State Graphic Collection Munich
The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (SGSM) ( Kunstareal München is one of the most important graphic collections in the world and, along with the Kupferstichkabinetten in Berlin and Dresden, is the most important institution of its kind in Germany . It houses a collection of over 400,000 sheets from all epochs of drawing and printing from the 15th century to modern times .
) in thehistory
The origins of the collection go back to the copper engraving and drawing cabinet founded in 1758 by Elector Carl Theodor von der Pfalz in Mannheim Palace . In 1794 it was brought to safety from the advancing French army and transferred to Munich. During the secularization of 1803 the inventory could be increased considerably. From 1808, the later inspector of the cabinet, Franz Brulliot, began cataloging it. In 1839, parts of the collection were opened to the public for the first time as a copper engraving cabinet in the Alte Pinakothek . In 1874 the cabinet was given the status of an independent museum and was renamed the Royal Graphic Collection in 1905 . In 1917 the company moved to the Neue Pinakothek , where the collection was housed until 1944. After the destruction of this building in the Second World War and the losses suffered as a result, it was temporarily housed in 1949 as the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München in the Munich House of Cultural Institutes at Meiserstraße 10 (later Katharina-von-Bora-Straße 10), where it is still located today. The planned move to a new building was postponed for an indefinite period in 2005. In 2002 the graphic collection was given its own exhibition space in the newly built Pinakothek der Moderne . In 2008 the facility celebrated its 250th birthday with an extensive special exhibition. Since 2016, small studio presentations from the inventory have been shown in the showcase corridor of the Pinakothek der Moderne under the format name “IM BLICK”.
- Directors
- 1871–1885: Ferdinand Rothbart
- 1885–1904: Wilhelm Schmidt
- 1904–1917: Heinrich Pallmann
- 1918–1937: Otto Weigmann
- 1940–1948: Alfred Seyler
- 1948–1965: Peter Halm
- 1965–1970: Bernhard Degenhart
- 1971–1977: Herbert Pée
- 1977–1988: Dieter Kuhrmann
- 1989-2000: Tilman Falk
- 2000–2015: Michael Semff
- since 2016: Michael Hering
Duration
The graphic collection has around 350,000 prints and over 50,000 drawings, including works by the following artists:
Asam brothers ; Georg Baselitz ; Max Beckmann ; Joseph Mader ; Joseph Beuys ; Salvador Dalí ; Otto Dix ; Albrecht Dürer ; Max Ernst ; Anselm Feuerbach ; Caspar David Friedrich ; Vincent van Gogh ; El Greco ; Matthias Grünewald ; Olaf Gulbransson ; Ignaz Günther ; Jörg Immendorff ; Wassily Kandinsky ; Paul Klee ; Gustav Klimt ; Käthe Kollwitz ; Roy Lichtenstein ; Max Liebermann ; René Magritte ; Edouard Manet ; Andrea Mantegna ; Franz Marc ; Henri Matisse ; Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt ; Michelangelo ; Edvard Munch ; Emil Nolde ; Albert Oehlen ; Claes Oldenburg ; Pablo Picasso ; Rembrandt ; Peter Paul Rubens ; Carl Spitzweg ; Leonardo da Vinci ; Andy Warhol
Departments
The graphic collection is divided into five main sections:
- Conservator for German Art (15th - 18th Century)
- Conservator of Dutch Art (15th - 18th centuries)
- Conservator of Italian and French Art (15th-18th centuries)
- Conservator of 19th Century Art
- Conservator for art of the 20th / 21st centuries century
In order to ensure the possibility of public presentations and the maintenance of the works of art, the facility has its own workshops:
- Restoration workshop
- Passepartout cutting workshop
- Workshop for framing and exhibition setup
- Bookbinding
- Photo lab
The holdings of the collection, which are otherwise only shown in temporary exhibitions due to the sensitivity of the works of art to light, can be viewed in a study room. Individual works are reproduced for those interested. There is also the option of having privately owned graphics examined in terms of their artistic significance.
Exhibitions
The exhibitions of the graphic collection take place (unless otherwise stated) in the Pinakothek der Moderne .
- 2006
- Rembrandt - for the 400th birthday: etchings
- Al Taylor - drawings
- Hans Bellmer - Engineer of Eros
- Homage to Mantegna - prints
- Israhel van Meckenem - copper engravings: The Munich inventory
- Karl Bohrmann - drawings
- 2007
- Erwin Pfrang - Ulysses by James Joyce
- Max Peiffer Watenphul - Drawings
- James Bishop - works on paper
- Fritz Wotruba - drawings and stones
- Parmigianino and his circle - Print from the Baselitz Collection (Alte Pinakothek)
- Philip Guston - works on paper
- 2008
- Draw artists - donate collectors: 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich
- A hall full of gods - drawings by Schnorr von Carolsfeld for the Munich residence
- Georg Baselitz - Prints from 1964 to 1983 from the collection of Duke Franz von Bayern
- 100 master drawings from New York - The Morgan Library & Museum visits Munich
- 2009
- The Presence of the Line - A selection of recent acquisitions from the 20th and 21st centuries
- Hermann Obrist - sculpture, space, abstraction around 1900
- Karl Bohrmann - repetitions 1993/94. A donation from private ownership
- Daniel Hopfer - An Augsburg Master of the Renaissance
- 2010
- Peter Loewy : Drawings - An exhibition with photo portraits
- Norbert Tadeusz - works on paper
- Al Taylor - The graphic work
- Painting on paper - Josef Albers in America
- 2011
- Emil Nolde - watercolors
- Feininger from Havard - drawings, watercolors and photographs
- The room of the line - American drawings and sculptures from 1960 onwards from a private collection
- Ellsworth Kelly - Plant Drawings
- 2012
- Draftsman in Rome - 1550–1700
- The draftsman Karl Arnold
- Max Weiler - the draftsman
- "Monsieur Daumier , your series is delightful!" - The Kames Foundation
- 2013
- Show site (provisional)
- Andy Warhol - drawings from the 1950s
- Beggars, thieves, the underworld - Leonaert Bramer illustrates Spanish novels
- 2014
- Silvia Bächli - blackberries. Works on paper
- Donated by Hans Bellmer and Henri Michaux
- Per Kirkeby - bronze, drypoint, wood
- Max Peiffer Watenphul - The sketchbooks. Presentation on the occasion of the donation
- Jacques Lipchitz - Drawings 1910–1972. A gift from the estate
- Terry Winters - The graphic work 1999-2014
- 2015
- Philip Guston - Three Glances: The Complete Prints / Final Acrylic Works on Paper / Drawings for Poets
- Édouard Vuillard - Insights into the litho workshop
- Farewell to Dr. Michael Semff
- Rudolf von Alt . "... ingenious, lively, natural and true." The Munich holdings and their provenance
- 50 years of PIN. Friends of the Pinakothek der Moderne - A selection from the State Graphic Collection in Munich
- 2016
- Karel Appel - Works on Paper
- Johann Andreas Wolff - the art of drawing in Munich around 1700
- Gert & Uwe Tobias - Grisaille
- IN VIEW: The figure alphabet of the master ES
- The founder who was the instigator because he knew that art is for everyone - the gift from the Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne
- 2017
- IN VIEW: At the Valois royal court. French drawings of the late Renaissance
- Missing: The tower of the blue horses by Franz Marc - contemporary artist in search of a lost masterpiece
- IN VIEW: Pit stop I - Students from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts visit the State Graphic Collection in Munich
- Lucas van Leyden - master of printmaking
- IN VIEW: Souvenirs from the south. Johann Georg von Dillis in France and Italy
- Thea Djordjadze - SGSM inventory
- 2018
- IN VIEW: Georg Baselitz on his 80th birthday
- Sketchbook history [n] - Sketchbooks of the State Graphic Collection Munich
- IN VIEW: Giorgio Vasari - On the anniversary of the second edition of "Viten", 1568
- Ólafur Elíasson - WATER colors
- IN VIEW: A homage - master sheets from the collection of Duke Franz von Bayern
- Grande Decorazione - Italian monumental painting in printmaking
- 2019
- IN VIEW: Count Franz von Pocci . Imagination and ridicule
- Touch. Prints by Kiki Smith
- IN VIEW: Waidmannsdank! Recently given - drawings, etchings and printing plates by Johann Elias Ridinger (1698-1767)
- One-sheet woodcuts from the 15th century
- IN VIEW: The best van Rembrandt - drawings and etchings by the Munich cabinet & Peter Piller - patience
- Hermann Glöckner - a master of the modern age
- 2020
- IN VIEW: Heaven on earth - drawings for Italian wall and ceiling paintings
- Max Klinger - Tent and Other Cycles
- KH Hödicke - A retrospective
literature
- Johann Baptist Obernetter (Ed.): Facsimiles after rare engravings, etchings and hand drawings by older masters from the Königl. Kupferstich-Cabinet zu Munich after the order of the royal. Conservators F. Rothbart . Commissions-Verlag, 1876.
- Wilhelm Schmidt (Ed.): Hand drawings by old masters in the royal copper engraving cabinet in Munich . Publishing Institute for Art and Science, Munich (1884–1893).
- Heinrich Pallmann: The royal. Graphic collection in Munich 1758–1908 . Bruckmann, Munich 1908 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Weigmann: A chapter royal Bavarian art maintenance . Sachs, Munich 1913.
- Peter Halm, Bernhard Degenhart, Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Hundred master drawings from the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Prestel Verlag, Munich 1958.
- Dieter Kuhrmann (Ed.): Drawings from the collection of Elector Carl Theodor. Exhibition on the 225th anniversary of the State Collection of Graphic Art in Munich . State Graphic Collection Munich, Munich 1983.
- Michael Semff (Hrsg.): A picture handbook - A Visual Handbook: Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich . Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-927803-36-7 .
- Michael Semff, Kurt Zeitler (Ed.): Artists draw - collectors donate. 250 years of the State Graphic Collection in Munich . Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2179-0 .
- Susanne Wagini: The State Graphic Collection in Munich is under reconstruction . In: Iris Lauterbach (Hrsg.): Art history in Munich 1947. Institutions and people in reconstruction . Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-9806071-4-8 , pp. 123-132.
- From Dürer to de Kooning. 100 master drawings. The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munich visits New York. Exhibition catalog Morgan Library and Museum, New York . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-5521-1 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E