 A new building, in size with seven exhibition halls and a 22m-high glass-roofed atrium designed by the Hamburg-based architects Gerkan, Marg and Partners opened in 2018.The concrete, glass and steel structure is enveloped in a bronze mesh.Fritz Wichert (1909-1923)

Fritz Wichert, who completed his doctorate in 1907 in Freiburg, became director of the Kunsthalle in Mannheim as early as 1909, where he expanded the collection to include paintings from the 19th century with a focus on French Modernism.