Museum closed – Experience Käthe Kollwitz virtually
Although the exhibition at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum has been temporarily closed, the artist is still present. The Kollwitz avatar stands ready for a conversation in the museum foyer.
On the anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz’s death
Today we remember Käthe Kollwitz, who died 80 years ago, on April 22, 1945, in Moritzburg. In the last months of her life, she found a quiet refuge in the seclusion of the “Rüdenhof”, while the world around her sank into the chaos of the Second World War. Her death went unnoticed until July 1945 and she was finally transferred to the family grave in Berlin’s Friedrichsfelde cemetery.
Karl Kollwitz – physician and social politician
LECTURE
More than the man at Käthe’s side
The physician and committed social politician Karl Kollwitz, who worked to the point of exhaustion, was a Berlin legend during his lifetime. The authors Sonya and Yury Winterberg use unpublished documents to honour the life and work of an impressive personality with whom Käthe Kollwitz walked side by side for five decades. .
Thursday, April 3, 2025
19.00
Entrance fee 8,00 euros / reduced 5,00 euros
Art by VEB?
LECTURE
Dr. Uwe Hartmann, Head of the Department for the Loss of Cultural Property in the 20th Century in Europe (German Lost Art Foundation in Magdeburg), will give an overview of the framework conditions in the GDR for collecting art and cultural property, the nationalization of the art trade and the politically motivated confiscation and expropriation of art collections.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
at 19.00
Entrance fee 8,00 euros / reduced 5,00 euros
Richard Scheibe
LECTURE & GUIDED TOUR
Dr Josephine Gabler talks about the artist Richard Scheibe as part of the exhibition “Bilder und Zeiten – 75 Jahre Deutscher Künstlerbund” at the Kunsthaus Dahlem. Afterwards, museum director Dr Dorothea Schöne invites you on a special tour of the Kunsthaus.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
at 18:00, Kunsthaus Dahlem
Entrance free, registration is requested
The art of investigation
LECTURE
A special evening with a special topic! Our guest is Berlin chief detective René Allonge: he convicts forgers and art thieves.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
19:00
Entrance 8,00 euros | reduced 5,00 euros
Merry Christmas
Also open on public holidays from 11.00 to 18.00.
The museum is closed on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
The world artist
Lecture about the reception of Käthe Kollwitz in Asia by East Asia expert Dr. Werner Kraus
Thursday, November 14, 2024
19.00
Entrance 5,00 euros | reduced 3,00 euros
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
The INTERVENTION format, which was successfully launched last year, will continue in 2024 – this year’s motto is “Kollwitz meets Colleagues”.
From October 19, 2024 to February 16, 2025, we will be showing woodcuts by the painter and graphic artist Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976). Käthe Kollwitz initially had to adjust her eyes to the new, expressionist works of the young “Brücke” artists. After the First World War, her own devotion to the technique of woodcutting gave her access to Expressionism. Her war cycle is now juxtaposed with the ten woodcuts from the years 1914 – 1918 compiled by Schmidt-Rottluff for a graphic portfolio.
On the 130th birthday of Otto Nagel
READING
Salka-Valka Schallenberg, granddaughter of the Berlin painter Otto Nagel (1894-1967), reads from her publication “Erzähltes & Ungesagtes meiner Großeltern Walentina und Otto Nagel”
Thursday, September 12, 2024
19.00
Admission fee 5,00 euros | reduced 3,00 euros