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European Masters: a collection from the Staedel  Museum in Frankfurt opened at the National Gallery of Victoria as part of the Melbourne Winter Series a couple of days ago.
Work by Monet, Degas, Picasso and Munch,Cézanne, Beckmann and Renoir;  big names in the European Art scene of the 19th and 20th century, will be on display together with more then sixty other artists.
The Staedel  Museum in Frankfurt was founded in 1815 by Johann Friedrich Staedel a local banker and business man. Today's visitors are able to admire around  2.800  paintings, 600 sculptures and over  100.000 drawings and prints from a period that spans more then 700 years of European art. The Museum is situated at the banks of the river Main in the trendy suburb of Sachsenhausen.
Travelers to Frankfurt have the chance to see the current exhibition, a retrospective of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner until 25 Juli 2010. But they have to be prepared to put up with a bit of building work. The old Staedel Museum has outgrown it's old walls and a big extension is currently being build. The main gallery is therefor closed and a large part of it's artwork has travelled to Melbourne, leaving European shores for the first time.
European Masters at the NGV International, St Kilda Road, from 19 June until 10 October 2010
open daily 10am–5pm
art after dark: open until 9pm every Wednesday.
