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Overview of upcoming events

Lectures & Readings
Art experience

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.

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Lange Nacht der Museen

75 participating museums and 750 events are in store for Berlin’s cultural night owls on the night of August 26. In addition to its usual opening hours, the Kollwitz Museum will also open its doors between 18.00  and 2.00 at night and offer a varied program under this year’s motto “Sounds of Berlin”.

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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.

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Berlin Seniors’ Week

Join us for a conversation on the topic of “Talking Hands in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz”.

90-minute exhibition talks on
Sunday, June 25, at 15.00 and Thursday, June 29, at 14.00

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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…

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