Collections
In addition to the works by Busch, the museum owns an internationally significant collection of four centuries of satirical art, by artists including Honoré Daumier, James Gillray, Francisco de Goya, Thomas Theodor Heine, William Hogarth, Ronald Searle, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Tomi Ungerer, and A. Paul Weber. The collection has grown significantly since around 2000, with new acquisitions including 700 caricatures of Napoleon, works by the Austrian caricaturist Erich Sokol, the estate of the draughtsman Volker Kriegel, and more recently that of Friedrich Karl Waechter.
The museum owns, among other things, estates and endowments from the following artists:
- Wilhelm Busch
- Paul Flora, endowment, 370 works (1970–1972)
- Hanns Erich Köhler, estate, 4,383 works (1971)
- Volker Kriegel, estate, over 700 works (2005)
- Friedrich Karl Waechter, estate, around 3,400 works (2007)
- Ronald Searle, estate on permanent loan, around 2,200 works (2010)
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