Masterpieces of the Department of Prints and Drawings

Due to the high artistic quality of its holdings – which encompass thousands of drawings and prints dating from the late Middle Ages to the present – the Städel Museum’s Department of Prints and Drawings is among the most prominent graphic art collections in Germany. The selected works shown in the catalogue spanned a period of nearly six hundred years: the oldest dated from the early fifteenth century; the most recent were executed in the late twentieth. Nearly all of art history’s most renowned draughtsmen were represented, for example Dürer, Raphael, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, Watteau, Fragonard, Tiepolo, Cornelius, Delacroix, Daumier, Cézanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Matisse, Kirchner, Beckmann, Klee and Pollock.