Collection
The museum houses an important collection of painting from the 19th century with works from Max Liebermann, Lovis Corinth, Philipp Otto Runge, Caspar David Friedrich, Adolf Menzel. The Gallerie der Gegenwart is devoted to modern arts from the early 20th century, e.g. Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Max Beckmann, and art after 1945.
One painting by the Kunsthalle was involved in the Frankfurt art theft of 1994. While on loan to the Kunsthalle Schirn in Frankfurt, the painting Nebelschwaden by Caspar David Friedrich was stolen. After negotiations with the thieves, a lawyer bought back the painting; when the Kunsthalle refused to pay him the agreed "consideration", he sued and won.
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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
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Caspar David Friedrich: The sea of ice
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Carl Blechen: Palm House on the Pfaueninsel near Potsdam
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Paul Cézanne: The Seine near Bercy
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Albrecht Dürer: Lion
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Max Liebermann: Birch alley in Wannsee garden
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Paul Gauguin: Bathing boys in Britanny
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Statue by Hermann Hahn next to the main entrance
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