It was a very hot Sunday, but hey, the day was planned and booked. And hot days call for what: correct, short dresses! During the day, Franziska visited the “Städel” museum at the “Museumsufer” in Frankfurt. “Museumsufer” is the colloquial name for a stretch along the south bank of the river Main, where you can find numerous museums. The “Städel” museum is a civic foundation, set up more than 200 years ago by Johann Friedrich Städel. My wife and I love this museum and frequently visit the changing exhibitions. And as you will see throughout the coming posts in this blog, Franziska loves to have pictures of herself taken in front of works of art.
Portrait of the day.
This is one of the best-known paintings in the “Städel” of our national poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, painted in front of the Roman Campagna by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. There are some curiosities about this painting, but most famously, it was the template for Andy Warhol’s 1982 depiction of Goethe – also on display at the “Städel.”
A fun picture of the reflection in a tiled mirror wall at the museum. In the background right, you get a glimpse of Warhol’s Goethe, in a way similar to his Marilyn, Mao, and Muhammad Ali.
A couple of weeks later, Franziska’s male alter ego visited the “Städel” as well and took the very same picture of this reflection. I joined those images of my male and my female appearance in one picture. Maybe I will share that with you one day.
I love this picture – as well as the painting. As if I had planned it.
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