Events

January 11, 2024

19:00

Lecture

The painter and graphic artist Julie Wolfthorn
„I want to conquer the world with a brush & palette“

On the occasion of her 160th birthday, art historian Heike Carstensen presents the artist Julie Wolfthorn (born 1864 in Thorn, West Prussia; died 1944 in Theresienstadt concentration camp). She was a founding member of the Berlin Secession, a long-standing member of the Association of Berlin Women Artists and painted portraits of many personalities in Berlin society.

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

photo credit: Julie Wolfthorn, Hexchen/Waldhexe (2nd version), 1899
The Jack Daulton Collection, Los Altos Hils, CA, public domain

February 15, 2024

Lecture unfortunately cancelled!

Lecture unfortunately cancelled!

It’s carnival time!

As a bacchante surrounded by her fellow painters or as a goose maid at a carnival party – how did Käthe Kollwitz and her artist friends celebrate their festivities back then?

Art historian Dr Miriam-Esther Owesle heads the Guthman Akademie, which was founded in 2015 and, with its venue in the Neu-Cladow manor house, draws on the salon culture of art historian, writer and collector Johannes Guthmann (1876-1956). Dr Owesle’s academic work focuses on Berlin’s art and cultural history around 1900, among other things.

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

March 14, 2024

19:00

Lecture

The world artist – Käthe Kollwitz’ reception in Asia.

Dr. Werner Kraus, Co-founder of the Chair of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau and director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Art, examines the fame and impact of Käthe Kollwitz in Asia, explains the colonial conditions in which the European artists operated and describes their relationship with local artists.

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

April 26, 2024

19:00

Reading

Insights into the thoughts and life of an artist
on the occasion of the anniversary of Käthe Kollwitz’ death

Jan Kollwitz (*1960), ceramic artist and great-grandson of Käthe Kollwitz, reads from the letters and diaries of his great-grandmother.

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

May 17, 2024

19:00

Reading

Dance of death
1923 and its consequences

“As far as the economy is concerned, 60 million have arrived from you. I have also laid out 34 million for the bill for light and 6 million for Vorwärts. The receipts are with the letters. Then to Mrs Fechter 4 million and to the economy first 50 then 20 million totalling 114 million. You have to deduct what I ate here from the total.
Now farewell and greetings, I enjoyed my time here with you.
Your mother.”
Käthe Kollwitz to her son Hans, September 1923

 

The Hamburg journalist Jutta Hoffritz reads from her book about the inflation year 1923 and repeatedly refers to Käthe Kollwitz alongside other well-known figures from contemporary history. Her poster “Germany’s children are starving”, created for the Workers’ Welfare Association at the end of the year, symbolises the developments of 1923. The publication was prompted by a “calendar sheet” written by the author for Deutschlandfunk radio about the inflation winner Hugo Stinnes.

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

June 20, 2024

19:00

Lecture

“There was no academy at that time where women were admitted”
Annot Jacobi – painter and peace activist

Art historian Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller presents the life and work of Annot Jacobi (1894-1981).

Jacobi, the niece of Adolph Menzel was a member of the Berlin Secession, the Association of Berlin Women Artists, the Prussian Academy of Arts and a founding member of the League for Human Rights and the Women’s League for Peace and Freedom. From the 1920s onwards, she portrayed working women, artists and political activists in Germany and the USA, where she emigrated to in 1933. In addition to portrait painting, Jacobi devoted herself to still life painting as well as nudes and landscapes.

Victoria Hohmann-Vierheller studied art history at the Free University of Berlin. She is an author, editor and text artist and wrote her master’s thesis on Annot Jacobi, on whom she is currently conducting research.

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

photo credit: Annot Jacobi, Akt Blondes, 1926,
with André Lhote at the painting school
© private collection

July 14, 2024

11:00

Guided tour

through the sculpture park “Figures in the Park”
on the site of the DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend

A cultural Sunday walk with art historian Dr Eva Morawietz, who will guide you through the museum sculpture landscape “Figures in the Park”. Over 30 works by internationally renowned artists such as Rolf Szymanski, Dietrich Klinge, Wilhelm Loth, Alexander Polzin, Horst Antes, Fritz Cremer and Leiko Ikemura are part of this open-air exhibition on the site of the DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend, which is open to the public.

Dr Eva Morawietz is a board member of FIGUREN IM PARK – Foundation of Heidi and Dieter Brusberg with the DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend and also heads the LUDES Foundation in Potsdam.

 

Admission fee 5,00 euros / reduced 3,00 euros

photo credit: Wilhelm Loth, Signal anthropomorph, 1960
© FIGUREN IM PARK – Stiftung von Heidi und Dieter Brusberg
mit den DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend, photo: Roman März