Due to recent events
Prof Dr Arne Kollwitz died in Berlin on June 25, 2024 at the age of 93.
Annot Jacobi – Painter and peace activist
LECTURE
Art historian Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller introduces the life and work of Annot Jacobi (Berlin 1894 – Munich 1981), the prolific artist and great-niece of the painter Adolph Menzel, who is well worth getting to know.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
19.00
Admission fee 5 euros | reduced 3 euros
Dance of death. 1923 and its consequences
READING
How did Käthe Kollwitz and her contemporaries experience the inflation year of 1923?
Jutta Hoffritz has investigated this question and reads from her book about the rapid decline of the paper mark in the German Reich.
Friday, May 17, 2024
19.00
Admission fee 5,00 euros | reduced 3,00 euros
“I looked at the world with loving eyes”
Insights into the thoughts and life of a great artist
READING with Jan Kollwitz, great-grandson of Käthe Kollwitz, on the occasion of the anniversary of her death
Friday, April 26, 2024
19.00
Entrance fee 5,00 euros | reduced 3,00 euros
The exhibition “And yet it is art” will be open until 19.00.
Kollwitz meets colleagues
The INTERVENTION format, which was successfully launched last year, will be continued in 2024 – this year under the motto “Kollwitz meets colleagues”.
From 23 March to 23 June 2024, the museum will be presenting works from its collection by the sculptor WILHELM LOTH (1920-1993), who turned to Käthe Kollwitz for advice as a young, budding artist in the late 1930s. She encouraged him to devote himself fully to art. Her work and her influence had a lasting effect on the young Loth and references to Kollwitz can be found in his work.
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.
Private collection meets museum exhibition
Selected, special Kollwitz sheets from private collections will complement the general overview of the work in the exhibition “Aber Kunst ist es doch” (But it is art after all) and shorten the time without special exhibitions until the final exhibition rooms on the 1st floor of the theatre building are occupied. The second of three “Interventions” will run from 25 August to 29 October 2023, extendet till November 5, 2023.
From November 10, 2023, drawings and studies on “Simplicissimus” will be presented in the third and last INTERVENTION.
Happy Birthday, Käthe Kollwitz!
156 years ago, on 8 July 1867, Käthe Kollwitz was born. In the Kollwitz house, they knew how to celebrate birthdays, and so we are dedicating ourselves to the birthday rituals of the Kollwitz family on the occasion of the anniversary of our house artist.
On the anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz’s death
On 22 April 1945, Käthe Kollwitz died at the age of 77 in Moritzburg near Dresden. In the “Rüdenhof”, a manor house on the castle pond of Moritzburg, she found refuge from the war and spent the last months before her death there. In the end, her eyesight and physical strength were no longer sufficient…
Käthe Kollwitz – “And yet it is art”
After 36 successful years, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin has left its founding location in Charlottenburg’s Fasanenstraße and moved to the Theaterbau at Charlottenburg Palace.
On September 24, 2022, the museum will now open at its new location with expanded spatial possibilities after a short renovation phase.
From now on, the museum and its collection on the first floor of the building will be presented in a new presentation under the Kollwitz quote “And yet it is art”.