The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the largest art museum in northern Germany with an internationally renowned collection of works of art spanning 700 years – from the Middle Ages to the present day. With around 380,000 visitors annually from Germany and abroad, it is one of the most important art museums in Germany. In addition to the collection, the Hamburger Kunsthalle attracts international attention with top-class special exhibitions that attract thousands of visitors to the Hanseatic city every year.
More than 1,000 works can be seen permanently in the collection. The focus is on North German medieval painting with the altars of Master Bertram and Master Francke, Dutch painting of the 17th century, German painting of the 19th century with the extensive groups of works by Philipp Otto Runge, Caspar David Friedrich, Adolph Menzel and Max Liebermann, as well as classical modernism with works by Max Beckmann, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Edvard Munch and Paul Klee.
In the field of contemporary art, various contemporary positions give the Hamburger Kunsthalle an important voice in the current art scene. In addition to current exhibitions, you will also find artists from the excellent collection – including Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, Daniel Richter, Jenny Holzer – in changing presentations.
With its more than 140,000 drawings and prints, the Kunsthalle's Kupferstichkabinett is one of the most important in Germany because of the high quality of this collection.
The reference library is the most important art history library in northern Germany. 210,000 books, catalogues, magazines, CDs, DVDs and other media on artists and topics of art history are available.
