Wand mit verschiedenen Bildern
© Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Herbert Boswank
Please note that the study room of the Kupferstich-Kabinett remains closed from September 22-26, 2025.

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More than half a million drawings, prints and photographs from the Middle Ages until today are being hold at the Kupferstich-Kabinett (Museum of Prints, Drawings and Photographs), e.g. by Dürer, van Eyck, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Fragonard and Friedrich up to Toulouse-Lautrec, Kotzsch, Glöckner, Baselitz and Tillmans.

To the collection

Upcoming events

One collection presented at different places

Residenzschloss Dresden

Current special exhibitions

Besucher betrachten Fotos an der Wand
© SKD, Foto: Oliver Killig
Residenzschloss Dresden

Study room

Personen sitzen an Tischen, darauf Graphiken aufgestellt
© SKD, Foto: Andreas Diesend
Dresden-Loschwitz

Josef-Hegenbarth-Archive

Kunstutensilien auf eine Art Servierwagen
© SKD, Foto: Herbert Boswank

[Translate to English:] Film Kupferstich-Kabinett

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Eine Welt auf Papier: Das Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden

A long tradition

As early as the sixteenth century, Saxon rulers began to collect works on paper. They were interested in creating a centre for pictorial documentation which would bring together knowledge and conceptions of the world.
History of the Collection

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