Johann Conrad Seekatz, Christian Georg Schütz and Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern were Frankfurt celebrities. The late-eighteenth-century “Goethe painters” were contemporaries of Johann Friedrich Städel. In addition, works by earlier German painters, such as Heinrich Roos, and southern landscapes in the style of Claude Lorrain were exhibited here as well.
By 1835, three landscapes with biblical and mythological figures by Joseph Anton Koch had also been integrated, namely between the windows and above the tableau with Frankfurt paintings on the west wall. The Städelsches Kunstinstitut had had these works in its possession for a number of years (inv.-no. 767, 848, 849).