The Digital Archive of the Städelschule 1920 to 1950

The Digital Archive of the Städelschule 1920 to 1950 is a digitization project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), which has been realized in cooperation with the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library since January 2024. The funding period is three years. The aim of this initiative is to preserve and make accessible the largest and decentralized collection of archive material on the history of the Städelschule through digitization and virtual consolidation in order to make it available to students, researchers, artists and the interested public. A feasibility study preceded the project and took place between 2020 and 2023. As part of the study, around 34,700 pages of archival material (e.g. written documents, photographs, prints and paintings) were identified in the Städelschule archive, the Städel Museum and the Institute of City History.

Partners

Dr. Daniela Poth, Dr. Mathias Jehn, Agnes Brauer, Michelle Kamolz (JCS UB, Frankfurt)

Expert Advisory Board 

Dr. Helen Barr (Art Historian, Art History Institute, Goethe University), Prof. Daniel Birnbaum (Professor of Philosophy and Art Education, Städelschule), Prof. Dr. Barbara Clausen (Rector and Professor of Curatorial Studies, Städelschule), Prof. Willem de Rooij (Artist and Professor of Fine Arts, Städelschule), Prof. Philippe Pirotte (Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies, Städelschule), Prof. Willem de Rooij (Artist and Professor of Fine Arts, Städelschule), Prof. Philippe Pirotte (Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies, Städelschule), Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother (Professor of Provenance Studies, Leuphana University), Andreas Schieberle (Scientific Associate, h_da, Darmstadt), Dr. Iris Schmeisser (Head of Provenance Research, Städel Museum), Dr. Stefan Schmunk (Professor of Information Science and Digital Libraries, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences), Dr. Sebastian Tripp (Deputy Head of Neue Abteilung, Digital Long-Term Archive, ISG, Frankfurt), Dr. Nicola Wurthmann (Head of Department, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Wiesbaden), Thorsten Wübbena (Head of Digital Historical Research, Leibniz Institute of European History)

Sponsor 

The project is made possible by the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG). The feasibility study was made possible by the generous support of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art.

Team 

Barbara Clausen, Christin Groß-Narten, Christian Frisch, Caroline Fuchs, Constantin Heine, Begüm Inal

Contact 

Begüm Inal 
Project Coordinator/ Scientific Associate 

Daimlerstr. 32
60314 Frankfurt am Main

Telephone: +49 (0) 176 15000065
beguem.inal@staedelschule.de