Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Smith, Jeffrey Chipps

Titel

Dürer, Raphael, and Holbein in Early Civic and Princely Institutions: Frankfurt and Karlsruhe

Ist Teil von

• Albrecht Dürer and the Embodiment of Genius, 2020, p.87-106

Ort / Verlag

United States: Penn State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The rise of new museums in Munich and Berlin prompted other nobles and, soon, civic organizations to construct their own buildings.¹ A rivalry or competition of sorts developed as museums became highly visible, indeed requisite, signs of cultural status. Local, regional, or state pride was at stake even when few collections could match the quality and scope of those in Munich and Berlin. This chapter focuses on the Städel Kunstinstitut in Frankfurt, the first German museum created by the citizens of a town rather than by a noble or state authority, and the Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe, constructed by Leopold I,