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Tuesday, 6th October 1936
 
 
1st Visit to Hamburger Kunsthalle.
 
 

Tired and sick, Beckett drags himself through the rooms, making a note of c.
fifteen artists, commenting briefly on some of them.

He will return 10 times (c. 120 painters are listed in his diary, some of them with
vital statistics). The Kunsthalle becomes a main point for Beckett in Hamburg.

Further walks.


 

Then went to Kunsthalle. Frightful day again & I fürchterlich erkältet. Found very little, dull local painters & dull modern German painters. Two poor Feiningers. Some good French stuff, Courbet…
Fine building & superb presentation…

…Then out for walk.

 
   
Gängeviertel
(Alley Quarter)
  Gängeviertel
 
Gängeviertel
(Alley Quarter) Herrlichkeit
  Herrlichkeit
 
Katharinenstraße   Katharinenstraße
Glockengiesserwall   Katharinenstraße
Hamburger Kunsthalle   Kunsthalle
     
Kunsthalle innen   Kunsthalle innen 2
Kirchner Meister Bertram
Kunsthalle