Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

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).[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.[10] A rectangular opening has been incorporated into the east end of this structural element in which an approximately three-story tall, oversized table with no specific purpose once stood at the street level, which was demolished within the scope of the Dom-Römer Project, the reconstruction of Frankfurt's historic city center, in August 2012."[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.[20] Monograph exhibitions have been presented on artists such as Yves Klein,[21] Wassily Kandinsky,[22] Alberto Giacometti,[23] Henri Matisse,[24] James Ensor,[25] James Lee Byars,[26] Yves Klein,[27] László Moholy-Nagy,[28] Georges Seurat,[29] Odilon Redon,[30] Phillip Guston,[31] Jean-Michel Basquiat,[32][33] Edvard Munch,[34] Théodore Géricault,[35] Frida Kahlo[36][37] and Helene Schjerfbeck.
The Kunsthalle and preserved Ancient Roman ruins (with a hypocaust ), seen from the east, before the beginning of the Dom-Römer-Project 2009
Rotunda inside the Schirn
RömerbergAltstadtMuseumsuferCoordinatesKunsthalleArt museumDom/RömerhypocaustRömerFrankfurt Cathedralart exhibitionsWassily KandinskyMarc ChagallAlberto GiacomettiBill ViolaYves KleinSecond World WarCentre PompidouTate GallerySolomon R. Guggenheim MuseumHermitage MuseumMuseum of Modern ArtUffiziSaalgasseBendergasseDom-Römer ProjectKuehn MalvezziMax HolleinStädelLiebieghausPhilipp DemandtExpressionismSurrealismHenri MatisseJames EnsorJames Lee ByarsLászló Moholy-NagyGeorges SeuratOdilon RedonPhillip GustonJean-Michel BasquiatEdvard MunchThéodore GéricaultFrida KahloHelene SchjerfbeckNiki de Saint PhalleLyonel FeiningerMary CassattMarie BracquemondPicassoVan GoghToulouse-LautrecPeter DoigJeff KoonsDoug AitkenThomas HirschhornCarsten NicolaiJonathan MeeseJohn BockTerence KohAleksandra MirEberhard HavekostJulian SchnabelYoko OnoTobias RehbergerFrankfurt art theft (1994)FAZ.NETFrankfurter RundschauDer SpiegelDie Welt