The Hamburger Kunsthalle is a Hamburg museum of ancient, modern and contemporary art, founded in 1868. Among the most famous works, the collection of paintings by Caspar David Friedrich, including Wanderer over the Sea of Fog and The Sea of Ice.
The name 'Kunsthalle' indicates the museum's history as an 'art hall' when founded in 1850. Today, the Kunsthalle houses one of the few art collections in Germany that covers seven centuries of European art, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The Kunsthalle's permanent collections focus on North German painting of the 14th century, and 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.