The hospital as a work of art: one hundred thirty years of dermatology in Dresden-Friedrichstadt.

The department of dermatology at the Hospital Dresden-Friedrichstadt (Dresden, Germany) was founded in 1874 as one of the oldest departments of dermatology in a municipal hospital in Germany. Dresden was the capital of Saxony and, as such, one of the most influential cultural centers of Germany. This particular situation is also reflected by the hospital's history itself.