Kupferstichkabinett Dresden

Hieronymus in the case, copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer , 1514

The Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett is now an art museum for drawing , printmaking and photography and part of the Dresden State Art Collections . It is located in the Dresden Residenzschloss .

history

The Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden goes back - like many of the other famous collections in Dresden - to the collections of the Saxon electors . It emerged in 1720 as an independent museum for graphics and drawing from the Wettiner art chamber founded in Dresden around 1560 . According to its own information, it is the oldest museum for graphic arts in the German-speaking area. The collection was consistently expanded over the following centuries.

For the Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, too, the destruction of the city in February 1945 marked a serious turning point in the history of the collection. Despite outsourcing, the losses were very high. After the war, the most famous part of the collection was shipped to the Soviet Union . The collection did not return to Dresden until the end of the 1950s and was made accessible again in the Albertinum .

The Josef Hegenbarth Archive has been part of the Kupferstichkabinett since 1988 .

On February 20, 2004, the Ukrainian President Leonid Kutschma returned two volumes with 142 copperplate engravings from the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett to the federal government.

collection

The very extensive collection includes over 500,000 copies, of which only a fraction can be shown in the exhibition. The collection includes works by such renowned artists as Albrecht Dürer , Lucas Cranach the Elder , Hans Holbein the Younger , Jan van Eyck , Rubens , Rembrandt van Rijn , Goya and Michelangelo . The cabinet also has a large number of works by artists with a strong connection to Dresden, such as Caspar David Friedrich , Ludwig Richter and Georg Baselitz . In 1898 was of Max Lehrs the Print Room, with the acquisition of the first works of, the then director Kathe Kollwitz put her drawing and graphic oeuvre of the foundation for the comprehensive collection, which now includes about 200 of her works.

The Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden regularly organizes special exhibitions, which usually show its own holdings. In the study room, visitors can have many originals presented to them individually during opening hours. As a rule, you are asked to register in advance.

Exhibitions

In 2004 the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett moved into the renovated rooms on the second floor of the Dresden Residenzschloss.

Here, up to 200 objects are shown to the public in three-month changing exhibitions on specific topics or artists.

selection

October 4, 2012 to November 10, 2012: Gert & Uwe Tobias : Dresden paraphrases
October 19, 2017 to January 14, 2018: Käthe Kollwitz in Dresden (with catalog) and Marlene Dumas in Dresden
October 26, 2018 to January 20, 2019: In the realm of possibilities. Italian drawings of the 16th century
February 15, 2019 to May 12, 2019: tendency to abstraction. Kandinsky and Modernism around 1910
June 14, 2019 to September 15, 2019: Rembrandts Line (with catalog)