Kupferstich-Kabinett: Against the Grain. Prints from the Günther and Annemarie Gercken Foundation

Zeichnung eines umgedrehten Rindes auf grünem Untergrund

Against the Grain

Prints from the Günther and Annemarie Gercken Foundation

Günther and Annemarie Gercken have been passionate collectors of unconventional art for seventy years. They are particularly interested in prints and in existential questions of human experience. The greater part of their important collection of contemporary art has been transferred to a foundation based at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.

Exhibition Site Residenzschloss

DATES 03/03/2023—04/06/2023

The Kupferstich-Kabinett holds the works on paper and now presents a selection of masterpieces of printmaking. The exhibition unites contemporary works with a group of haunting portraits by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Edvard Munch from the Gercken Collection spanning a period of more than one hundred years from Modernism to the twenty-first century.

**Tomas Schmit, ze & bra 17, 1979** Zeichnung, 215 x 305 mm, Kupferstich-Kabinett

**Georg Baselitz, Malelade (Blatt 1), 1990** Holzschnitt, 512 x 728 mm Kupferstich-Kabinett

**Georg Baselitz, Malelade (Blatt 6), 1990** Kaltnadel, 512 x 728 mm, Kupferstich-Kabinett

**David Hockney, Peter, 1969** Strichätzung, 922 x 710 mm, Kupferstich-Kabinett

Printmaking in its many forms is celebrated in radical images: woodcuts by Werner Büttner and Hubert Kiecol, Anselm Kiefer, Gustav Kluge, and Carsten Nicolai; etchings by Horst Antes, Georg Baselitz, David Hockney, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, and A. R. Penck; lithographs by Robert Mangold and Hermann Nitsch. Selected works and drawings by Monika Grzymala, Jenny Holzer, and Tomas Schmit broaden the display of graphic works.