Collection of Staatliche Graphische Sammlung


The Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, located in Munich, Germany, is one of the most important graphic arts collections in the world.  Housed in an old Nazi-era administration building, the collection contains over 400,000 pieces of printed and handmade drawings which span the last six centuries.  The focus of the collection is on German and Dutch works from the nineteenth century, Italian Renaissance drawings and international graphic works from the twentieth century through today.  Noted artists include Salvador Dalí, Otto Dix, Albrecht Dürer, Max Ernst, Vincent van Gogh, Matthias Grünewald, Olaf Gulbransson, Ignaz Günther, Jörg Immendorff, Gustav Klimt, Käthe Kollwitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Édouard Manet, Henri Matisse, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Leonardo da Vinci, and Andy Warhol among others.


1888 Canal with Bridge and Women Washing Drawing Canal-with-Bridge-and-Women-Washing
1888 Rhone with Boats and a Bridge, The Drawing Rhone-with-Boats-and-a-Bridge,-The
1889 Enclosed Field behind Saint-Paul Hospital Drawing Enclosed-Field-behind-Saint-Paul-Hospital





Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
Interior of a Restaurant in Arles Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees Outskirts of Paris near Montmartre View of The Hague with the New Church
"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."