{"id":10723,"date":"2025-10-21T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2025-10-31T15:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:37:08","slug":"two-artists-see-this-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/news\/two-artists-see-this-city\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201eTwo artists see this city\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”vc_default” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1761921332616{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]LECTURE
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November 13, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

19.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

Entrance fee 8,00 \u20ac | reduced 5,00 \u20ac<\/p>\n

You can take part in the Slow Art tour at 6 p.m. before the lecture. The collection presentation can be visited until 19.00<\/p>\n

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The painter Jeanne Mammen<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]What would Berlin artist Jeanne Mammen, born in Sch\u00f6neberg in 1890 and died in Berlin in 1976, want to see, draw and paint in her city today, almost 50 years later? Her astute com-mentary on the wild 1920s reflects the frenzied pace of the Weimar Republic. Her paintings, created in her secret studio, often appear as metaphors in animal form, bearing witness to the oppression and repression during the Nazi era.<\/p>\n

Her almost abstract images tell of the post-war period and the spirit of optimism that prevailed at the time, depicting the political situation in Berlin during the Cold War and as a divided city from 1961 onwards. She would certainly have commented on the opening of the Wall on 9 November 1989: the rush to the shops, the tangible abundance before her eyes, so close to Christmas, and the empty shelves. The reunion with the formerly familiar area of Unter den Linden and the opera house would also have been worth capturing in sketches. On the way back, she would have taken a walk through the Tiergarten, enjoyed listening to the blackbirds and savoured the green idyll in the middle of the big city. Her understanding for climate activ-ists would have been just as great as it was for the student demonstrations in 1967\/68. Per-haps she would also have gone to the Berghain to experience today’s club scene. In her day, she was very familiar with the bars and variety theatres around Nollendorfplatz, whose guests she enjoyed observing and drawing. As a chronicler of this city, she continues to convey the Berlin way of life to this day.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14020″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]Unknown photographer
\nJeanne Mammen, around 1935
\n\u00a9 Jeanne Mammen Foundation at the Berlin City Museum Reproduction: Dorin Alexandru Ionita, Berlin<\/p>\n


\n<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”14135″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]Gert Ladewig, Portrait of Jeanne Mammen in her studio at Kudamm 29, 1975 \u00a9 Jeanne Mammen Founda-tion at the Berlin City Museum Reproduction: Dorin Alexandru Ionita, Berlin[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””]The artist K\u00e4the Kollwitz, who spent a year studying at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian in Paris in 1904, where Jeanne Mammen enrolled in 1907, is a kindred spirit. Perceiving social injustices, even though they themselves lived in much more comfortable circumstances, is just one thing these two artists have in common. Stylistically different, but very conscious of their female artistry, both made a striking mark and shaped the image of the \u201cnew woman\u201d. It is not known whether they ever met, but it seems likely that they were familiar with each other’s work.<\/p>\n

In an associative and historically grounded revue, both artists will meet and bring a moving era in Berlin back to life.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Dr. Martina Weinland<\/strong> was a research assistant at the Berlin City Museum from 1992 to summer 2024, where she served as cultural heritage officer from 2018 onwards, responsible for nine dependent art foundations, including the Jeanne Mammen Foundation, under the umbrella of the City Museum. Since 2022, she has been a lecturer in the guest student pro-gramme at the Free University of Berlin, focusing on women in art history \u2013 currently with the multi-year course topic \u201cArt is female\u201d. In January 2026, her biography of Jeanne Mammen will be published by BeBra Verlag on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Berlin artist’s death under the title: Jeanne Mammen \u2013 See you soon, my friends![\/vc_column_text]

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Workshop<\/p>\n

DRUCKWERKSTATT<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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12.00 bis 15.00 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>\n

K\u00e4the Kollwitz hat nicht nur Bilder gezeichnet, sondern auch Druckgraphiken hergestellt – zum Beispiel f\u00fcr Flugbl\u00e4tter und Plakate, wie ihr ber\u00fchmtes Plakat “Nie wieder Krieg!”.<\/p>\n

Im Workshop gibt es n\u00e4heres \u00fcber k\u00fcnstlerische Drucktechniken zu erfahren, Bildbeispiele von K\u00e4the Kollwitz in der Ausstellung zu sehen und die gro\u00dfe Ausdruckskraft dieser Bildsprache kennenzulernen. Anschlie\u00dfend k\u00f6nnen eigene Werke mit einem \u00e4hnlichen Verfahren gestaltet und sich dabei so richtig ausgedruckt werden!<\/p>\n

Der Workshop wird in Kooperation mit Jugend Im Museum<\/em>\u00a0e.V. angeboten.<\/p>\n

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Drop-In-Angebot<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bringen Sie min. 1 Stunde Arbeits\u00adzeit mit.
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Sprachen:<\/b> Deutsch, Spanisch<\/p>\n

Altersempfehlung:<\/b> Ab 8 Jahren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Digitaler Begleiter<\/p>\n

KOLLWITZ-GUIDE<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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11.00 bis 16.00 Uhr<\/strong><\/p>\n

Individuell und anspruchsvoll begleitet, kann man kontaktlos mit dem Kollwitz-Guide<\/strong> durch die R\u00e4ume der Dauerausstellung streifen.<\/p>\n

Mit spannenden kulturhistorischen und biografischen Hintergrundinformationen werden die Zeichnungen, Graphiken und Plastiken von K\u00e4the Kollwitz in den zeitlichen Kontext gesetzt.<\/p>\n

Der Multimedia-Guide ist bequem auf dem eigenen Smartphone im Browser zu \u00f6ffnen \u2013 eine App zu installieren ist nicht notwendig.<\/p>\n

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Sprachen:<\/b> Englisch, Deutsch<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lecture on the painter Jeanne Mammen<\/p>\n

Thursday, November 13, 2025
\n19.00
\nEntrance fee 8,00 \u20ac | reduced 5,00 \u20ac<\/p>\n

The K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum Berlin invites you to a lecture by art historian Dr. Martina Wein-land. The occasion is the 50th anniversary of the death of Berlin artist Jeanne Mammen, which will be commemorated next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-14","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14217,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/14217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}