Kupferstich-Kabinett: Kupferstich-Kabinett

Masterworks on paper: Prints – Drawing – Photography

More than half a million drawings, prints and photographs from the Middle Ages until today are being hold here, e.g. by Dürer, van Eyck, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Fragonard and Friedrich up to Toulouse-Lautrec, Kotzsch, Glöckner, Baselitz and Tillmans.

To the collection

Crossing Borders. Collecting for the future

To the online exhibition

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Eine Welt auf Papier: Das Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden

One collection presented at different places

Residenzschloss Dresden

Current special exhibitions

Residenzschloss Dresden

Study room

Personen sitzen an Tischen, darauf Graphiken aufgestellt

Dresden-Loschwitz

Josef-Hegenbarth-Archive

Kunstutensilien auf eine Art Servierwagen

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