Image requests

Do you need a digital reproduction? Would you like to publish something from our collections in your own publication? Do you need image material for your doctoral thesis?

For any form of use of image material - for example for research purposes, scientific publications, exhibitions, film contributions or commercial purposes - a written application for image use is required. You are welcome to send us your request with our application for image use / reproduction authorisation.

In any form of image use, the user is responsible for protecting the rights of third parties. These include, in particular, copyright and related rights, personal rights and property rights.

The Museums of the City of Dresden grant the simple right of use as specified in the application. The image material is only provided for the authorised purpose.

The regulations of the current version of the Fee Regulations (EGO) apply to the use of images from the collections of the museums of the City of Dresden. The fee structure distinguishes between provision, production and right of use. The prices are staggered according to the type of publication (print, e-book, online, film, etc.), circulation and distribution period.

The Photographic Collections comprise around 340,000 objects, of which around 280,000 are from the holdings of the Dresden City Museum and around 60,000 from the Dresden Technology Collections. The holdings range from extensive bundles from the early days of photography to positives and negatives on various carrier materials, digital images and films. With its photographic collection, the Stadtmuseum Dresden documents the cultural and everyday life, social and economic history as well as the urban development of the city. Significant holdings include Otto Richter's portrait collection, the cityscape and postcard collection, photo albums and the estates and photographs of August Kotzsch and Arno Helzel. The Dresden Technology Collections focus on the scientific and technical-historical aspects of photography as well as its industrial-historical context. The unique processes, artistic photographs, company archives (including VEB Pentacon, VEB TuR) and works by Louis Held, Hugo Erfurth and Franz Fiedler should be emphasised here.

The Dresden City Museums' collection of posters, documents, audio recordings and maps comprises a diverse range of written and visual sources. It includes deeds, personal documents and diaries, plans and maps, posters, files and company documents, as well as self-edited discs and floppy discs.

The collection of the City Museum and the Municipal Gallery provides a lively picture of social, political and cultural life since the 18th century. (Partial) estates of important personalities - including Carl Maria von Weber, Hermann Prell, Hans Bernhard Sprung and members of the von Schuch family - complete the collection.

The economic developments of the city can be traced through the holdings of the Dresden Technology Collections. The focus is on photographic and film technology (VEB Pentacon, Ihagee, Ernemann), sewing machines and typewriters (Seidel & Naumann) and microelectronics (VEB Robotron). (Partial) estates of formative personalities of Dresden's industrial culture are those of Emanuel Goldberg, Werner Hartmann, Walter Hahn and Benno Thorsch.