KÄTHE-KOLLWITZ-MUSEUM
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Museum dedicated to Kathe Kollwitz, presenting her sculptures and engravings which evoke social conditions, wars...
Once located on Fasanenstraße, a beautiful street in the Charlottenburg district, the museum has been housed in the former Charlottenburg Palace Theater since 2022. Famous for her sculptures and engravings denouncing the wretched social conditions of the proletariat and the consequences of the First World War, Käthe Kollwitz was very active between 1888 and 1945, the year of her death. In particular, she dedicated one of her works to the socialist leader Karl Liebknecht, assassinated in Berlin in 1919. Her work was made difficult by the Nazis, who forbade her to exhibit, and she also had some of her artist's awards withdrawn. Berliners had to wait patiently for the creation of a museum dedicated to the artist, as it was only in 1986 that it saw the light of day after years of effort. The museum features no fewer than 200 prints, 70 drawings and posters, and 15 bronzes, tracing the artistic production of this woman who marked her era and continues to do so. Indeed, Käthe Kollwitz devoted her entire life to drawing attention to the working class of the early 20th century, and left a vivid record of the two world wars and the social conditions they brought with them. Special exhibitions are also held throughout the year (ask for dates) at the museum, often referring to Käthe Kollwitz's entourage or to artists who took her as a source of inspiration.
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