20 June 2008 – 25 August 2008

Georg Baselitz. Printed works from 1963 to 1983 from the collection of the Duke Franz of Bavaria

Georg Baselitz is one of the most important contemporary German artists. He paints, draws and – since the late 1970s – creates sculptures. Early in his career, Baselitz also discovered graphic art, and his first etchings were produced at the start of the 1960s. >From then on he experimented with a wide range of different techniques, such as drypoint and aquatint, and later with woodcut and linocut, and he gradually built up an independent body of works on paper. By taking up subjects that he also used in paintings and drawings – such as the human figure, landscapes or animals – but employing a new medium, he explored the specific potential of techniques such as etching or woodcut.

Baselitz is not concerned with editions and reproducibility but rather with the conditions created by a form of artistic expression that leads him into completely new realms of aesthetic experience.

Address

Kupferstich-Kabinett
Residenzschloss, Taschenberg 2
1067 Dresden
phone +49 351 491 42 11
http://www.skd-dresden.de

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., closed on Monday.

Description of the Museum

The Cabinet of Prints and Drawings is one of the world’s most prominent art museums for drawings, printed graphics and photography. Its collection comprises over 500,000 works on paper by more than 11,000 artists of eight centuries. This “museum of masterworks” places world-famous drawings and graphics by artists ranging from Dürer, van Eyck, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Fragonard and Caspar David Friedrich to Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Baselitz on view.

Since April 25, 2004 the "new" Cabinet of Prints and Drawings presents its superb collection in the Dresden Royal Palace, in the very location in which it was established as one of the world’s oldest collections 450 years ago.

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