Permanent Collection

The permanent collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle reflects art from eight centuries and ranks among the most substantial public art collections in Germany. The Kunsthalle also belongs to the few museums to offer its audience a richly layered tour through European art history from the Middle Ages to the present.

The Hamburger Kunsthalle houses one of Germany’s most important collections of European art, with several iconic masterpieces as Caspar David Friedrich – Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (c. 1818) one of the most famous images of German Romanticism. The solitary figure contemplating a vast landscape has become a symbol of introspection and the sublime