{"id":11941,"date":"2024-09-30T13:58:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2024-09-30T13:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T11:58:31","slug":"welcome-kaethe-kollwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/moving-blog\/welcome-kaethe-kollwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, K\u00e4the Kollwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”vc_default” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”11926″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1727693368066{margin-right: 25px !important;margin-left: 25px !important;border-right-width: 25px !important;border-left-width: 25px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]Over a year ago, on 12 January 2023, the bronze statue by sculptor Gustav Seitz (1906-1969) left its old museum location in Fasanenstra\u00dfe and has been waiting in the studios of the Hermann Noack fine art foundry to take its final place in Charlottenburg Palace Park.<\/p>\n

On 22 August the time had finally come! Just in time for the Long Night of Museums, the Berlin-based company Scherhag-Steinmetzwerkst\u00e4tten expertly positioned the almost 500 kg Kollwitz sculpture on the Franconian shell limestone plinth it had previously erected.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11928″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”11930″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image” css=””][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””]Like its counterpart on Kollwitzplatz in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, the museum’s bronze sculpture now stands as an open-air sculpture in front of the theatre building and shows visitors the way to the museum. Jan Kollwitz, the great-grandson of K\u00e4the Kollwitz, was also impressed by the new home of K\u00e4the Kollwitz during his recent visit to Berlin.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=”11932″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1727693488265{margin-right: 25px !important;margin-left: 25px !important;border-right-width: 25px !important;border-left-width: 25px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””]Our portrait figure of Gustav Seitz is the second casting, cast in the H. Noack fine art foundry, which was donated to the museum by Gustav Seitz’s widow, Luise Seitz, for the museum opening in May 1986. The first cast stands on Kollwitzplatz, formerly W\u00f6rther Platz, opposite the former home of K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district. Seitz created the sculpture at the end of the 1950s on behalf of the East Berlin magistrate. Back then, it was cast by the long-established foundry Seiler und Siebert.<\/p>\n

The seated figure is over 2 metres high and shows an aged K\u00e4the Kollwitz with a drawing portfolio on her left and a piece of coal in her right hand.<\/p>\n

A detailed article on the exciting history of the bronze sculpture will soon be published in our multimedia guide.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_single_image image=”11934″ img_size=”full” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1727693527566{margin-right: 25px !important;margin-left: 25px !important;border-right-width: 25px !important;border-left-width: 25px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”6465″ img_size=”large” alignment=”center” css=”.vc_custom_1640009533987{margin-right: 40px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-right-width: 40px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1640009549246{margin-right: 40px !important;border-right-width: 40px !important;padding-right: 40px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Heinrich Zille, Stra\u00dfenm\u00e4dchen<\/em>, 1902, Farbradierung \u00a9Privatsammlung<\/p>\n

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Lotte Jacobi, Selbstportr\u00e4t, 1929<\/strong> Berlinische Galerie \u00a9 2022 University of New Hampshire, USA<\/div>\n

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30. September 2024
\nK\u00e4the Kollwitz has finally arrived! Two years after the museum opened, the large-scale Kollwitz portrait figure is now in its final location in front of the theatre building at Charlottenburg Palace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-moving-blog","category-109","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","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=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11943,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions\/11943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}