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Exhibitions

Bas Jan Ader (1942–1975) In Search of the Miraculous (One Night in Los Angeles), 1973 © The Estate of Bas Jan Ader / Mary Sue Ader Andersen, 2024 / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024. Courtesy of Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas

Bas Jan Ader

I’m searching…

Until 24.08.2025
Wolfgang Tillmans (*1968) Isa Mona Lisa, 1999, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Dauerleihgabe der Sammlung Schmitz-Morkramer Courtesy Galerie Buchholz © Wolfgang Tillmans

Isa Mona Lisa

Until 18.10.2026
Fedele Maura Friede (*1997) eigentlich räumt niemand gerne auf (Installationsansicht HGB Galerie 2024), 2024 © Fedele Maura Friede Foto: Viktoria Conzelman

FEDELE MAURA FRIEDE. the hem comes undone

Horst Janssen Prize of the Claus Hüppe Foundation

Until 07.09.2025
Hanns Kunitzberger (*1955) ABBILD 2002–2005 Komposition, Sätze I, II, III, IV – jeweils mit 4 Gemälden 1 bis 16, 2002–2005, © Hanns Kunitzberger

Hanns Kunitzberger

Likeness 2002-2005

Until 27.04.2025
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) Lampionkorso auf der Außenalster, 1913 Öl auf Leinwand, 37,5 x 47,5 cm © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk Foto: Elke Walford

Impressionism

Franco-German Encounters

Until 20.07.2025
Raumansicht Makart-Saal mit dem Werk Der Einzug Karls V. in Antwerpen, 1878, von Hans Makart (1840–1884), Mitte links © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk Foto: Fred Dott

Making History

Hans Makart and the Salon Painting of the 19th Century

Until 31.12.2026

Preview

Edi Hila (*1944), House Surrounded by Wall (aus der Serie Transitional Landscapes), 2000 © Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Mitterrand
25.04.2025

Edi Hila | Thea Djordjadze

13.06.2025

RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS

Surrealism and German Romanticism

Anders Zorn (1860-1920), Mitternacht, 1891, Zornmuseet, Mora © Zornmuseet,
26.09.2025

ANDERS ZORN

Swedish Superstar

Gerhard Richter (*1932) Schweizer Alpen 1, 1969, Hamburger Kunsthalle, erworben 1971 von der Griffelkunst- Vereinigung Hamburg e. V. © Gerhard Richter Foto: Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg e. V.
07.11.2025

And so on to infinity

100 Years of Griffelkunst

Auguste Desperet (1804–1865) Dritter Ausbruch des Vulkans von 1789, 1833, Privatsammlung, Hamburg
05.12.2025

ART AROUND 1800

An Exhibition about Exhibitions

Edvard Munch, Mädchen auf der Brücke, 1901, © Hamburger Kunsthalle Foto: Elke Walford
27.03.2026

Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch

Flow of Paint = Flow of Life

Exhibition archive

2025

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Illusion

Dream – Identity – Reality

Henrik Olesen (*1967) A.T., 2019, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Schenkung Alexander Schröder, 2024 © Courtesy Galerie Buchholz

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IN.SIGHT

The Donation Schröder

Albert Oehlen (*1954) Ohne Titel / Untitled, 1992 Siebdruck, Acryl und Öl auf Leinwand, 200 x 200 cm Privatsammlung © Albert Oehlen / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 Foto: Lothar Schnepf

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Albert Oehlen

Computer Paintings

Odoardo Fialetti, Radierer (1573–1638) Schüler beim Zeichnen, 1608, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk

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Nudes, Antiquity, Anatomy

Exploring the world through drawing

Manon de Boer *1966 / Latifa Laâbissi (*1964), Ghost Party (2), 2022, (Still) © Courtesy Jan Mot gallery and the artists

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untranquil now

a constellation of narratives and resonances

2024

Jakob Kudsk Steensen (*1987), The Ephemeral Lake, 2024, Live-Simulation (Still), Commissioned by Hamburger Kunsthalle © Courtesy the artist

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THE EPHEMERAL LAKE

A digital installation by Jakob Kudsk Steensen

Georges Adéagbo (*1942), Vorbereitung des Werks in Benin, April 2024 © Foto: Stephan Köhler

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Georges Adéagbo

has created a new work for the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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something new, something old, something desired

William Blake (1757–1827) Europe a Prophecy, 1794 Relief- und Weißlinienradierung, koloriert, 30,3 x 23,1 cm © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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William Blake's Universe

Kathleen Ryan, Bad Cherries, 2021, 250,19 x 254 x 280,67 cm Private Collection of Timothy C. Headington © Kathleen Ryan. Courtesy the artist and Karma, Foto: Lance Brewer

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Kathleen Ryan

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer, um 1817

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Caspar David Friedrich

Art for a new Age

Henri Joseph Harpignies (1819-1916) Frau auf einem Waldweg (Detail), 1880 Aquarell, 280 x 400 mm Sammlung Wormsbächer, Hamburg © Foto: Christoph Irrgang, Hamburg

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FIGURE AND LANDSCAPE

Nineteenth-Century Art from two Private Hamburg Collections

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OUTSTANDING!

The Relief from Rodin to Taeuber-Arp

2023

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Walid Raad

Cotton Under My Feet: The Hamburg Chapter

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NO ILLUSIONS

Painting in Space

Alt Text hier

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PERISCOPIC!

Pop and Agitation in Werner Nöfer’s Graphic Art

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1923

The Faces of an Era

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Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter

DOUBLE VISION

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On Hybrid Creatures

Sculpture in Modernism

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»Paris Is My Library«

Drawings and Prints by Félicien Rops

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Femme Fatale

Gaze – Power – Gender

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BREATHING

2022

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Viermalvier / Fourtimesfour

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Give and Take. Images upon Images

8th Triennial of Photography, 2022 – Currency

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Ernst Wilhelm Nay

Retrospective

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Class Society

Everyday Life as Seen by Dutch Masters. With Lars Eidinger and Stefan Marx

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»I USUALLY PRIME WITH CHALK…«

Emil Nolde’s Painting Technique

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FUTURA

Measuring Time

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From Menzel to Monet

The Wolffson Collection in Hamburg

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TOYEN

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Werner Büttner

Last Lecture Show

2021

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UNFINISHED STORIES

Stories from the Collection

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OUT OFSPACE

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SERENA FERRARIO

Where the Drawings Live

Erwin Speckter (1806–1835), zugeschrieben, nach Raffael, eigentlich Raffaello Santi oder Sanzio (1483–1520) Merkur schwebt vom Olymp herab, (Kopie nach der Figur in der Loggia der Villa Farnesina, Rom), 1830/35 Gouache, 580 x 442 mm (Blatt) © Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupfer-stichkabinett / bpk Foto: Christoph Irrgang

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Raphael

The Impact of a Genius

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Back then has always been now

Painting since 1947 reconsidered

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Series

Prints from Warhol to Wool

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Walter Gramatté and Hamburg

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DE CHIRICO

Magical Reality

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The Absurd Beauty of Space

Seven Artists vs. Ungers

2020

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Mourning

On Loss and ChangeMourning

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Goya, Fragonard, Tiepolo

The Freedom of Imagination

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With-One-Another

at the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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100 Years of the Hamburg Secession

Encounters with the Collection

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Rembrandt

Masterpieces from the Collection

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again and against

From the Collection of Contemporary Art

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Edith Dekyndt

They Shoot Horses

2019

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Consistent. Controversial. New.

Insights into 150 Years

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In the Light of the North

Danish Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection

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The Video is the Message

The Media Collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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HAMBURG SCHOOL

The 19th Century Rediscovered

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Leonardo da Vinci

The Drawings in the Kupferstichkabinett

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KP Brehmer

Correction of National Colours

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Familiar Yet Unknown

Friedrich Einhoff in the Hamburger Kunsthalle Collection

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MY PERSPECTIVE

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[Out of] Balance

Sammlungspräsentation

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Honey, I Rearranged The Collection

#3 Bouncing in the Corner. Surveying Space

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Heinrich Reinhold

Tracing the Landscape

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Philippe Vandenberg

Kamikaze

2018

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Nature Unleashed

The Image of Catastrophe since 1600

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[CONTROL] NO CONTROL

Triennal of Photographie Hamburg

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Uncharted Territory: Jose Dávila

The Elephant and the Feather

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PLAY YOUR DREAMS

At the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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Thomas Gainsborough

The Modern Landscape

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Artist’s Books

The Collection

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Anita Rée

A Retrospective

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The Light of the Campagna

Drawings by Claude Lorrain from the British Museum in London

2017

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Art and Alphabet

Lovis Corinth, Nach dem Bade -Strumpf anziehende Frau, 1906,Kohle und weiße Kreide auf festem bräunlichem Papier, 48,5 x 32 cm, © Hamburger Kunsthalle / bpk Foto: Christoph Irrgang

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Collecting for Hamburg

New Acquisitions and Donations forThe Department of Prints and Drawings, 2001–2016

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Art is Public

From Kunstverein to Kunsthalle

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Open Access

13 Views into the Collection

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WAITING.

Between Power and Possibility

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The Poetry of Venetian Painting

Paris Bordone, Palma il Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto, Titian

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Woodcuts from the Age of Titian

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Drawing Rooms II

Trends in Contemporary Graphic Art

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Uncharted Territory: Haegue Yang

Quasi-Pagan Serial

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Dalí, Ernst, Miró, Magritte ...

Surreal Encounters from the Collections Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller, Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch

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Clemens von Wedemeyer

Affected Places

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Looking for Traces

Drawings and Watercolours from Three Centuries. - extended until 08 Jan. 2017

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Seeing with the Inner Eye

Seeing with the Inner Eye

2016

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Drawing Rooms

Trends in Contemporary Graphic Art

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Manet

Painting the Gaze

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Piranesi

Carceri

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Eckersberg — Fascination with Reality

The Golden Age of Danish Painting

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Nolde in Hamburg

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Franz Ludwig Catel

Images of Italy in the Romantic period

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SPOT ON

Masterpieces from the Hamburger Kunsthalle collection

2015

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When there is hope

Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2015

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Enchanted Time

Cézanne, Van Gogh, Bonnard, Manguin Masterpieces from the Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser-Bühler Collection

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The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s

Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna

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ars viva 2014/15

2014

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Lichtwark revisited

Artists' views of Hamburg

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C’EST LA VIE

The Paris of Daumier and Toulouse-Lautrec

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Transformation of the World

The Romantic Arabesque

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Feuerbach’s Muses – Lagerfeld’s Models

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Serial Attitudes

Repetition as an artistic method since the 1960s

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Drawn on Stone

French Lithographs from the Hegewisch Collection and Department of Prints and Drawings

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Gego

Line as Object

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Eva Hesse

One More than One

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The Beauty of the Line

Stefano della Bella as a Draughtsman

alfredflechtcom

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Alfred Flechtheim.com

Art Dealer of the Avant-Garde

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Denmark's Breakthrough to Modernism

Denmark's Breakthrough to Modernism

2013

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R.B. Kitaj

The Retrospective

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Richard Long

Prints 1970 - 2013

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15 years of the Gallery of Contemporary Art

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Jean Leppien

From the Bauhaus to the Mediterranean

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Jochen Lempert

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Monika Grzymala

Mono Meros

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Fail Better

Moving Images

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Paul Klee

Engel

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A Life for Hamburg

Oscar Troplowitz

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Giacometti

The Playing Fields

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Franz Erhard Walther

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Annette Wehrmann

Brain and Money

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Captivated by Darkness

Charles Meryon and the French Etching Revival

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Art from the 1950s

Collection Display

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Johann Christian Reinhart

A German Landscape Painter in Rome

2012

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An ear alone is not a being

John Cage zum 100. Geburtstag

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Alice in the Wonderland of Art

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BALTIC RAW

Open Museum

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LOST PLACES

Sites of Photography

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minimal and beyond

Collection display

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Paul Wunderlich

The Early Lithographs

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Georg Jappe

Ornithopoetry “Birds are the landscape’s memory”

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Louise Bourgeois

Passage dangereux

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EXHAUSTED HEROES

Ferdinand Hodler – Aleksandr Dejneka – Neo Rauch

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Transit

Collection display

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Georg Ernst Harzen

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Red, Yellow, Blue

At the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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Max Liebermann

Pioneer of Modern Art

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The Collection of Groundkeeper Wilhelm Werner

2011

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Marc Brandenburg

Drawing

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Painted over. Smudged. Erased.

Painted over. Smudged. Erased.

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Bruegel, Rembrandt & Co

Dutch Drawings 1450-1850

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Noble Guests

Impressionist Masterpieces from the Kunsthalle Bremen

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Roni Horn

Photographic Works

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Antiquity Unleashed

Aby Warburg and the Birth of the Pathos Formula in Hamburg

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Out of focus

After Gerhard Richter

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Attila Csörgő

The Archimedean Point

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Runge’s Cosmos

The Morning of the Romantic Era

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Cut

Scherenschnitte 1970-2010

Selbstbildnis mit Modell

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Kirchner

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David Tremlett. Drawing Rooms

Wall Drawings for the Gallery of Contemporary Art

2010

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Spiegelei im Hamburger Kinderzimmer

At the Hamburger Kinderzimmer

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Sailing Under Full Canvas

Dutch Paintings of the Golden Age

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»A Temporary Heaven«

Art in Hamburg in the 1920s

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The Jesus Scandal

A Liebermann painting in the crossfire of critics

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Whiteout by Geert Goiris

Presentation of the 11th Baloise Art Prize

Mindmap_Aus_Getty_Talk_Text_Tones_1991

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The Song of the Line

Stephan von Huene. Drawings from five decades

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Pop Life

Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, …

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Views of Hamburg

The city in the painter's gaze

2009

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The Arena of Ridicule

The Arena of Ridicule

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Roman Signer

Projections. Films and Videos 1975–2008

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Marcel van Eeden

The Zurich Trial, Part 1: Witness for the Prosecution

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Dance of Colours

Nijinsky's Eye and Abstraction

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MAN SON 1969

The Horror of the Situation

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Jakob Philipp Hackert

European Landscape Painters in the Age of Goethe

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From Leonardo to Piranesi

Italian Drawings from 1450 to 1800c

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Eduard Bargheer in Hamburg

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Max Ernst. Une semaine de bonté

The original colllages

2008

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The Mirror of Secret Desires

Still Lifes from Five Centuries

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Mark Rothko

The Retrospective

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Thomas Demand

Camera

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Wild!

Depictions of Animals from Four Centuries

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Horst Janssen und die Niederländer

Leporello: Don Juan’s Lovers

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Therese Halle

Therese Halle

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A Vision of Italy

Netherlandish Landscape Drawings Between Reality and Fantasy

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Félix Vallotton

Idyll on the Edge

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World Receiver

Celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of the Gallery of Contemporary Art

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A Love

Max Klingers impact on modern art

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David Hockney

Myself and my Heroes

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Sigmar Polke. Cultural Template

Cultural Template. Prints from 1963 to 2000

2007

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Sea Pieces - from Max Beckmann to Gerhard Richter

Of beautiful women, container ships and monster waves

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Daniel Richter

A major survey

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Black Square

Hommage an Malewitsch

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Helene Schjerfbeck

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Mahjong

Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection

2006

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In the Light of the South

Marseilles visits Hamburg

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Parcours.

Images of the Orient From Meister Francke to Shirin Neshat

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Welcome Guests from Denmark

The Statens Museum for Kunst in the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Edvard Munch

»…from the modern life of the soul«

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Exploring hidden worlds

German drawings from Dürer to Chodowiecki

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Return to Space

In Cooperation with Hamburger Kunsthalle and Siemens Arts Program

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Die »Brücke« in Hamburg

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Francis Bacon

The Portraits

2005

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Segregated

Art in Hamburg 1933-1945

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Horst Janssen

Totentanz

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Sea-pieces

From Caspar David Friedrich to Emil Nolde

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present:

storytellers

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Standpunkt: André Lützen

Hole in the head

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Fritz Fenzl

Encounters with ‘Guernica’ Re-discovered photographs by Fritz Fenzl of the 1956 Picasso exhibition in Hamburg

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Pieter de Hooch

The messenger of love

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Albert Renger-Patzsch

Park Landscapes in Hamburg

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I, Lovis Corinth

The self-portraits

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Inga Svala Thorsdottir

Borg

2004

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In Max Liebermann’s Garden

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Johann Georg von Dillis

Drawings and Watercolours

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From Delacroix to Gauguin

French 19th-Century Prints from the Hamburger Kunsthalle’sDepartment of Prints, Drawings and Photography

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Mona Hatoum

A major survey including new work

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Pleasurable Life – Hidden Desires

Dutch Genre Scenes from Frans Hals to Jan Steen

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gegenwärtig:

Field Research

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Ice Hot

Recent Painting from the Scharpff Collection

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Lyonel Feininger

Human portraits. An unfamiliar world

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Art of the 1920s in Hamburg

2003

Graue Fläche

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ART IS WORK IS ART

Arthur Köpcke on his 75th birthday

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Stephan von Huene

Tune the World

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From Runge to Menzel

100 Master Drawingsfrom the Hamburger Kunsthalle

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Dreamwalker

Odilon Redon and Rodolphe Bresdin

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Vilhelm Hammershøi

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Gregor Schneider

Hannelore Reuen

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STANDPUNKT: Christian Hahn

"Hotbed"

1996

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Georg Hinz

Das Kunstkammerregal (the art cabinet shelf)

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Drawing is Seeing

French Drawings from Ingres to Cézanne