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 Loriot
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