Exit the Hauptbahnhoff toward the City Center. The Kunsthalle is directly right from the train station.
Points of Interest
If you are an art lover, The Hamburger Kunsthalle (Art Museum) is directly across the street from the Hauptbahnhof and is the largest and one of the most important art museums in Germany, housing over 3000 paintings and 400 sculptures ranging from the Masters to Modern Artists, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Horst Janssen.
The gallery has a huge collection ranging from the Middle Ages to the present. The earliest pieces are from the 14th century and logically are religious in nature. The museum has works from most 17th-century Dutch masters, including Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and Pieter de Hooch. The museum’s collection of 19th-century German artists is impressive and includes large sections of Romantic works by such artists as Casper David Friedrich.
The sections on Subjectivity and Classical Modern Art are also large, with works by Menzel, Marc, Kandinsky, Max Liebermann, Edvard Munch, and the der Blauer Reiter and Die Brücke groups. Paul Klee’s Der Goldfisch] is exhibited here as well as works by Picasso, Rouault, Delaunay and Derain.
The original building was built in 1869 and was expanded with the very modern and often controversial Gallerie der Gegenwart, presenting New Modernist art from 1960 onwards.
Information and Fees
Hamburger Kunsthalle COST: EUR 8.50.
OPEN: Tues., Wed., and Fri.-Sun. 10-6, Thurs. 10-9.
