Kupferstichkabinett Berlin

The Kupferstichkabinett, or Museum of Prints and Drawings, is a prints museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Berlin State Museums, and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz. It is the largest museum of graphic art in Germany, with more than 500,000 prints and around 110,000 individual works on paper (drawings, pastels, watercolours, oil sketches). History The Kupferstichkabinett was officially founded in 1831, with a collection of drawings and watercolours acquired by Frederick William I in 1652 at its core. It was first housed in the Altes Museum beside the collections of Old Master paintings and Classical sculpture from ancient Greece and Rome, as exemplars of "High Art". The collection grew throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, with the addition of Medieval, Renaissance and later works, including drawings by Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald , Sandro Botticelli 's illustrations of Dante 's Divine Comedy (purchased in 1882), and the estate. Collection Drawing by Matthias Grünewald in the Kupferstichkabinett. The emphasis is on European drawings and printed graphics from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as illuminated manuscripts , sketchbooks, topographical drawings and printing plates. The older artists include Dürer , Grünewald , Botticelli and Menzel, as well as Altdorfer , Bosch , Bruegel , Chodowiecki , Friedrich , Mantegna , Rembrandt , Schinkel , and Tiepolo . More recent artists include Kirchner , Munch and Picasso , Pop Artists ( Warhol , Hamilton , Johns , Stella ) conceptual artists , minimalists.