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Kunsthalle . Morning (1808) VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
This painting by Philipp Otto
Northern Germany's most interesting art Runge centres around Aurora, Practical Information
goddess of dawn, and was
gallery, the Kunsthalle has a tradition dating intended to be part of a series Glockengießerwall. Tel (040) 428
back to 1817, when the Kunstverein (friends of called “Times of the Day”. The 131 200. Open 10am–6pm Tue–
Wed & Fri–Sun, 10am–9pm Thu.
the fine arts), proudly middle-class and non- other works were never & Library: Open 11am–5pm
aristocratic, was established. It opened to the completed due to the Tue, Wed & Fri, 11am–9pm Thu.
artist’s untimely death
public in 1869. An extension was added in 1919 aged 33. Café: Open 10am–11pm Tue,
and the symbiosis of both buildings is called 17 Wed & Fri–Sun, 10am–9pm Thu.
∑ hamburger-kunsthalle.de
Lichtwark Galerie, after Alfred Lichtwark, the
first director of the Kunsthalle. The collection 15
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European art movements, with an emphasis on 12
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19th-century German Romantics, with works by 11 7 7
Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. . Hannah and Simeon in the Temple 10 6 6 19
A second four-storey extension, the Galerie der (around1627) With his mastery of a sense 9
of drama, Rembrandt succeeded in
Gegenwart (contemporary gallery), was built in depicting the psychological make- 8 5 20 24
1996 to a design by the architect O M Ungers. up of his elderly subjects, who 25
have recognized the Saviour 4 21 26
in an unspoken message 27
conveyed to the 3 34 22 28
temple by Mary 29
and Joseph. 2 33 23 23 30
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35 The Polar Sea (1823–4)
44 61 Caspar David Friedrich’s dramatic seascape, with a sinking ship in
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High Altar of St Peter in Hamburg (1383) 43 36 60 the background behind the rising flow, is loaded with symbolism.
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This panelled painting, displaying a 59
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stunning wealth of detail, was produced by 39 37 58
Master Bertram of Minden, the first artist in 42 38 57 Gallery Guide
Germany to be identified by his name. 56 On the ground floor, Rooms 54–63 house the
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Self-Portrait with Model the work of the museum makers. Also on this
(1910 and 1926) Sixteen 41 floor are prints, drawings and sculptures. On
years after first painting this the first floor, Rooms 1–15 contain works by the
picture, Ernst Ludwig 54 old masters. In Rooms 16–34, paintings from
Kirchner repainted areas, in the 19th century are exhibited, and Rooms
order to emphasize the 35–46 display Modern Art (1900–1960).
distance between model
and artist.
Nana (1877) The
subject of Édouard
Manet’s painting was
the heroine of a Zola
novel. Manet was not
allowed to exhibit the
painting in the Paris
Key Salon because Nana
. Girls on the Gallery of old masters was known as a
Pier (1901) This Parisian courtesan.
painting is one of six 19th-century paintings
variations on the same Modern Art (1900–1960)
theme painted by Edvard Drawings, prints and statues
Munch. The painter omitted
the landscape, concen trating Transparent Museum
on the relationship and Non-exhibition space
tensions between the girls.
Entrance
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