Since its establishment almost two centuries ago, the Hamburg Galerie Commeter has been a major influence in the city´s cultural life. The gallery was founded in 1821 by the two businessmen and passionate art collectors Ernst Georg Harzen and Matthias Commeter, without whom "a profounder artistic education in Hamburg could not have been acquired", as Alfred Lichtwark, the first Director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle once remarked.

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