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Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin

At the end of May 1986, the Berlin painter and art dealer Hans Pels-Leusden (who died in April 1993) opened the privately directed Käte Kollwitz-Museum in a formerly upper-class home in Fasanenstraße, in the Charlottenburg-Willmersdorf district of Berlin. Four decades after the death of Käthe Kollwitz a permanent gallery for a major part of her complete works, in the city where Kollwitz lived and worked for more than fifty year has been set up thanks to this generous donation.

The Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin is located in the former first private home built 1871 in Fasanenstraße. Destroyed during the 2nd World War, the building underwent a fundamental restauration during the nineteen-eighties.
The museum is located next to the Literaturhaus, wich can be directly accessed through a special passageway, connecting the Kollwitz gallery garden to the Literaturhause café garden.

Käthe Kollwitz – Talking with Hands

From the Museums Collection

Special exhibition from November 7, 2020 till March 7, 2021 Käthe Kollwitz gives hands a special meaning in her works. She often depicts them excessively large so that they dominate the subject. Touching, feeling, protecting, demanding, supporting, praying: contacts of various kinds can be found in her drawings, prints and scultptures. They show comfort and love, or they tell of suffering and danger. The special exhibition follows this important motif with over 40 works from all of Käthe Kollwitz’s creative periods.

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Professional Association of Berlin Female Artists 1867 at Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin

Special exhibition from August 22, till October 25, 2020 The Association of Berlin Female Artists (VdBK) was founded as early 1867 and has acted as amotor, network and showcase for women artists ever since. It has been committed to professional women artists in a variety of ways and according to historical needs. Many well-known female modern artists had close ties with the professional association, either as members, aspupils, as teachers or as participants in the Association’s exhibitions. Today the VdBK unites 54 female artists from all over the world, whose life and work is... ( Weiterlesen )

Virtual tour of the special exhibition

100 YEARS OF GREATER BERLIN

Stay at home, stay safe – we bring Käthe Kollwitz to you! Welcome to the virtual tour of our exhibition, guided by director Dr Josephine Gabler (in German). [Read more…] about Virtual tour of the special exhibition

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Special exhibition on Ida Gerhardi March 2021 Stay tuned! More information will follow.

Käthe Kollwitz – Mother and Child

From a Private Collection

Special exhibition 10th February – 3rd May 2020, extended until 5th July 2020. Throughout her life, Käthe Kollwitz was an attentive observer who was also interested in everyday scenes, some of which she described in her diary and recorded in drawings. The sketches served her as practice and as a store of ideas for later artistic use. In this way, she acquired a skill that “enables me to express what I want without a model”, as she noted in her diary in 1909. Kollwitz never gave up sketching completely. Her sophisticated prints and large-format drawings, which were comp... ( Weiterlesen )

100 Years of Greater Berlin

Käthe Kollwitz and the Misery of the Big City

10th February – 3rd May 2020, extended until 5th July 2020 The “Law on the Formation of a New Berlin City Community” came into force on the 1st October 1920, triggering a long-standing dispute over the political responsibility for the expansion of Berlin. The social problems of the densely populated city of Berlin and the prosperity of the surrounding cities and municipalities should be balanced by incorporation into a single large community. Grievances caused by cramped living conditions, unemployment and life prospects have been a topic in the visual arts since the 1910s. In... ( Weiterlesen )

Holidays at Käthe Kollwitz Museum

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

We wish you a peaceful Christmas, wonderful winterdays and a good start to the New Year. Thanks to all of you for your support and your best wishes. We are open during the holiday season from 11 to 6. The museum is only closed on Christmas Eve, 24th of December, and New Year’s Eve, 31st of December. The museum is not moving yet. As usual, you’ll find us even in 2020 at Fasanenstraße 24. In 2020 we are open daily from 11 to 6.

August Gaul’s 150th Birthday

„Of all the artists, only you were dear to me like a friend” – Käthe Kollwitz

SPECIAL EXHIBITION from 11 November 2019 till 26 January 2020 OPENING 10 November 2019, 11am In celebrating the 150th birthday of the sculptor August Gaul, the Berlin Käthe Kollwitz Museum presents a retrospective on the work of Gaul, drawing exclusively from an old, hitherto unseen former Berlin collection. The animal sculptor August Gaul (1869-1921) is closely tied to the emergence of the Berlin Secession movement, which celebrates the 120th anniversary this year. His reduced-form art is regarded as a decisive starting point for the renewal of sculpture at the... ( Weiterlesen )

George Grosz – The Chicken in his Head

Ostracized, Traumatized, Indemnified

Special Exhibition from August 26 till October 27, 2019 The Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin presents the last graphic series by George Grosz. [Read more…] about George Grosz – The Chicken in his Head