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Here you find all about our planned events and we draw your attention to special guided tours and let you take part in stories in front of and behind the scenes of the museum.

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum currently offers various digital tours! For example, let our Kollwitz Guide accompany you through the permanent exhibition and learn more background information about the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz. Or discover places in Berlin that inspired Käthe Kollwitz or where she worked artistically with the Käthe TO GO tour.

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Overview of upcoming events

On the anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz’s death

The great artist died 79 years ago today on April 22, 1945 in Moritzburg near Dresden. The news of her death was lost in the confusion of the last days of the war and the liberation by the Allies; it was not until the summer that the news reached the general public. In destroyed Berlin, her adopted home, an extensive Käthe Kollwitz memorial exhibition was organized for the autumn of the same year…

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“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.

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Public guided tour

every third Sunday of the month | 15:00

in German language
approx. 60 minutes
Participation included in the entrance fee

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Museum Sunday

Sundays at the museum! From July 4, 2021, admission is free on the first Sunday of every month—everyone is welcome and warmly invited. There is a lot to discover at our museumOn Berlin’s Museum Sunday there is something for everyone. We look forward to your visit.

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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.

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