{"id":12864,"date":"2025-03-24T12:20:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T11:31:31","slug":"karl-kollwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/news\/karl-kollwitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Kollwitz – physician and social politician"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row type=”vc_default” gap=”35″][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742815025778{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]LECTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n

on April 3, 2025\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Entrance fee 8,00 euros \/ reduced 5,00 euros[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Kollwitz exhibition
\ncan be visited until 19.00.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You are also welcome
\nto take part in the
\nSlow Art guided tour<\/a>
\nwith director
\nDr Josephine Gabler
\nat 18.00.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text]

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More than the man at K\u00e4the’s side<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742815787049{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]Without her husband Karl (1863-1940), K\u00e4the Kollwitz’ work would probably not have been possible. He supported the artist throughout her decades-long, turbulent marriage. “I know of no other person who can love so much, so wholeheartedly,” <\/em>she once summarised. Even on his deathbed, his thoughts were primarily on her artistic work. “K\u00e4the is very handicapped and stressed by my illness,”<\/em> Karl complained, and she was unable to go to the studio for weeks because of him.
\nAt this time, Kollwitz was working on the sculpture “Farewell”, which can be seen in the K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum in Berlin. A touching homage to their time together, from which she does not want to let go.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”8126″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Dr. Karl Kollwitz, drawing<\/em>, 1940 \u00a9 Private collection, on permanent loan to the K\u00e4the-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”3455″ img_size=”full” css=””][vc_column_text css=””]K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Abschied (Farewell)<\/em>, Bronze, 1940\/41 \u00a9 K\u00e4the-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin, photo Kienzle|Oberhammer<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”12390″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=”.vc_custom_1742811707510{padding-right: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]K\u00e4the and Karl Kollwitz<\/em> \u00a9 Estate Kollwitz, K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum K\u00f6ln[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742815468780{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]With his unshake\u00adable belief in their common bond and the time\u00adless signi\u00adficance of her work, Karl helped the artist, who suffered from mood swings and self-doubt, to over\u00adcome many a creative crisis. K\u00e4the appreciated his stead\u00ad\u00adfast\u00ad\u00adness and political clarity. While her world view ab\u00adsorbed various in\u00adfluences and was subject to change, Karl remained a pragma\u00adtist, social democrat and un\u00adwavering pacifist through\u00adout his life.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742815515926{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]His influence on the character of Kollwitz’ work should also not be under\u00adesti\u00admated. The fact that she did not become the maudlin “depictor of misery” that she was often labelled as is also thanks to the insights she gained into her husband’s medical practice and the living conditions of his patients. This medical practice also secured the financial foundation for the family for many years.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1742815637355{margin-right: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}”]And yet Karl Kollwitz was much more than just the man at K\u00e4the’s side. The physician and committed social politician, who worked to the point of exhaustion, was already a Berlin legend during his lifetime and was even dubbed the “Christ of Senefelder Platz” by one newspaper.<\/p>\n

Combining being a doctor with political action was considered a taboo at the time, but for Karl Kollwitz it was a necessity. As co-founder of the “Social Democratic Doctors\u2019 Association” and author of numerous essays, he fought for the doctor-patient relationship to be viewed holistically and not exclusively from an economic perspective. The debates he initiated seem astonishingly topical and are still going on today.<\/p>\n

Sonya and Yury Winterberg use unpublished documents to honour the life and work of an impressive and unjustly almost forgotten personality.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”7966″ img_size=”full” onclick=”img_link_large” css=”.vc_custom_1742811986830{padding-right: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]K\u00e4the and Karl Kollwitz in Karlstein near Bad Reichenhall, 1935<\/em> \u00a9 Estate Kollwitz, K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum K\u00f6ln<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text css=””]The author couple Sonya and Yury Winterberg<\/strong> have been working on topics of history, contemporary history and art for more than thirty years. Their documentary films have won numerous awards and their non-fiction books have been translated into nine languages. Their exploration of the life and work of K\u00e4the Kollwitz resulted in the biography “Kollwitz”<\/em>, the exhibition “Wie war mein Leben stark in Leidenschaft – K\u00e4the Kollwitz in Photographien und Selbstzeugnissen”<\/em> at the K\u00e4the Kollwitz Museum in Cologne and the documentary film “Kollwitz – Ein Leben in Leidenschaft”<\/em> (arte\/rbb) in 2015.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator]

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\n
\n

Workshop<\/p>\n

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

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\n
\n

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.
\nZeit\u00ad\u00adgleich k\u00f6nnen maximal\u00a0drei Familien oder\u00a0Haus\u00ad\u00adhalte teil\u00ad\u00adnehmen.<\/p>\n

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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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\n

Digitaler Begleiter<\/p>\n

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

[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”6086″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

\n

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<\/p>\n

More than the man at K\u00e4the’s side
\nThe physician and committed social politician Karl Kollwitz, who worked to the point of exhaustion, was a Berlin legend during his lifetime. The authors Sonya and Yury Winterberg use unpublished documents to honour the life and work of an impressive personality with whom K\u00e4the Kollwitz walked side by side for five decades. . <\/p>\n

Thursday, April 3, 2025
\n19.00
\nEntrance fee 8,00 euros \/ reduced 5,00 euros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12864","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\/12864","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=12864"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12870,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12864\/revisions\/12870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaethe-kollwitz.berlin\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}