Kupferstichkabinett Dresden

The Print Room, Dresden is now an art museum for drawing, printmaking and photography a part of the Dresden State Art Collections. It is located at the Dresden Palace.

History

The Cabinet of Prints Dresden is - like many of the other famous collections in Dresden - the collections of the Saxon Elector back. It was in 1720 as an independent museum for graphics and drawing from the established in Dresden 1560 Kunstkammer of Wettin forth. According to his own statement, it is the oldest museum of graphic arts in Germany. Over the following centuries, the collection was expanded.

Also for the Cabinet of Prints Dresden means the destruction of Dresden in February 1945 a severe cut in the history of the collection. Despite outsourcing, the losses were very high. After the war, the movement of the most famous part of the collection followed in the Soviet Union. It was not until the late 1950s, the collection to Dresden returned and was made ​​available again in the Albertinum.

Since 1988, the Joseph Hegenbarth Archive is part of the Prints and Drawings.

February 20, 2004 - Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, the federal government returned two volumes of graphics from the Dresden Print Room.

Collection

The extensive collection includes over 500,000 copies, of which only a fraction in the exhibition will be shown. The collection includes works of renowned artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jan van Eyck, Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Goya and Michelangelo. Furthermore, the Cabinet has an extensive number of works by artists with a strong reference to Dresden, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter and Georg Baselitz. In 1898 was by Max Lehr, the former director of the Print Room, placed with the acquisition first work of Käthe Kollwitz the foundation for the comprehensive collection of her drawings and graphic oeuvre, which now includes about 200 of her works.

Besides the permanent exhibition, the Cabinet of Prints Dresden regularly organizes special exhibitions, which in addition to his own works and loans from other well-known museums.

Exhibitions

In 2004, the Prints and Drawings Dresden moved into the renovated rooms on the 2nd floor of the Dresden Royal Palace.

Here are each shown in three-month temporary exhibitions on specific topics or artists about 100 to 130 properties to the public:

• 2012: Gert & Uwe Tobias: Dresdner paraphrases