The graphic medium has a reputation for hushed tones. But that certainly does not apply to all the paper-based works in our collection. The radical absurdity in the photomontage by Hannah Höch, for example, probes the murky abyss of the Weimar Republic. And these days artists often opt for huge formats. Our biggest work on paper is by Nanne Meyer: it is over 10 metres long.
About 15,000 folios – prints and above all drawings – make up our collection in this field. They illustrate the splendid diversity of this genre in Berlin from the late 19th century up until the present. Major highlights are Dada Berlin, the East European avant-garde in the 1920s and New Objectivity. Other substantial subsets relate to Late Expressionism from 1914 onwards, the new dawn in art after 1945, New Figuration in the 1960s, art in East Berlin after the Wall was put up and then torn down, and – last, but not least – contemporary drawing.
Highlights in the collection
Important artists
Werner
Heldt
1904 - 1954
George
Grosz
1893 - 1959
Paul
Goesch
1885 - 1940
Hans
Uhlmann
1900 - 1975
Jeanne
Mammen
1890 - 1976
Dorothy
Iannone
1933
Hannah
Höch
1889 - 1978
Gertrude
Sandmann
1893 - 1981
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Dr. Annelie Lütgens
Head of Department of Prints and Drawings
Phone +49 030-789 02-863
luetgens@berlinischegalerie.de