Kupferstich-Kabinett: 300 Years Keeping in the Present

Die Porträt-Zeichnung eines Jungen mit kinnlangen Haaren.

300 Years Keeping in the Present

In 2020, the Kupferstich-Kabinett will be celebrating its 300th anniversary, making it the oldest museum in any German-speaking country to specialise in art on paper. Since 1720, it has collected, preserved and researched into not only copperplate engravings, woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and other prints, but also drawings, watercolours and photographs.

Exhibition Site Residenzschloss

DATES 12/06/2020—14/09/2020

The main exhibition presents more than 200 works from all three centuries, sorted into themed chapters and shown chronologically based on the time they were acquired. The question asked throughout is how the collection developed in each contemporary context, what art was acquired under what circumstances, and what strategies were followed when organising and adding to the holdings. In the exhibition’s “treasure chamber”, visitors will discover outstanding drawings by great artists from the 15th century until today, replaced by different works every three weeks.

The first chapter, "The Prince Electors' Pictorial Gallery" presents the classification system used by the Kupferstich-Kabinett's first director Johann Heinrich von Heucher, as reflected in the oldest inventory from 1738. This section contains works by Lucas van Leyden, Hans Burgkmair the Elder or Marcantonio Raimondi, among others. Another focus is on the collection of prints by contemporary "peintres-graveurs", created based on the artists' own designs. With works by artists such as Hercules Seghers, Hendrick Goltzius, Bernardo Bellotto, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the Dresden gallery rose to international renown in the 18th century.

**300 Jahre Sammeln von Papier: Das Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden**

**300 Jahre Bewegung: Das Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden**

**300 Jahre Nähe und Ferne: Das Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden**

The second chapter, "Becoming a Museum for Drawings, Prints and Photography", focuses on the acquisitions made as art history developed into an academic subject. Collecting, research and the promotion of artistic talent often went hand in hand. Drawings by artists such as Caspar David Friedrich, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld or Ludwig Richter testify to Dresden's importance as a home for art during the Romantic period. At the end of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, under Max Lehrs, the famous art historian and former director of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, the collection was enriched not just by important pieces by Old Masters and 19th-century works, but also by photography, poster art and Japanese polychrome woodblock prints.

Das Gemälde einer Frau in schwarzem Kleid auf einem Stuhl mit weiteren sitzenden Personen im Hintergrund. — **Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Plakat: Divan Japonais** Lithographie in fünf Farben, 1240 x 915 mm

Ein weißes und ein schwarzes Quadrat auf rotem Untergrund. — **Hermann Glöckner, Durchdringung von zwei Quadraten auf Rot** Faltung, Tempera

Die Porträt-Zeichnung eines Mannes mit Bart und Mütze. — **Hans Holbein d.J., Bildnis Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette, 1534/1535**

Die Bleistiftzeichnung einer Landschaft mit Brücken und Türmen und Mauern. — **Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Die Zugbrücke, aus der Folge "Invenzioni Capric di Carceri", 1750**

Skizze eines älteren Mannes — **Jan van Eyck, Bildnis eines älteren Mannes** Silberstift

Der Panoramablick auf einen Schlosshof mit Paradezügen aus Pferden und Kutschen. — **C. H. Fritzsche, Aufzug der Wagen und Reiter zum Damenringrennen am 6. Juni 1709 in Dresden, um 1710**

Rote Pinselstriche bedecken dichte, schwarze Linien. — **A.R. Penck, Pinselzüge in Rot über schwarzer Kreidezeichnung, 1976**

Another room is dedicated to the third chapter, "Ruptures and Continuities", and the period from 1920 to the present. Works by Otto Dix, Erich Heckel and Oskar Kokoschka, alongside photographs by Edmund Kesting and Charlotte Rudolph, represent the acquisitions continually made in the Weimar Republic. The Nazi confiscation campaign in 1937 caused heavy losses in the field of modernism. Another severe setback came after the end of the war and the liberation from the tyranny of Nazism, when 95 percent of the collection was looted and carried off to the Soviet Union. In 1958, most of these works were returned.

Eine Person betrachtet in Holz gerahmte Kunstwerke an einer grauen Wand. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

Eine Person betrachtet ein aufgeschlagenes Buch in einem Glasschaukasten. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

Personen betrachten Kunstwerke in einem Ausstellungsraum. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

Eine Besucherin betrachtet Kunstwerke in einem hellen Ausstellungsraum. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

Personen betrachten ein Kunstwerk in einem Ausstellungsraum. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

Ein Ausstellungsraum mit Gemälden an den Wänden und Schaukästen aus Glas. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

Eine Wand mit Gemälden und Glasschaukästen. — **Blick in die Ausstellung "300 Jahre Sammeln in der Gegenwart"**

From the 1960s on, under the long-serving director Werner Schmidt, the museum succeeded in acquiring large sets of works and numerous pieces focusing on Eastern Europe, in addition to East German non-conformist art and works from West Germany, Western Europe and the United States. The art purchased in the post-1945 period includes works by Karl-Heinz Adler, Hermann Glöckner, Hans Hartung, Ilja Kabakov and Pablo Picasso.

The outstanding artists from the period after 1989 include Wols, Miriam Cahn and Eberhard Havekost. Their art can be seen in the exhibition. Also new acquisitions from recent years are presented, including significant current donations by MUSEIS SAXONICIS USUI - Freunde der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden e.V. - such as works by Karl-Heinz Adler, Marlene Dumas and Gerhard Richter from the capitalist realism portfolio. The annual gifts by Thomas Florschuetz (2019) and Monika Grzymala (2020) will be exhibited for the first time in this context.

Das Porträt einer Person mit Skibrille auf dem Kopf und geröteten Wangen. — **Eberhard Havekost, Snow Lounge (1) (Detail), 2000**

Events

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publications

publication accompanying the special exhibition

300 Jahre Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden. Sammeln in der Gegenwart

Edited by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Stephanie Buck, Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick, Gudula Metze, Ausstellung Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, London 2020, 304 pages, Paul Holberton Verlag, museum edition 29,50€, ISBN: 978-1-911300-89-2

publication accompanying the special exhibition

Timm Rautert, Bildanalytische Photographie 1968-1974

Edited by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Stephanie Buck, Linda Conze, Rebecca Wilton, Steidl Verlag, München 2020, 204 Seiten, 149 Schwarzweiß- und 23 Farbfotografien, Leineneinband mit Schutzumschlag, 65 €, ISBN 978-3-95829-486-8

vier schwarz-weiß-Fotografien, zwei Selbstporträts mit Kamera, zwei Bilder von Bäumen

Partners and Sponsors

Further Exhibitions

Kupferstich-Kabinett

in Residenzschloss

Portrait eines Mannes mit Hut und Vollbart

02/10/2020 —01/11/2020

Andreas Rost. Reunification

in Residenzschloss

Die Schwarz-Weiß-Fotografie eines Mannes, der eine Flagge um die Schultern trägt.

14/11/2020 —31/05/2021

Crossing Borders

in Residenzschloss

Gelbe, mit linienförmigen Erhebungen bedeckte Fliesen heben sich als Abzweigung von einem grauen Fliesenboden ab.

02/10/2020 —01/11/2020

Uecker

in Residenzschloss

Kreisförmig angeordnete Auskerbungen auf weißem Untergrund.

All Exhibitions

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300 Years Keeping in the Present

[Translate to English:] Die Hauptausstellung

[Translate to English:] Das erste Kapite

[Translate to English:] Videos

[Translate to English:] Das zweite Kapitel

[Translate to English:] Impressionen

[Translate to English:] Das dritte Kapitel

[Translate to English:] Ausstellungsansichten

[Translate to English:] Seit den 1960er-Jahren

[Translate to English:] Die Jahre nach 1989/90

Events

publications

300 Jahre Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden. Sammeln in der Gegenwart

Timm Rautert, Bildanalytische Photographie 1968-1974

Partners and Sponsors

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Kupferstich-Kabinett

Andreas Rost. Reunification

Crossing Borders

Uecker

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