Geschlechter Kampf Web Design

About Städel Museum

This digitorial from the Städel Museum accompanies the exhibition Geschlechterkampf, Franz von Stuck bis Frida Kahlo, shown from 24 November 2016 to 19 March 2017. It presents controversial artistic positions on male and female identity, from the emancipation debates of the mid-19th century onwards.

Web design inspiration

A painted woman crowned with skulls and ravens fills the screen, and the word Geschlechterkampf is cut into two lines of very large white capitals laid over her. A thin white diagonal crosses the picture, cutting through both the painting and the title. The serif dates and artist names contrast with the heavy sans-serif title, a clear typographic hierarchy for an exhibition page.

UX and navigation

There is no menu: a language button EN, a share button and a small i tab on the right edge frame the opening, and an arrow in a circle invites the visitor to scroll. Further down, the story opens with a question, Was sind Sie?, and chapters such as Die Welt steht Kopf and Sex sells. On mobile, the dates shorten to a numeric form and the title sits over the painting in the same way: the UX is a guided scroll rather than navigation.

Observed in November 2026