Cabinet des estampes et des dessins

The graphic Cabinet ( French: Cabinet des Estampes et dessins ) is the graphic collection of drawings, woodcuts, engravings and lithographs from the period around 1400 to 1870, the city of Strasbourg in Alsace.

The museum was founded in 1890 ( its predecessor had been destroyed in the German - Prussian War of 1870 ) simultaneously with the other new art museums in the city founded by Wilhelm von Bode and has already received its own premises in 1898 at the Palais Rohan. 1984 involved the collection its present quarters in the immediate vicinity of the Musée de l' Oeuvre Notre Dame.

A similar theme as in the graphic Cabinet, but with a more concentrated focus is in the same city from the Musée Tomi Ungerer / Centre international de l' illustration represented ( works of Tomi Ungerer, Saul Steinberg, Ronald Searle ... ). At its inception in 1992, this collection was briefly placed under the Graphics Cabinet. The other modern and contemporary graphic works since 1995 at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain issued.

The Strasbourg graphic Cabinet has approximately 200,000 works.