Kupferstichkabinett
The Kupferstichkabinett—Berlin’s Museum of Prints and Drawings—opened with a collecting ambition that goes back centuries. It stands within the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz as part of the Berlin State Museums, and today it holds more than 500,000 prints and around 110,000 individual works on paper, ranging from drawings and pastels to watercolours and oil sketches. Its story begins with the core collection: drawings and watercolours acquired by Frederick William I in 1652. The museum itself was officially founded in 1831, and it first lived beside the Altes Museum’s Old Master paintings and Classical sculpture—positioning graphic art as “High Art” rather than study material. Over the 19th and 20th centuries, the range widened to include major figures such as Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald, plus Sandro Botticelli’s illustrations for Dante’s *Divine Comedy*, purchased in 1882, and the estate of Adolph Menzel. …
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