Founded in 1815 as a civic foundation by banker and merchant Johann Friedrich Städel, the Städel Museum is considered the oldest and most prestigious museum foundation in Germany. Under one roof, the collection offers an almost seamless overview of 700 years of European art history—from the early 14th century through the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical Modernism to the immediate present. The collection includes approximately 3,000 paintings, 600 sculptures, over 4,000 photographs, and more than 100,000 drawings and prints. Highlights of the collection feature works by artists such as Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Dürer, Sandro Botticelli, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Beckmann, Alberto Giacometti, Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Isa Genzken.