This category of the collection comprises a few examples of Late Gothic art as well as several drawings by such masters of the Renaissance as Hans Baldung, Lukas Cranach and Albrecht Dürer. The inventory of Mannerist works of the period around 1600 is more extensive. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are represented primarily by artists active in the southern regions of Germany, for example Johann Heinrich Schönfeld, Johann Georg Bergmüller and Januarius Zick. The collection also features little-known artists of the Baroque in Germany around 1700, e.g. Samuel Bottschild and Michael Willmann. Extensive holdings testify to the activities of the artists at the splendid court of the dukes of Württemberg in the late eighteenth century, among them Nicolas Guibal and his pupils. The preliminary drawings for the products of the Ludwigsburg Porcelain Manufactory constitute an entire complex of their own.

The collection of German prints predating 1800 was systematically built up in the era of the Königliches Kupferstichkabinett (Royal Cabinet of Engravings) in the nineteenth century, and comprises all themes, techniques and formats. The spectrum ranges from examples of picture printing in its very beginnings and early masterpieces of engraving, e.g. by Martin Schongauer, to the masters of the Renaissance, most significantly Albrecht Dürer. The woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair and others to illustrate the »Weisskunig« form a special highlight. Seventeenth and eighteenth-century works by engravers families such as Kilian and Sandrart are as well represented as those by the so-called ›peintre-graveurs‹. The holdings are further enhanced by small specialized collections concentrating on ornamental graphics, portraits, history in illustrated flyers and the history and topography of Württemberg.