“Nowhere do you get to know an artist better than in his graphic art” (E. L. Kirchner). The Berlin Museum of Prints and Drawings has the largest public collection of art on paper in Germany. It offers the opportunity to enjoy and explain selected works of art up close in a specially reserved seminar room. For 25 years I have offered seminars there on a wide variety of artists and aspects of printmaking. We explore graphic techniques such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, etching, mezzotint and silkscreen. In the process, we sharpen our eye for the special features of the prints of such outstanding, experimental artists as Schongauer, Dürer, Holbein, Goltzius, Rembrandt, Goya, Menzel, Klinger, Kollwitz, Picasso, Kirchner and Warhol — and many other giants of the graphic arts.
Innovations on paper