only sporadically included in most retrospectives of Magritte's oeuvre, the works from the période vache will be assembled in the exhibition at the Schirn outside France and Belgium for the first time. Especially against the background of the last thirty years' art, this concentrated presentation will shed a new, surprising light on an extraordinary artist. Read the complete article in REVIEWS Image: Réne Magritte, L'Ellipse, 1948 SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT Römerberg d-60311 Frankfurt - Germany Hours: Tuesday, Friday - Sunday 10 am - 7 pm Wednesday - Thursday 10 am - 10 pm Admission: 8 € / reduced 6 € http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de

Master of Flémalle  |  Old Masters, 11 21 2008 - 02 22 2009 The Master of Flémalle (frequently identified with the artist Robert Campin, active in Tournai) and Rogier van der Weyden (who demonstrably worked in Campin's workshop from 1427 to 1432) are – besides the van Eyck brothers – of crucial importance for the birth and the beginnings of Early Netherlandish painting. Both the Städel Museum in Frankfurt and the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin boast incomparable holdings as regards the Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden, which will be brought together in this exhibition for the first time. Image: Rogier van der Weyden Portrait of a Young Woman Oak panel, 34,5 x 20,3 cm Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie Photo: Jörg. P. Anders Städel Museum Schaumainkai 63, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Opening hours: Tuesday, Friday to Sunday 10 am to 6 pm  Wednesday and Thursday 10 am to 9 pm / Monday closed Admission: Gallery and exhibitions € 8 /concessions € 6 http://www.staedelmuseum.de

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