Kunsthalle Hamburg

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is one of Germany's largest art museums, spread across three connected buildings near the main railway station. Founded in the 1860s, its collections span seven centuries, from medieval altarpieces to nineteenth-century Romanticism and contemporary work. It is especially celebrated for its paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, including the iconic image of a lone hiker standing above a sea of fog. A stark modernist cube, the Galerie der Gegenwart, houses modern and contemporary art alongside vast print holdings.