Full Description
In 2020, the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett—a collection of prints, drawings, and photographs—is celebrating its three hundredth anniversary with a rare exhibition, showcasing the collection's fragile and light-sensitive works on paper. The anniversary offers an occasion to present a number of little-seen masterpieces, including exceptional works by Jan van Eyck, Dürer, Verrocchio, Grünewald, Cranach, Holbein, Rembrandt, Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter, Toulouse-Lautrec, Mondrian, Hermann Glöckner, Gerhard Altenbourg, A. R. Penck, Georg Baselitz, and Evelyn Richter. Keeping in the Present invites us to explore eighty-four masterpieces from the oldest publicly accessible specialist collection for art on paper in the German-speaking countries. Founded in 1720, the Kupferstich-Kabinett was intended as a universal collection, open to works from all periods and countries, and the current collection holds true to that past, featuring old masters and young, unknown artists alike. Works that were contemporary and still unknown at the time of their purchase are now among the most treasured items, held in equal esteem with works that entered the collection as acknowledged masterpieces. Keeping in the Present illustrates the innovative and democratic nature of the Kupferstich-Kabinett as a place of creativity, knowledge, critical thinking, and aesthetic pleasure.
Contents
Keeping in the Present:
300 Years at the Dresden
Kupferstich-Kabinett
EDITED BY
THE STAATLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DRESDEN
STEPHANIE BUCK
PETRA KUHLMANN-HODICK
GUDULA METZE
WITH BJÖRN EGGING AND
CLAUDIA SCHNITZER
Keeping in the Present:
300 Years at the Dresden
Kupferstich-Kabinett
STAATLICHE KUNSTSAMMLUNGEN DRESDEN
KUPFERSTICH-KABINETT
MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING
Table of Contents
Foreword
Marion Ackermann and Stephanie Buck
Foreword
Colin B. Bailey
Acknowledgements
Aspects of the Present in the Collection of the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett
Stephanie Buck
300 Years at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett: a Timeline
1560 to 1720 - Prologue: the Kunstkammer
1720 to 1820 - The Princely Collection of Works on Paper
1820 to 1920 - Becoming a Museum for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs
1920 to 2020 - Disruptions and Continuities
CATALOGUE
Appendix
Photography Credits
Collection Stamps
Bibliography
Copyright Notice
