Innovations on paper

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.