Städel Museum
Frankfurt, Germany
The Städel Museum, formally the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, is an art museum in Frankfurt, Germany, and one of the most important art collections in the country. It was founded in 1815 through the bequest of the banker Johann Friedrich Städel, making it one of the oldest museum foundations in Germany.
Its collection spans seven centuries of European art, from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, Baroque and modern movements to contemporary work. Among its Old Master holdings is The Geographer by Vermeer, one of the artist's few surviving paintings of a single male figure.
