Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Established	20 August 1869 (1869-08-20)
Location	Glockengießerwall 20095 Hamburg, Germany
Coordinates	53°33′18″N 10°00′11″E / 53.55500°N 10.00306°E / 53.55500; 10.00306
Type	Art museum
Visitors	382,000 (2013)[1]
Director	Alexander Klar
Owner	Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
Public transit access	Hauptbahnhof Nord
Website	hamburger-kunsthalle.de

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is the art museum of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany. It is one of the largest art museums in the country. It consists of three connected buildings, dating from 1869 (main building), 1921 (Kuppelsaal) and 1997 (Galerie der Gegenwart), located in the Altstadt district between the Hauptbahnhof (central train station) and the two Alster lakes.

The name Kunsthalle indicates the museum's history as an 'art hall' when it was founded in 1850. Today, it houses one of the few art collections in Germany that cover seven centuries of European art, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Its permanent collections focus on North German painting of the 14th century, paintings by Dutch, Flemish and Italian artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, French and German drawings and paintings of the 19th century, and international modern and contemporary art.