Polychromy Research Project

“Bunte Götter – Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur”. With great success, an exhibition presenting the results of many years of investigations on polychromy was presented at the Munich Glyptothek, the Vatican Museums and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen in 2003 and 2004. Since then the show has been touring the world as a travelling exhibition.

With support from the Stiftung Archäologie in the form of new investigations and reconstructions, the exhibition concept had been continually updated until 2015. Each presentation thus reflected the state of the art in this field. The Stiftung Archäologie did promote exhibition projects on the phenomena of polychromy from 2005-2015. This task had been handed over to the Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project in 2016.

"De oudheid en kleur. Hoe antieke standbeelden er echt uitzagen.", Gallo-Romeins Museum, Tongeren, Belgium, 21. October 2023- 2. July 2024, in cooperation with Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung

Major contribution to "Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color", Metropolitan Museum New York, 5 July 2022 - 26 March 2023

"Bunte Götter - Golden Edition. Die Farben der Antike", Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 30 January 2020 - 26 September 2021

Managed and organised by the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt: "Gods in Color", Fine Arts Museums, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 28 October 2017- 7 January 2018

Managed and organised by the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt: "Dioses en color", Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 7 October 2016-January 2017

Major contribution to "Defining Beauty. The Body in Ancient Greek Art", The British Museum London, 26 March to 5 July 2015.

"Gods in Colour": Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity", Ashmolean Museum Oxford, Cast Gallery, January to August 2015 (in cooperation with the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt).

Major contribution to "Transformations: Classical Sculpture in Colour", Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 13 September to 7 December 2014.

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur", Museum der Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 11 April to 10 August 2014 (in cooperation with the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt).

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur", Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 13 November 2012 to 29 September 2013.

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur", Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, from 28 June 2012.

"Die Artemis von Pompeji und die Entdeckung der Farbigkeit griechischer Plastik", Winckelmann-Museum Stendal, 3 December 2011 - 29 April 2012 (in cooperation with the O. Primavesi Leibniz Project).

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur", Antikenmuseum und Abguss-Sammlung, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, 29 October 2011 to 20 May 2012.

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur. Ausstellung und Schauwerkstatt", Sammlung der Gipsabgüsse, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, 6 March to 16 October 2011.

"Vita Lögner", Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, 9 October 2010 to 30 January 2011.

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur", Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Antikensammlung, Pergamonmuseum, 13 July to 3 October 2010 (in cooperation with the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt; sponsors: Caparol, Arteimedia, Lorenz Reibling).

"El color de los dioses", Museo Arqueológico Regional de la comunidad de Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, 18 December 2009 to 18 April 2010, with support from the Freunde des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Madrid.

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur", Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Antikensammlung, 6 March to 1 June 2009, in cooperation with the Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung Frankfurt.

"Bunte Götter: Die Farbigkeit der antiken Skulptur", Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 8 October 2008 to 15 February 2009 (sponsors: Skoda, Bank of America, Caparol).

"Begegnung in Bunt: Farbfassungen antiker chinesischer und griechischer Plastik im Vergleich", Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke, Munich, 18 June to 29 August 2008.

"Color of Life", Getty Villa Malibu, 6 March to 23 June 2008 (in cooperation with the J. Paul Getty Museum).

"Gods in Color - Painted Sculpture of Classical Antiquity", Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, 22 September 2007 to 20 January 2008 (sponsor: Taurus Investment).

"Bunte Götter – Die farbenfrohe Welt der Alten Griechen", Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, 4 April to 1 July 2007 (in cooperation with the Glyptothek, Munich).

"Polychromoi Theoi", National Archaeological Museum of Athens, 29 January to 24 March 2007 (a cooperation of the Glyptothek, Munich with the Goethe-Institut, Athens, the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Athens and the German Embassy in Athens; sponsors: Allianz, Siemens, HypoVereinsbank).

Reconstruction of the polychromy of Antiope on the pediment of the Temple of Apollo in Eretria for the exhibition "Penelope rekonstruiert: Geschichte und Deutung einer Frauenfigur", Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke in Munich, 10 October to 15 December 2006.

Reconstruction of the polychromy of a Cycladic idol of the Museum of Cycladic Art (The Nicholas P. Goulandris History in Athens) (in cooperation with Elizabeth Hendrix of MIT, Cambridge USA.

"Renkli Tanrilar", Istanbul Archaeology Museum (Topkapi), 21 April to 30 September 2006 (a cooperation project of the Glyptothek, Munich and the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut in Istanbul; sponsor: Koc-Stiftung, Kulturstiftung der türkisch-deutschen Wirtschaft, GOM Braunschweig). We are indebted to Semuh S. Adil.

"KLEUR! Bij Grieken en Etrusken", Allard Pierson Museum Amsterdam, 2 December 2005 to 26 March 2006.

"Bunte Götter – Die Farbigkeit antiker Skulptur", Skulpturhalle Basel, 11 August to 20 November 2005 (in cooperation with the Glyptothek, Munich).