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The Hamburger Bahnhof was built in 1874 as one of Berlin 's rail heads, but already in 1906 it was found too small for a station and was converted into a museum of traffic and building. Located in "no man's land" between East and West Berlin , the Hamburger Bahnhof remained unused after the Second World War. Successive restoration began only after the GDR handed the building over to the City of Berlin in 1984.

In 1987, the Hamburger Bahnhof was assigned to the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage). The 1989 competition for the conversion of the building was won by the architect Josef Paul Kleihues, a museum specialist who designed an ideal concept for the multi-functional usage of the new museum.

The large entrance hall serves as a central space for orientation and leads to all other parts of the building. From there, one can reach the two-storey western wing of the cour d'honneur, the ground floor of which serves as a permanent exhibition space dedicated to the work of Joseph Beuys. The eastern wing contains a restaurant and events forum. The great hall and the modern galleries are used for special exhibitions.

Since September 2004, the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection is on permanent loan to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin ) and shown in the neighbouring Rieck halls. The collector Friedrich Christian Flick handed over his first-class masterpieces to the National Museums in Berlin on loan for the duration of seven years.

represented artists

Dieter Appelt      Stephan Balkenhol      Matthew Barney      Georg Baselitz      Jean-Michel Basquiat      Lothar Baumgarten      Bodo Baumgarten      Franz Bernhard      Joseph Beuys      Bernhard Blume      Cosima von Bonin      Marcel Broodthaers      James Brown      Günter Brus      John Cage      Sandro Chia      Abraham David Christian      Enzo Cucchi      Hanne Darboven      Jirí Georg Dokoupil      Marcel Duchamp      Bogomir Ecker      Maria Eichhorn      Ulrich Erben      Omer Fast      Rainer Fetting      Fischli & Weiss      Dan Flavin      Günther Förg      Adib Fricke      Jochen Gerz      Dieter Hacker      Peter Halley      Duane Hanson      Keith Haring      Erwin Heerich      Gary Hill      Karl Horst Hödicke      Candida Höfer      Rebecca Horn      Rolf Julius      Wolf Kahlen      Anish Kapoor      Mike Kelley      Hubert Kiecol      Anselm Kiefer      Martin Kippenberger      Imi Knoebel      Bernd Koberling      Jeff Koons      Joseph Kosuth      Jannis Kounellis      Christina Kubisch      Raimund Kummer      Marie-Jo Lafontaine

David Lamelas      Nikolaus Lang      Bernhard Leitner      Via Lewandowsky      Roy Lichtenstein      Richard Long      Nino Longobardi      Jakob Mattner      Gerhard Merz      Mario Merz      Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset      Robert Morris      Reinhard Mucha      Piotr Nathan      Bruce Nauman      Olaf Nicolai      Marcel Odenbach      Nam June Paik      Mimmo Paladino      Anne & Patrick Poirier      Sigmar Polke      Fiona Rae      Robert Rauschenberg      Raffael Rheinsberg      Jason Rhoades      Gerhard Richter      Klaus Rinke      Pipilotti Rist      Ulrike Rosenbach      Ulrich Rückriem      Thomas Ruff      David Salle      Michael Schmidt      Julian Schnabel      Rudolf Schwarzkogler      Cindy Sherman      Katharina Sieverding      Serge Spitzer      Thomas Struth      Luc Tuymans      Cy Twombly      Günther Uecker      Bill Viola      Klaus vom Bruch      Stephan von Huene      Wolf Vostell      Jeff Wall      Franz Erhard Walther      Andy Warhol      Franz West      Rachel Whiteread      Emmett Williams      Robert Wilson