The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is a museum in Berlin that owns one of the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz, who lived and worked in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years. The museum opened in 1986, and traces its origins to the art collector Hans Pels-Leusden.
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You can pick up the Käthe Kollwitz thread once more at this museum dedicated to the female painter and sculptor.
In a Historicist villa on Fasanenstraße are some 200 woodcuts, paintings, sculptures, graphics and posters.
A member of the Expressionist and then New Objectify movements, Kollwitz spent a lot of her career in Prenzlauer Berg, which was a working class district at the time, and her art gave a voice to the downtrodden during industrialisation.
That empathy shines through in prints like “Brot!”, and the anti-war woodcut cycle “Krieg”. On the top floor, in a gallery drenched with natural light is a well-known two-metre sculpture of Kollwitz by...
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The attached picture is a replica from the most famous sculpture of Kathe Kollwitz, that you can see close to the Island Museum. Kathe Kollwitz Museum is an intimate building adjacent to Charlottenburg Palace, with many impactful and unforgettable drawings and sculptures from Kathe Kollwitz. Impressive to see the evolution of her heart trying to express the pain and struggle of a mother who has lost a son during first world war. It's not the most well known museum in Berlin, but if it is worth the detour. If you visit Charlottenburg Palace, you should anticipate 45 minutes more to be mind blown...
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Very interesting museum about a female artist and her life work. The etchings are from a very dark time in Europe. She experienced the death of her own son in WW1 and much personal suffering and death she witnessed. She championed the cause of the poor and oppressed. I left her exhibition with a great degree of appreciation and affection. A lot of her etchings deal with suffering and death. The beginning years were much more joyful. She was an accomplished sculptor worker and all three of her known sculpture works are in the Museum. My favorite sculpture was two babies in the arm of a...
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