Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin

Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum – © Käthe-Kollitz Museum

The sculptress and graphic designer Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945) lived and worked in Berlin for more than 50 years. She found many of her motifs in her immediate environment—a working district in Prenzlauer Berg, where her husband—at today’s Kollwitzplatz—ran a medical practice. The large range of her work equally encompasses the important and serious life themes, such as sorrow, destitute and death, hunger and war, as well as the cheerful moments of life.

In a late classical residential building, upon four levels, the small museum presents the work of the artist (born 1867 in Königsberg, died 1945 in Moritzburg after having lived and worked in Berlin for over 50 years): sculptural works, drawings, prints, and posters. Special exhibitions that illuminate the artist’s working environment compliment the permanent exhibition biannually.