Art, literature & history
The Ruins of Saint Nicolai Church in Hamburg
1871
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- watercolor and pen and brown ink, heightened with white, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 56.5 x 40.9 cm (22 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1990.92.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Martin Gensler. The Ruins of Saint Nicolai Church in Hamburg. Martin Gensler; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Gift of Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Ruins of Saint Nicolai Church in Hamburg — Martin Gensler. 1871.
Medium: watercolor and pen and brown ink, heightened with white, on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 56.5 x 40.9 cm (22 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1990.92.1. Gift of Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.