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
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 173 Beuys paper works from the Aeneas Bastian collection.
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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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