The ALBERTINA presents a retrospective of the history of printmaking over a period of six centuries, from Albrecht Dürer and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiki Smith and Damien Hirst. The two exhibitions planned as a pas de deux – at both ALBERTINA locations – span from works of the late Middle Ages to the prints of contemporary art. The two exhibitions are joined by a third, as it were, dedicated solely to the most important printmaker of the 20th century: Picasso.

The first exhibit, Dürer. Munch. Miró – The Great Masters of Printmaking will open at the ALBERTINA at the end of January. It presents outstanding works of the so-called ‘Old Masters’ – including Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Rembrandt van Rijn – and leads up to the impressive works of modern and contemporary art.