Rail travel: Travel by ICE, IC to Würzburg or Bamberg then take the

local train to Schweinfurt. At the Central Station hop on to a Route

11 bus, alighting at Rossmarkt. Afterwards proceed on foot heading

for the direction of Rathaus (Town Hall). Alternatively you might like

to stroll along the River Main from Schweinfurt Central Station and

Schweinfurt City Centre.

Air travel: Book your flight to the Frankfurt / Main, Munich and

Nuremberg airports.

Travel by car: Proceed along motorways A3, A7, A70 or A71.

(Parking facilities are available in the underground car park under-

neath the Museum in Brückenstraße. Coaches are requested to use

the Wehranlage car park).

Bikers: Please observe the white / green signs marked Main-Radweg.

By riverboot: Disembark at the mooring jetty Main lände where

you will find the Georg Schäfer Museum situated directly opposite

(access via stairs).

On foot: The Museum is situated in Schweinfurt City Centre right

next to the Town Hall (Rathaus). Bus stop: Marktplatz

Museum Georg Schäfer SchweinfurtBrückenstraße 20

97421 Schweinfurt, Germany

Phone: +49 9721 51 4820 / 51 4830 / 51 4825

Fax: +49 9721 51 4831

E-Mail: mgs@schweinfurt.de

www.museumgeorgschaefer.de

Tuesdays to Sundays: 10 – 17 h

Open Thursdays until 21 h

Closed on December 24 and 31.

Free entry to the whole building every

first Tuesday of the month.

For booking guided tours and private events

please call +49 9721 51 4830 / 20,

Weekend enquires dial box office phone 51 4825.

Consulting times for visitors, teachers, school children

and other interested parties Mondays 09 – 14h,

Side entrance Brückenstraße 20

Please visit our website for further details

on our museum facilities.

Our bookstore and Café Pictura are available

during the museum opening times.

Phone: +49 9721 60 50004

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GERMAN ART 1760 TO 1930

ART EDUCATION

The Museum opens up new prospects for exploring the distinctive

features of 19th century art. The permanent collection enhanced by

special exhibitions (paintings and graphic arts) and complemented

by lectures, concerts, readings and side events all serve to throw

light on the great complexity distinguishing this unique epoch. The

Museum regards itself as a forum for international dissemination of

art emanating from this period. Since art education appeals to all

age groups, one of the prime objectives focused on is to stimulate

the visitor’s interest. Special promotion facilities include for example

guided tours conducted in dialogue style or workshops for children

and young persons. These are augmented by guided group tours,

highlights being company excursions and special birthday events.

The Children’s Museum – open for several months each year –

invites youngsters of all ages to come along and paint or experiment

in special theme rooms. In addition, holiday workshops are staged

as well as an ART FOR CHILDREN series each Sunday.

The Teacher Training Academy specialises in interactive training fa-

cilities for primary and secondary school teachers. The aim of these

courses is to provide teachers with stimulating ideas and guidelines for

classwork while encouraging visits to the Museum with their pupils.

Information on current events will be gathered from our home-

page www.museumgeorgschaefer.de. Bookings for guided tours

and private parties can be made by phoning +49 9721 51 4830 / 20

(weekend enquiries contact box office phone 51 4825). Art Educa-

tion Centre consulting hours: Mon. to Fri. 9 – 13 h (side entrance

Brückenstr. 20).

The Georg Schäfer Museum provides facilities spread over three

levels. Level 1: Service facilities. Level 2: Rooms for temporary exhi-

bitions. Level 3: Skylight rooms for a representative selection culled

from the Museum’s collection of paintings.

Das Museum Georg Schäfer bietet auf drei

Ebenen Service-Einrichtungen (Ebene 1),

Räume für Wechselausstellungen (Ebene 2)

und Oberlichtsäle für eine repräsentative

Auswahl aus der Gemäldesammlung

(Ebene 3). „Dank für die schönen Eindrücke, die ich

nach Brasilien mitnehme.“

Eintrag ins Museumsbuch, 2005

„Wir kommen extra aus Karlsruhe hier her ...“

Besucher der Austellung ʻBrückeʼ, 2005

„Des war fei arch sche!“

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Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt

Brückenstraße 20

97421 Schweinfurt

www.museumgeorgschaefer.de

Tel: 09721 - 51 4820 / 51 4830

Kasse 09721 51 4825

Mit dem Zug: per ICE, IC bis Würzburg oder

Bamberg, umsteigen in den Regionalzug

nach Schweinfurt

Mit dem Flugzeug: Flughäfen Frankfurt am

Main, München und Nürnberg

Mit dem Auto: über die Autobahnen A3,

A7, A70 oder A71

(Parkplätze finden Sie in der Tiefgarage unter

dem Museum / ausgeschildert als Parkhaus P2

in der Brückenstraße. Busse bitte in den

Wehranlagen parken).

Mit dem Fahrrad: Bitte beachten Sie die

weißgrünen Schilder Main-Radweg.Mit dem Schiff: Bei Halt an der Mainländefinden Sie das Museum Georg Schäfer gleich

gegenüber (Zugang über Treppenaufgang).

Zu Fuß: Das Museum liegt in der Innenstadt

von Schweinfurt gleich am Rathaus (Bushal-

testelle Marktplatz).

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E-Mail: mgs@schweinfurt.de

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ÖFFNUNGSZEITEN

Dienstag – Sonntag 10 – 17 Uhr

donnerstags bis 21 Uhr

geschlossen am 24., 25. und 31. Dezember

MUSEUMSPROGRAMM

Öffentliche Führungen:

samstags und sonntags 15 Uhr

Kinderprogramm: sonntags 15 Uhr

Gallery Talk, Abendtreff: Donnerstag 19 Uhr

Bitte beachten Sie unsere Internetseite für weitere

Details zu unserem Museumsprogramm.

Der Museumsshop und das Café sind während der

Museumsöffnungszeiten für Sie geöffnet.

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12 The Nazarene Movement

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8 Leibl and the „How“

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Building Layout: Level 3

The tour begins in Room 10.

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller:

The four-year old Countess E.

looking out of a vine-covered window,

1821, oil on canvas, MGS 2999

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The works contained in the collection do not focus on any specific

school or centre of art. Instead they provide an overview of virtually

all artistic movements prevalent in the German-speaking world.

These include the Viennese School practised by ‘Fin de Siècle’ artists

which overlapped into the 20th century. Occasional departure from

the canon upheld by established artists formed one of the major

ideas pursued by the collector with the aim of drawing attention

to the qualities in the works of forgotten artists. 19th century art

already found itself in a volatile state of appraisal even at the time

it originated. The new presentation of the paintings undertaken

in September 2017 addresses this aspect both in terms of group

dynamics and solitary artists. This is enhanced by a chronologically

structured tour of the exhibition and a colour scheme designed

to reflect what are occasionally vehement stylistic and epochal

incongruities.

Museum highlights distinguished on account of their art-historical

significance include for instance Franz Pforr’s painting Shulamith

and Mary, Caspar David Friedrich’s Evening on the Baltic or Adolph

von Menzel’s Court Circle in the Presence of Emperor Wilhelm I. The

Museum boasts a collection of more than 100 works originating

on loan in prestigious museums during his lifetime. On the other

hand, his museum planning operations – involving celebrities such as

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe – had still to wait until attaining fruition. His

heirs contributed with roughly 1,000 paintings and 4,650 drawings –

forming the hard core of the collection. These were incorporated into

the collection of the Dr. Georg Schäfer Foundation set up in 1997.

They have since been complemented by a whole number of further

additions (2005, 2016 and 2017) as well as other significant items

exhibited on loan. Thus the Georg Schäfer Museum houses the most

important private collection of 19th century artworks stemming from

the German-speaking world.

The Free State of Bavaria financed the establishment of the Museum

and as such is the owner of the building. The building client, the

City of Schweinfurt, is the municipal body responsible for running

the Museum with financial support coming from the Foundation. The

strong ongoing commitment of all involved makes it possible to make

this fine collection available to the public.

from Menzel: paintings including gouache paintings and drawings.

Carl Spitzweg is represented by the world’s largest collection

numbering 160 paintings and 120 drawings including such public

favourites as The Bookworm and The Intercepted Love Letter. With

a display of over forty works, the Romantic Era forms another key

area of the collection; a broad range of high-quality Nazarene panel

paintings is also on view. The above-mentioned series of works

extending from C. D. Friedrich to Max Liebermann are joined by

further groups painted by Hans Thoma and artists led by Wilhelm

Leibl. Outstanding examples turned out by lesser-known masters

include Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld or Wilhelm Wach.

The collection of prints and drawings exhibited at the Georg

Schäfer Museum comprises examples accomplished applying a

whole number of different techniques plus 180 sketchbooks and

roughly 200 prints. Akin to the collection of paintings, the prints

and drawings on display range from the late 18th century and

protrude into the early 20th century. They cover portraits, historical

scenes, scenes from the Bible and ancient mythology, genre studies,

caricatures as well as landscapes and animals. Well-known names are

superbly represented, comprising to a large extent works on paper.

Carl Spitzweg: The Bookworm, c. 1850,

oil on canvas, MGS 2265

Max Slevogt: Dance of Death / Masquerade Ball, 1896, oil on canvas, MGS 4306

Lovis Corinth: Bacchante Couple, 1908, oil on canvas, MGS 4787

Max Liebermann: Old Men’s Quarters in Amsterdam, 1881, oil on panel, MGS 2372

Inaugurated in 2000, the Georg Schäfer Museum in Schweinfurt never

fails to attract international attention. An architectural masterpiece

designed by Volker Staab, the building houses a unique collection

of paintings and sketches ranging from 1760 to 1930. These include

significant groups of works stemming from individual artists as for

example Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Spitzweg, Ferdinand Waldmüller

or Adolph von Menzel right through to such impressionists as

Max Slevogt, Lovis Corinth and Max Liebermann. Sophisticated

temporary exhibitions are staged featuring works on loan, serving

to enhance an historical epoch full of social and political tension,

a period full of divergent and all too often conflicting trends that

prevailed in the world of art. Thus the l’art-pour-l’art movement

emerged almost simultaneously with the demand for a new German

national style. This unleashed major upheavals, reassessed values,

multiple changes in style and not least the birth of modernism.

As regards quality and scope, the Georg Schäfer Collection is in

a league with the German art collections on display in Berlin’s Alte

Nationalgalerie and the Neue Pinakothek in Munich. The collection has

its roots going back to the 1950s when it initially came to be compiled

by the Schweinfurt industrialist and collector Dr. Georg Schäfer, Dr.

honoris causa (1896-1975). Many works had already been exhibited

Personalities include Johann Georg von Dillis, Wilhelm von Kobell,

Ludwig Richter, Carl Spitzweg, Adolph von Menzel, Wilhelm Leibl,

Rudolf von Alt, Hans Thoma, Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth and

Max Slevogt. In addition to what in their own right are picturesque

masterpieces, the collection also includes sketches and studies as

well as preparatory work for graphic art reproductions, allowing the

observer to experience the production process and the techniques

employed by the artists, thus imparting a deep insight into the

multifaceted art of drawing prevalent during the 19th century.

Regrettably, in the interest of conservation and due to their

sensitivity to light, the works cannot be placed on permanent

display. Individual prints and drawings nevertheless feature in special

exhibitions. On application, works can be presented in the study

room for research purposes. In addition, the Museum preserves

various archives including the Spitzweg archives of Hans Wilhelm

Schmidt along with the Günther Roennefahrt estate as well as the

archives of Jens Christian Jensen and Siegfried Wichmann.

THE MUSEUM

Dr. Georg Schäfer, Dr. honoris causa

(1896 – 1975)

THE COLLECTION OF PAINTINGS

PRINTS, DRAWINGS AND ARCHIVES