Xmas Cruise 2013 - Hamburg Page

We had arrived during the night in Hamburg. Because the tube at the Cruise Terminal is too new even for last year’s map, I had to ask Carmen on Reception, where we were. St. Pauli. It was first stop to Jungfernstieg and we walked round the smaller lake to the Gustav Mahler Park but there was no statue to him, only one of Schiller.

The Alster Pavilion

The cubic New Art Gallery

Gustav Mahler Park

Then, over the bridge to the Kunsthalle, which is two buildings, a new cube and a Victorian one, connected by a tunnel. There were two travelling shows: one of Eva Hesse, who was not very good but had tried lots of new materials and Gego, who had gone to Venezuela & did things with wire, what she called drawings without paper. We spent much time looking at this. Then, we had a coffee and cake break (€10) and went round a show made up of Danish work collected by a rich Dane called Hirschsprung, who donated it to an unwilling state, getting a special building under way just before his death. Avis was not interested in this stuff, as it was nearly all 19thC but some was late and Skagen School and I photoed some for one of my shows, Nielsen, I think. We went through to the old gallery but their idea of modern art was Lovis Corinths later stuff. Nothing wrong with that.

The domed Old Art Gallery

Across the Binnen Alstersee from the gallery.

The rather grand Main Station

We had another drink (€6.40) and a look at the Town Hall and Xmas Market on Jungfernstieg.

The Old Art Gallery	Colonnade opposite the Town Hall	The Town Hall
Xmas Market	Sweet stall	Organ grinder