Kupferstichkabinett Dresden is Dresden's Cabinet of Drawings and Prints. It is located in the Dresden Castle, or Royal Palace (Residenzschloss), a 16th century palace that houses other museums (the Grünes Gewölbe , the Numismatic Cabinet and the Dresden Arms Museum). The museum is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the state collection of the Land of Saxony.
The museum's collection includes over 500,000 works, of which only a part can be exhibited, also given their fragility. There are works from the Middle Ages to the present day: autographed drawings, watercolors, etchings, lithographs, illustrated books, prints, mini-posters and photographs. These include autographs by Lucas Cranach the Elder, Dürer, Van Eyck, Goya, Hans Holbein the Younger, Michelangelo, Piranesi, Rembrandt and Rubens. There is also a large number of works by artists with strong links to Dresden, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Richter, Georg Baselitz and Johannes Heisig. As for the artists of the more recent era, there is a large collection of Käthe Kollwitz, which includes over 200 works of drawings and graphics. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the Kupferstichkabinett also hosts temporary exhibitions with works that are not normally on display and those on loan from other major museums.