Caricatura Museum Frankfurt

About

The Caricatura Museum, official name Caricatura Museum für Komische Kunst, is a museum for comic art in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. It shows a in a permanent exhibition works by the artists of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and additionally exhibitions of contemporary artists. It is part of Frankfurt's Museumsufer (Museum Riverbank).

In 2000, a group called Caricatura of the Historical Museum, Frankfurt, began to prepare a museum for comic art in Frankfurt. The Caricatura Museum was opened on 1 October 2008 in the Leinwandhaus [ de ] in the Altstadt. The permanent exhibition shows works by F. W. Bernstein, Robert Gernhardt, Chlodwig Poth [ de ], Hans Traxler [ de ], and F. K. Waechter, including literary works and films. It is complemented by readings, book presentations and other events.

The trade mark of the museum is a bronze sculpture in front of the building by Hans Traxler. The Elch sculpture carries the names of the eight most important representatives of the Neue Frankfurter Schule, and a two-line poem by F. W. Bernstein, "Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche / waren früher selber welche" ("The harshest critics of the moose / used themselves to be some").

- Bernd Pfarr [ de ] – Komische Welten (2 October 2008 – 11 January 2009) 2009

- Greser & Lenz [ de ] – Hurra, die Krise ist vorbei (29 January – 26 April 2009)

- Hans Traxler [ de ] – Löhleins Katze (7 May – 26 July 2009)

- ATAK ( Georg Barber [ de ] ) and Fil ( Philip Tägert [ de ] ) – Superpeter – Struwwelpeter Superheld (6 August – 20 September 2009)

- Titanic – das Erstbeste aus 30 Jahren (3 October 2009 – 31 January 2010) 2010

- Chlodwig Poth [ de ] – Poth für die Welt (11 February – 25 April 2010)

- Franziska Becker – Letzte Warnung (27 May – 19 September 2010)

- Guido Sieber and Franz Dobler — Die Geschichte der Populären Musik (30 September 2010 – 30 January 2011) 2011

- Jean-Marc Reiser – Vive Reiser! (10 February – 26 June 2011)

- Tomi Ungerer – Satiricon (8 December 2011 – 18 March 2012) 2012

- Nikolaus Heidelbach [ de ] – Wurst, Wein, Weihnachten, Wild und Gemüse (29 March – 29 July 2012)

- Marie Marcks (9 August – 11 November 2012)

- Caricatura VI – Die Komische Kunst (22 November 2012 – 3 March 2013) 2013

- F. W. Bernstein – Zeichenzausels Werkschau (14 March – 7 July 2013)

- Rattelschneck [ de ] – Lachsack statt Airbag (18 July – 3 November 2013)

- Sowa Hurzlmeier [ de ] Kahl [ de ] - Weltfremde Malerei (14 November 2013 – 16 March 2014) 2014

- Ralf König – Paul vs. Paulus (27 March – 3 August 2014)