Overview
- Frankfurt’s Liebieghaus exhibition is now open and is scheduled to run through 3 May 2026.
- Reports differ on scope, with reviews citing 93 works or roughly one hundred pieces, drawn in part from the nearby Stiftung Giersch holdings.
- Curators Vinzenz Brinkmann and Jakob Salzmann stage pointed juxtapositions, notably Gaul’s orangutan portrait “Jumbo” beside a bust of Marcus Aurelius.
- Reconstructed and contextualized public commissions include life‑size sheep and a Hermes from Hamburg’s Neue Klöpperhaus, the Wertheim bear fountain, and references to the Begas monument eagle and lions.
- Reviews emphasize Gaul’s anti‑academic naturalism informed by Darwin‑era thinking, inviting fresh readings of anthropomorphism and contemporary “animal content.”