Events

Book presentation

Käthe Kollwitz “I would like to exert influence in these times”

An event organized by Gebr. Mann Verlag at the Kollwitz-Museum Berlin

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz‘ death and the 80th anniversary of the end of the World War II, the recently published new edition of the book “I would like to exert influence in these times” on the diaries and letters of Käthe Kollwitz will be presented at the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin. Museum Director Dr Josephine Gabler wrote the foreword for this publication. You may also look forward to interesting guests who, as experts from art and research, will discuss civil courage and resilience in the here and now.

 

Admission fee 5,00 euros

Registration requested via E-mail to info@reimer-verlag.de

Lecture

More than the husband at Käthe’s side – the physician and social politician Karl Kollwitz

Without her husband Karl, her work would probably not have been possible, Käthe Kollwitz concluded. He supported the artist throughout her decades-long, turbulent marriage and her artistic work.

The author couple Sonya and Yury Winterberg have been dealing with the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz for many years in a journalistic, cinematic and curatorial capacity and, using unpublished documents, pay tribute to the life and work of Karl Kollwitz as a committed doctor and social politician at Käthe Kollwitz’ side.

 

Admission fee 8,00 euros / reduced 5,00 euros

Käthe and Karl, ca 1924, unknown photographer
Estate Kollwitz, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln

Lecture

The art of investigation: insights into the work of German art investigators

Ever since art has existed or been traded in, there has also been a criminal trade. Even works by Käthe Kollwitz were forged during her lifetime and beyond. In recent years, spectacular art thefts and art forgeries have repeatedly made headlines. In these cases, the expertise and know-how of art investigators is required to track down stolen works of art and thieves. But how do you become an art investigator and how do the investigators work?

René Allonge, Chief Investigator for Art Crime at the LKA Berlin since 2009, gives an insight into the everyday life of an art investigator and looks back at some extraordinary cases in his career, such as the art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi or the break-in at the Bode Museum.

 

Admission fee 8,00 euros / reduced 5,00 euros

© private archive

Lecture

Exhibition 75 Years of the Deutscher Künstlerbund
Lecture Richard Scheibe – An artist in four political systems

As part of the exhibition Images and Times – 75 Years of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, Dr Dorothea Schöne, Director of the Kunsthaus Dahlem, and Dr Josephine Gabler, Director of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, invite you to a special tour at the Kunsthaus Dahlem. The evening will begin with a short lecture by Josephine Gabler: Richard Scheibe – An artist in four political systems. Scheibe (1879-1964) was already a member of the artists’ association founded in 1903, which was re-established in 1950 after being banned in 1936. Following the lecture, Dorothea Schöne will give a guided tour of the exhibition and show the artistic changes that former members such as Richard Scheibe had to face.

 

Venue: Kunsthaus Dahlem, Käuzchensteig 12, 14195 Berlin

Please register at: info@kunsthaus-dahlem.de

Lecture

VEB art?
Private collecting, nationalised trade and the confiscation of cultural property in the former GDR

Art and antiques were exported from the former GDR to the “West” in order to earn foreign currency. Uncovering the extent of these exports was one of the central issues of the peaceful and democratic upheavals at the turn of 1989/90. What findings has research revealed to date? How did the systematic recording of art and cultural property work in order to remove it from private ownership and offer it on the “Western” art market? What challenges do provenance research and restitution practice face throughout Germany and abroad?

The lecture provides an overview of the framework conditions in the former GDR for collecting art and cultural assets, the nationalisation of the art trade and the politically motivated seizure and expropriation of art collections.

Since the founding of the German Lost Art Foundation in Magdeburg in 2015, Uwe Hartmann has headed the Department of Cultural Property Losses in the 20th Century in Europe.

 

Admission fee 8,00 euros / reduced 5,00 euros

Photo credit: Selection of business documents of Kunst und Antiquitäten GmbH from the BArch DL 210 / German Lost Art Foundation