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Caricatura Museum Frankfurt

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).

History

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 in the Altstadt. The permanent exhibition shows works by F. W. Bernstein, Robert Gernhardt, , , 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").

Former temporary exhibitions

2008:
  • – Komische Welten (2 October 2008 – 11 January 2009)
2009:
  • – Hurra, die Krise ist vorbei (29 January – 26 April 2009)
  • – Löhleins Katze (7 May – 26 July 2009)
  • ATAK () and Fil () – Superpeter – Struwwelpeter Superheld (6 August – 20 September 2009)
  • Titanic – das Erstbeste aus 30 Jahren (3 October 2009 – 31 January 2010)
2010:
  • – 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)
  • Haderer (7 July – 27 November 2011)
  • Tomi Ungerer – Satiricon (8 December 2011 – 18 March 2012)
2012:
  • – 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)
  • – Lachsack statt Airbag (18 July – 3 November 2013)
  • Sowa - Weltfremde Malerei (14 November 2013 – 16 March 2014)
2014:
  • Ralf König – Paul vs. Paulus (27 March – 3 August 2014)
  • (14 August – 16 November 2014)
  • Kamagurka – How to become a German. Die Deutschwerdung des Kamagurka (27 November 2014 – 22 March 2015)
2015:
  • – Auch das noch! (2 April – 13 September 2015)
  • Gerhard Seyfried (27 September 2015 – 24 January 2016)
2016:
  • (11 February – 12 June 2016)
  • Sebastian Krüger (30 June – 30 October 2016)
  • Stern-Humor (10 November 2016 – 12 March 2017)
2017
  • (23 March – 23 July 2017)
  • (3 August – 3 December 2017)
  • Robert Gernhardt (15 December – 15 April 2018)
2018
  • Otto – Die Ausstellung (25 April – 2 September 2018)
  • Volker Kriegel – (13 September 2018 – 20 January 2019)
2019
  • (7 February – 12 May 2019)
2023

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