Located in the theater building at Charlottenburg Palace, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum features a permanent exhibition of approximately 100 of the artist’s works on the first floor.
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Blick in die Ausstellung im Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
Blick in die Ausstellung im Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
Blick in die AusstellungBlick in die Ausstellung im Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin
The artist (1867–1945), who was already world-renowned during her lifetime, once declared her own motto: “I want to make an impact in this era.” Many of her works remain etched in the public consciousness to this day as indictments of social injustices and warnings against war and violence. Despite her stated goal of achieving a broad impact with her prints, Käthe Kollwitz saw herself first and foremost as an artist.
As a skilled draftsman, with a love of experiment and a great talent for visual invention, her primary concern was to create an artistically sophisticated body of work. A slow working process, numerous attempts to find motifs, and the constant change of printmaking techniques characterize Kollwitz’s path to a finished work. She self-critically examined her work and compared it with contemporary works by colleagues, ultimately noting in her diary in December 1922: “But it is art, after all.”
From this perspective, the new permanent exhibition at Berlin’s Kollwitz Museum first explores—using its own holdings, and later alternating with loans from partner collections and private lenders—the artistic quality of the works by a printmaker and sculptor who has far too often been reduced to her political and social impact.
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- Daily 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., also open on Sundays and holidays
- Closed on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve
