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Stadel Museum acquires photographs from the Kicken Collection

The Städelsche Museums- Verein and the Städel Museum have acquired a comprehensive body of photographs from Rudolf and Annette Kicken. Apart from this purchase of a total of 524 works spanning from New Objectivity and Bauhaus photography to Subjective Photography, 649 photographs are handed over to the collection of the Städel as a generous donation by Rudolf und Annette Kicken. This compilation depicts the most important tendencies of European photographic art in the first half of the twentieth century and comprises icons of the history of the medium such as works by Leopold Ahrendts, Gertrud Arndt, Hugo Erfurth, Rudolf Koppitz, Heinrich Kühn, Man Ray, Albert Renger- Patzsch, Franz Roh, Werner Rohde, August Sander, and Otto Steinert. The outstanding body of 1,173 works closes a significant gap in the collection of the Städel and allows the Frankfurt museum to offer a survey of photography from its beginnings until the present under one roof with its Photography Collection which it has continuously built up since 2008. The art of photography and its historical development are thus given a permanent home in Frankfurt am Main by the Städel Museum. www.staedelmuseum.de