Wand mit verschiedenen Bildern
© Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Herbert Boswank

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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
Exhibition of the Kupferstich-Kabinett at Residenzschloss
Date of the special exhibitions is 24.08.—17.11.2024

Caspar David Friedrich — The Draughtsman

Caspar David Friedrich. Where it all started

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Caspar David Friedrich, Blick aus dem Kapitelsaal der Klosterruine Heilig Kreuz bei Meißen, um 1824
© Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Herbert Boswank

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One collection presented at different places

Residenzschloss Dresden

Current special exhibitions

Besucher betrachten Fotos an der Wand
Residenzschloss Dresden

Study room

Personen sitzen an Tischen, darauf Graphiken aufgestellt
Dresden-Loschwitz

Josef-Hegenbarth-Archive

Kunstutensilien auf eine Art Servierwagen

Online Archive Joseph Beuys

In 2020, the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett received of one of the largest and most important privately own groups of drawings by Joseph Beuys with the long term loan of 175 Beuys paper works from the Aeneas Bastian collection. 

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© VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2021, Foto: Jörg von Bruchhausen
Joseph Beuys, Springender Wolf, fallende Bombe, 1959 Zwei Blätter, Ölfarbe und Wasserfarbe, DLN Bastian 59.08

Wols Archive

The Kupferstich-Kabinett's collection comprises more than 1,000 photographs by Wols. Furthermore, the Wols Archive, comprising the written bequest of the artist's sister, is housed within the Kupferstich-Kabinett and is accessible for research purposes.

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Portrait eines Mannes
© Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Foto: Estel/Klut

[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

Multimedia Guide

From our Online Collection

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