About the museum
The story of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
The Hamburger Kunsthalle opened in 1869 beside Hamburg's main railway station and now spans three connected buildings. It is one of Germany's largest art museums.
Its greatest strength is German Romantic painting, with a famous group of Caspar David Friedrich, as well as old masters, Impressionists and modern art.
The collection
The Kunsthalle's collection covers seven hundred years of European art. Its old masters include Meister Bertram's Grabow Altarpiece, painted for a Hamburg church in the fourteenth century, and Dutch Golden Age painting.
Its German Romantics, with Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge, are among the best anywhere, and its nineteenth-century and modern galleries show Manet, Munch, Beckmann and the Expressionists.
At ArtLogia you can order 60 of its paintings as hand-painted reproductions, by 37 artists led by Caspar David Friedrich, Philipp Otto Runge and Max Liebermann.
- paintings to order
- 60
- artists
- 37
- art movements
- 14
- years covered
- 1426–1902
The building
The museum is made up of three buildings: the red-brick original of 1869, a domed extension of 1919, and the Galerie der Gegenwart, a white cube for contemporary art by Oswald Mathias Ungers, opened in 1997.
Masterpieces to see
Planning a visit
The museum is a two-minute walk from Hamburg Hauptbahnhof, on the shore of the Binnenalster lake.
