The fundamental metrics, which describe any static three-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell spacetime (depending only on a unique spacelike coordinate), are found. In this case there are only three independent components of the electromagnetic field: two for the vector electric field and one for the scalar magnetic field. It is shown that we can not have any superposition of these components of the electric and magnetic fields in this kind of static gravitational field. One of the electrostatic Einstein-Maxwell solutions is related to the magnetostatic solution by a duality mapping, while the second electrostatic gravitational field must be solved separately. Solutions induced by the more general (2+1)-Maxwell tensor on the static cylindrically symmetric spacetimes are studied and it is shown that all of them are also connected by duality mappings. whereHere, the solution has radial electric and magnetic fields given by E(r) = q e /r 2 and B(r) = q m /r 2 respectively. The case q m = 0 describes a rest charge at the origin of spherical coordinates and q e = 0 may be interpreted as a magnetic monopole. The magnetically charged Reissner-Nordström solution is connected to the electrically charged solution, since all the cases with an electric field without sources can be reformulated to be the corresponding cases with a magnetic field (dual to the initial electric one) or mixtures of both fields (through a duality rotation). In all these cases the form of the metric is the same.The Einstein-Maxwell theories in (2+1)-dimensions without cosmological constant have been discussed by several authors [2,3,4]. In [4] the authors found the first three-dimensional static electrically charged space-time. Later the inclusion of the cosmological constant was considered. In (2+1)-dimensions there exist the electric and magnetic analogs to the Reissner-Nordström-Kottler solution. They are the static Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli * mcataldo@ubiobio.cl (BTZ) black hole (E = q e /r) [5]and the Hirschmann-Welch (HW) magnetic solutionis the electric charge, q m magnetic charge and M is the mass of the BTZ black hole. Both solutions are asymptotically anti-de Sitter, like the Reissner-Nordström-Kottler solution for Λ < 0. In Ref. [7] it is shown that the both solutions (3) and (4) are connected by a duality transformation. Rotating (2+1)-Einstein-Maxwell solutions have been obtained by several authors using an appropriate coordinate transformation [8,9]. Others solutions also have been obtained assuming selfdual (or anti-self-dual) condition imposed on the orthonormal basis components of the electric and magnetic fields [10,11,12]. Note that the presence of divergences at spatial infinity in the mass and angular momentum is an usual feature in electrically charged solutions [13]. The authors of the Ref. [11] and [14, 15] regularize these divergences by taking into account a boundary contribution or by the introduction of a topological ChernSimons term respectively. We note also that the magnetic solution (4) has been extended in order to incl...