Kunstmuseum Basel’s Kupferstichkabinett is home to a unique collection of drawings by late 15^th and early 16^th century German masters. Conceived as a scholarly catalogue, this publication is devoted to a particularly important part of the collection: drawings by Albrecht Dürer and his circle. That circle included those artists who worked in Dürer’s workshop or had an affinity with him artistically: Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Schäufelin, Hans von Kulmbach, Hans Springinklee and Hans Leu the Younger. Most of the works come from the collection of Basel-based lawyer Basilius Amerbach (1533-1591), which was acquired from Amerbach’s heirs by the city of Basel in 1661.

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• Seminal work on the art of drawing during the German Renaissance
• First scholarly and systematic publication of key works from Basel’s Kupferstichkabinett

Christian Müller has been curator at the Kunstmuseum Basel since 1991 and head of the Kupferstichkabinett since 2001. He is a renowned expert on the subject. He is the author of the two catalogs of the Basel drawings by Hans Holbein the Younger (1996) and Urs Graf (2001)