School formats in the exhibitions

We present here our offerings for schoolchildren in association with special exhibitions. Our school programme offers skills- and activity-oriented approaches to art for all grades and educational levels. Through discussion and learning based on exemplary artworks, pupils are encouraged to think about and interact with art. Teachers will discover links to school curricula and will be able to incorporate new ideas into their lessons.

All our offerings are dialogue-based and interactive. For formats 120 minutes or longer, a studio component is possible.

On request, we can also adapt formats to different educational levels.

Interactive image viewing or workshop with creative or performative experiments

IMPRESSIONISM: CURTAIN UP!  4th – 13th grade

Dialogue-based and interactive guided tour or workshop with creative practice

60 min | 90 min collection or 120 min collection + studio

Come over here! Look at me and be amazed! What do you recognise in my face? Take a close look! Can you assume my posture?

In “Curtain Up!” we look at casts of characters whose stage directors, the Impressionists, were masterful composers. But how did they go about creating these figures? We will investigate their techniques and philosophise and perform based on concepts such as the key moment and staging. Paintings and sculptures provide the impetus to get moving and recreate with our own bodies the motifs of the Impressionists.

IMPRESSIONISM. DREAM-LIKE CITYSCAPES  5th – 13th grade

Interactive discussion or workshop with creative techniques

60 min | 90 min collection or 120 min collection + studio

Let’s take a closer look: Are those fluffy white clouds or a murky vapour building up in the background of Alfred Sisley’s The Seine at Billancourt? How do landscape and cityscape actually differ from one another? We follow the Impressionists in their observations and reflect on processes of change in nature and the city. What impresses us as we move through the world? What do we do in our free time?

In this format we get to know the chief characteristics of Impressionism. Works of art provide food for thought for how we live and how we want to live.

ISA MONA LISA  1st – 4th grade

Interactive talk or workshop with creative techniques

How do you imagine a person? We often only see what we already know. But is that the whole truth? When you hear the word »woman«, what image comes to mind and what expression do the artists in the exhibition find to broaden our view?

Pupils are introduced to contemporary art by looking and asking questions. The content is approached, discussed and reflected upon in dialogue and using interactive methods.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

ISA MONA LISA  5th – 13th grade

Interactive talk or workshop with creative techniques

How do you imagine a person? We often only see what we already know. But is that the whole truth? When you hear the word »woman«, what image comes to mind and what expression do the artists in the exhibition find to broaden our view?

Pupils are introduced to contemporary art by looking and asking questions. The content is approached, discussed and reflected upon in dialogue and using interactive methods.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS. Surrealism and German Romanticism 1st – 4th grade

What exactly is surrealism? How important are dreams, coincidences and nature for art? And how can you (re)invent a style of art?

In the exhibition »RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS«, you can discover how artists loved fantasy and dreams almost 200 years ago. Many years later, other artists even turned them into their own new style of art.

In this format, you can discover works of art, hear great stories, ask questions and get to know the exciting worlds of the two eras.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

Primary school: 60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio

RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS. Surrealism and German Romanticism 5th – 13th grade

In the exhibition »RENDEZVOUS OF DREAMS«, the influence of German Romanticism on the Surrealists is made visible: the supernatural and irrational, dreams and chance, community and encounters with a changing nature were key sources of inspiration for German Romanticism, which international Surrealism later adopted in a different way. The students approach the motifs with observation and questioning and immerse themselves in the infinite worlds of the two eras.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio

On a discovery journey with ANDERS ZORN 1st – 4th grade

He was a superstar of his time: people all over the world wanted to be painted by him - even two US presidents! He also captured harbor views, landscapes and everyday scenes - some even in Hamburg.
In the exhibition, we discover watercolors, paintings and etchings from Zorn's home country of Sweden and from his travels, for example to Spain, Africa and America. How did people live back then? What fascinated the artist? Why is his art still so important for us today?

The Hamburger Kunsthalle invites primary school classes on an exciting journey into Zorn's world.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio

ANDERS ZORN. Swedish Superstar 5th – 13th grade

Anders Zorn was one of the most famous artists in the world around 1900. He began his artistic career as a watercolorist, later switching to oil painting, in which impressionist elements can be found, as well as references to salon painting. City views, the port of Hamburg, but also the traditional and nature-loving life of his Swedish homeland Dalarna can be discovered and explored together on this tour. The contrast between city and countryside, distance and home, raises exciting questions about the understanding of man and nature and encourages reflection on diverse living environments.

In this format, students engage dialogically and interactively with the artist's life and creative process. They take a look at Zorn's themes and works from a contemporary perspective and explore the question of what makes his art still exciting for us today.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio

Feelings in Color – Discover the World of MARIA LASSNIG AND EDVARD MUNCH 1st – 4th grade

The Hamburger Kunsthalle invites primary school children to a special exhibition: For the first time, works by Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch are being shown together – and you can discover them!

Their paintings are about big feelings: anger, joy, sadness or fear. With bold colors and wild brushstrokes, the two artists show what moved them. They also provide very personal insights into their lives.
Together, we will look at their exciting works of art, talk about feelings – and find out how art can help us express what is inside us.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio

MARIA LASSNIG AND EDVARD MUNCH. Flow of Paint = Flow of Life 5th – 13th grade

Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch did not know each other and yet they have a lot in common! They dealt with their emotional world and explored their inner selves, which they transferred expressively onto canvas. They still impress people today with their lively brushwork and unusual painting experiments. What is the connection between colors and emotions? And what might Maria Lassnig's term »body-consciousness paintings« have to do with it? What role does self-questioning play in the artistic process?

Students explore all these questions on a dialogical and interactive tour. They are introduced to the lives and artistic processes of Lassnig and Munch through comparative viewing and creative experiments.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio