Twentieth-Century Drawings and Prints

Thanks to targeted efforts made in the area of Classical Modern Art since the post-war period, the Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs now possesses extensive series of works of German Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism as well as Bauhaus art. Aside from members of the »Brücke« group - Heckel, Kirchner, Schmidt-Rottluff, etc. - the strongest focuses are on Baumeister, Dix, Klee, Kollwitz, Schlemmer, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, whose pastel of 1905 is the earliest work in a representative collection of his drawings, pastels, collages and prints in the techniques of etching, lithography and linocut. European Informel of the 1950s, American Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism as well as Concept Art and Minimal Art account for a substantial proportion of the inventory, followed by the autonomous and individualist phenomena in drawings and prints of the 1980s and ’90s. The collection also comprises a Marcel Duchamp Cabinet, which is open to visitors by previous arrangement.