The Hamburger Kunsthalle is home to one of the most important collections of modern art in Germany, with more than 3,000 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. It is displaying 125 of these, including some of its best-known works as well as recent acquisitions, to tell a story of how rapidly European art evolved from the turn of the 20th century to the post-war period (4 September–30 May 2027). It’s a good way to get to grips with the sheer variety of modernism: as well as works associated with the Brücke and Blaue Reiter schools there are paintings from ‘school of Paris’ artists such as Braque, Picasso and Sonia Delaunay; beguiling works of Surrealism, New Objectivity and Bauhaus; and, from after the war, some striking examples of Art Informel. Other highlights include a scene of Eve in paradise by Henri Rousseau (c. 1906–07) and an elegantly abstracted portrait of a couple by Heinrich Hoerle (1933).
Find out more from the Hamburger Kunsthalle’s website.
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