Germany - Extension and refurbishment of the Kupferstichkabinett, library and archives of the Hamburger Kunsthalle - project planning

Description

The Hamburger Kunsthalle is one of the largest art museums in Germany.
It is home to art collections from 8 centuries and spans the spectrum from the Middle Ages to modern and contemporary art.
The building complex of the Hamburger Kunsthalle consists of the old building (1863-1868), the new building (1912-1919) and the contemporary gallery (1993-1996). The individual parts of the building are connected to each other. Today's main entrance is located in the old building, opposite the Galerie der Gegenwart.
In total, the Hamburger Kunsthalle has a gross floor area of 37,954 square meters; the net floor area is 33,040 square meters. The old and new buildings each extend over 4 floors
The Galerie der Gegenwart has 5 storeys including the ground floor and basement plus the underground car park.
The total exhibition and event space of the Hamburger Kunsthalle covers more than 13,000 square meters and presents both permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as special exhibitions.
The Hamburger Kunsthalle welcomes around 400,000 visitors a year.

The new building was erected in 1912-1919 as an extension to the old building. The design was based on preliminary plans by Albert Erbe and Alfred Lichtwark, the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle at the time. It was realized under Fritz Schumacher. The new building stands out demonstratively from the old building with its unadorned, neoclassical façade made of shell limestone and the dome-crowned rotunda.
In the center of the new building on the first floor is the study room of the Kupferstichkabinett, which opened in 1922 and is today - with its more than 140,000 drawings, prints and photographs - one of the most important collections of prints and drawings in Europe.

Part of this tender is the "Extension and refurbishment of the Kupferstichkabinett, library and archives of the Hamburger Kunsthalle". The inner courtyard of the new building is to be built over. The measure is based on the exhausted storage capacities of the print collection as well as the library and archive holdings of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. The extension of the space, in the form of the superstructure of the Kupferstichkabinett study room over three floors, will create up to 880 square meters of new usable space.
The measure is based on a feasibility study, the concept of which is to be implemented in the course of further planning, with a reduced scope of measures.

Opportunity closing date

15 April 2024

Value of contract

to be confirmed