Five hundred years of draughtsmanship in the German-speaking countries of Europe magnificently illustrated with seventy outstanding works. Drawn from the National Gallery of Canada’s permanent collection with many published here for the first time, they include graceful figure studies by Dürer and Klimt, engaging Romantic landscapes by Koch and Hackert, graphic Expressionist sketches by Kirchner and Nolde, and disturbing modern caricatures by Dix and Grosz.