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17-644: The Schirn Kunsthalle is a Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the old city between the Römer and the Frankfurt Cathedral ; it is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank). The Schirn exhibits both modern and contemporary art. It is the main venue for temporary art exhibitions in Frankfurt. Exhibitions included retrospectives of Wassily Kandinsky , Marc Chagall , Alberto Giacometti , Bill Viola , and Yves Klein . The Kunsthalle opened in 1986 and

34-543: A new interior since 2012 that was designed by the Kuehn Malvezzi architectural office. It bathes the foyer in alternating colors of light with the aid of modern RGB lighting technology. The name "Schirn" derives from the history of its location. The word originally denoted an "open sales booth." The site on which the Schirn Kunsthalle is currently situated was Frankfurt's densely populated historic city center until it

51-484: Is director of the Schirn, succeeding Philipp Demandt . As of 2022, more than 250 exhibitions have been presented at the Schirn since its opening. These have included major survey exhibitions on, for example, Viennese Art Nouveau, Expressionism , Dada and Surrealism , on "Esprit Montmartre," women Expressionists, "German Pop," on the history of photography, and on subjects such as shopping, art and consumption, visual art of

68-677: Is financially supported by the city and the state. Historically, the German term "Schirn" denotes an open-air stall for the sale of goods, and such stalls were located here until the 19th century. The area was destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War and was not redeveloped until the building of the Kunsthalle. As an exhibition venue, the Schirn enjoys national and international renown, which it has attained through independent productions, publications, and exhibition collaborations with museums such as

85-572: Is located in Frankfurt's historic city center. Faced with light sandstone, it consists of several interlocking structures, each of which features a geometric floor plan. The most prominent structural element is an approximately 140-meter-long and 10-meter-wide 6-story hall, the actual exhibition building, which runs from east to west. Bangert designed the longhouse to resemble the Uffizi building in Florence. Additional structural elements are arranged somewhat to

102-807: The Centre Pompidou , the Tate Gallery , the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the Hermitage Museum , or the Museum of Modern Art . 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). The opening took place on 28 February 1986. The Kunsthalle has an overall exhibition space of more than 2,000 m (22,000 sq ft). The Schirn

119-571: The German-speaking regions of Europe , Kunsthallen are often operated by a non-profit Kunstverein  [ de ] ("art association" or "art society"), and have associated artists, symposia, studios and workshops. They are sometimes called a Kunsthaus . The term kunsthalle is a loanword from the German Kunsthalle , a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns Kunst (art) and Halle (hall). Like all nouns in German,

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153-534: The Schirn as an exhibition venue. His successor was Hellmut Seemann  [ de ] . The Austrian Max Hollein was the director from 2001 to 2016. In 2006 Hollein also took over the directorship of the Städel Museum and the Liebieghaus . With exceptional exhibitions, provocative titles, and improved financial resources he has increased the number of visitors to the Schirn threefold. Since 2022, Sebastian Baden

170-631: The Stalin era, the Nazarenes, and new Romanticism in contemporary art. As of 2022, more than 9.5 million people have visited the Schirn. Monograph exhibitions have been presented on artists such as Yves Klein , Wassily Kandinsky , Alberto Giacometti , Henri Matisse , James Ensor , James Lee Byars , Yves Klein , László Moholy-Nagy , Georges Seurat , Odilon Redon , Phillip Guston , Jean-Michel Basquiat , Edvard Munch , Théodore Géricault , Frida Kahlo and Helene Schjerfbeck . Recent exhibitions: Some of

187-1038: The exhibition venues, museums, and art societies that can be considered as kunsthalles. Hellmut Seemann Look for Hellmut Seemann on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Hellmut Seemann in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

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204-443: The exhibitions with the most visitors in the history of the Schirn are: Contemporary artists such as Peter Doig , Bill Viola , Jeff Koons , Doug Aitken , Thomas Hirschhorn , Carsten Nicolai , Jonathan Meese , John Bock , Terence Koh , Aleksandra Mir , Eberhard Havekost , Mike Bouchet  [ fr ] , Julian Schnabel , Yoko Ono and Tobias Rehberger have been presented in solo exhibitions. Kunsthalle In

221-410: The monumental main entrance. It is the Schirn's highest structure and consists of a single open space, through which one enters the Schirn. After passing through the rotunda, a chasm cut into the building runs along the old Bendergasse . A further semicircular structural element follows to the north, beyond Bendergasse, which with a somewhat more than twofold radius features the same center of circle as

238-638: The rotunda. This structure, separated from the main exhibition building by Bendergasse, houses the Schirn Café. 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. The Schirn has had

255-464: 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. 18 x 25 m), and adjoining it, parallel to the longhouse, an elongated rectangular expansion. The second most prominent structural element besides the main exhibition building follows on the north side of the main axis: the sky-domed rotunda, approximately twenty meters in diameter, which constitutes

272-757: The word is written with an initial capital letter . In English, it should be written with a lower-case letter ( kunsthalle ) unless it is the first word of a sentence or part of a title. The plural form Kunsthallen is usually rendered as kunsthalles . The term is translated as kunsthal in Danish, kunsthal in Dutch, kunstihoone in Estonian, taidehalli in Finnish, kunsthall in Norwegian and konsthall in Swedish. This list contains

289-584: Was destroyed during the Second World War, on 22 March 1944. 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. Christoph Vitali  [ de ] was the director of the Schirn from 1985 to 1993, and during that same period the chief executive of the Kulturgesellschaft Frankfurt mbH. He established

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