Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin

Monday, 29 October 2018 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General, Berlin, Museums, Exhibitions
Reading Time:  2 minutes

Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin © De-okin/cc-by-sa-3.0

Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin © De-okin/cc-by-sa-3.0

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin owns one of the largest collections of works by the German artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945). Kollwitz 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 (d.1993). Pels-Leusden had been collecting the artist’s works since 1950, and created his first Kollwitz exhibition in 1965. He endowed 95 printed graphics, 40 drawings and 10 original posters to the museum.

'Mutter mit Zwillingen' (Mother with twins) in front of the museum © Axel Mauruszat Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin © Fridolin freudenfett/cc-by-sa-4.0 Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin © De-okin/cc-by-sa-3.0 Gedenktafel Fasanenstr 24 - Erstes Wohnhaus in der Fasanenstraße © OTFW/cc-by-sa-3.0
<
>
Gedenktafel Fasanenstr 24 - Erstes Wohnhaus in der Fasanenstraße © OTFW/cc-by-sa-3.0
The museum now owns over 200 works, including prints, drawings, posters, sculptures and woodcuts. Highlights include the lithograph Brot! (1924), the self-portraits, the woodcut cycle Krieg (1922/23), works on the theme of death, and a woodcut in remembrance of Karl Liebknecht (1919/1920). The upper floor contains a 2.1-metre-high sculpture of Kollwitz by Gustav Seitz. There are special exhibitions roughly twice a year.

The museum is located on Fasanenstraße, in a villa from 1871 featuring late-classicist modifications from 1897. The building was partly destroyed during the Second World War, and not fully restored until the 1980s. It now forms part of the so-called Wintergartenensemble, together with the nearby Literaturhaus Berlin (including the Café Wintergarten) and the Villa Grisebach.

Read more on Käthe Kollwitz Museum, berlin.de – Käthe Kollwitz Museum, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Cologne, Käthe Kollwitz House Moritzburg and Wikipedia Käthe Kollwitz Museum (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.




Recommended posts:

Share this post: (Please note data protection regulations before using buttons)

Bydgoszcz in the northern Central Poland

Bydgoszcz in the northern Central Poland

[caption id="attachment_160981" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Former headquarters of Prussian Eastern Railway © Pit1233[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bydgoszcz is a city located in northern Poland, on the Brda and Vistula rivers. With a city population of 360,000, and an urban agglomeration with more than 470,000 inhabitants, Bydgoszcz is the 8th-largest city in Poland. It has been the seat of Bydgoszcz County and the co-capital, with Toruń, of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship since 1999. Bydgoszcz is part of the Byd...

[ read more ]

Allinge-Sandvig on Bornholm

Allinge-Sandvig on Bornholm

[caption id="attachment_152865" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Sandvig © Jens Bludau/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Allinge-Sandvig is a small town on the northern coast of the Baltic island of Bornholm in Denmark. Its population is 1,633. It was part of the former municipality Allinge-Gudhjem. Prior to Allinge and Sandvig becoming urban areas, people in the bronze age lived there and made rock carvings at Madsebakke. Not all carvings of ships, suns, and footprints have survived, however. Late in the 19th cent...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Normandy - Bayeux

Theme Week Normandy - Bayeux

[caption id="attachment_152722" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Anton Bielousov/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Bayeux is a commune in the Calvados department. Bayeux is a sub-prefecture of Calvados. It is the seat of the arrondissement of Bayeux and of the canton of Bayeux. The River Aure flows through Bayeux, offering panoramic views from a number of locations. The Jardin botanique de Bayeux is a botanical garden dating from 1864. Bayeux is a major tourist attraction, best known to British and French visitor...

[ read more ]

The European Union: Regional Policy

The European Union: Regional Policy

[responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Regional policy of the European Union The Regional policy of the European Union (EU), also referred as Cohesion Policy, is a policy with the stated aim of improving the economic well-being of regions in the EU (European Committee of the Regions) and also to avoid regional disparities. More than one third of the EU's budget is devoted to this policy, which aims to remove economic, social and territorial disparities across the EU, restructure declining industrial areas and diversify rural areas which have declini...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Armenia - Yerevan

Theme Week Armenia - Yerevan

[caption id="attachment_239287" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Republic Square and Government House © Sonanik/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Yerevan (sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia, as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the country, as its primate city. It has been the capital since 1918, the fourteenth in the history of Armenia and the seventh located ...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Japan

Theme Week Japan

[caption id="attachment_192065" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Tokyo - Ginza shopping area © Jordy Meow/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Japan (Nippon or Nihon, literally "State of Japan") is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asian continent and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and the Philippine Sea in the south. The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin", and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun". ...

[ read more ]

The European Union: The Budget

The European Union: The Budget

[responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"](Latest update: 21 August 2022) Now it's back to business: The European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources Günther Oettinger has presented the draft of the new EU budget and as we already know: Money can end friendships. This is no different between EU member states than between companies and private persons. However, this is not just an annual plan, but a five-year plan, this time with significantly changed circumstances to the previous plans, so that the negotiations until the unanimous decision-maki...

[ read more ]

New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum

New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum

[caption id="attachment_206448" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Holz85/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Neue Synagoge ("New Synagogue") was built 1859–1866 as the main synagogue of the Berlin Jewish community, on Oranienburger Straße. Because of its eastern Moorish style and resemblance to the Alhambra, it is an important architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century in Berlin. Jewish services are now held again in the New Synagogue; the congregation is the Berlin community's sole Masorti synagog...

[ read more ]

Theme Week Ecuador - Santo Domingo de los Colorados

Theme Week Ecuador - Santo Domingo de los Colorados

[caption id="attachment_171336" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Catedral de Santo Domingo © Berposen/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Santo Domingo de los Colorados, simply referred to as Santo Domingo, is a city and seat of the canton that bears its name. It is the fourth most populous city in Ecuador with a population of over 305,000, is an important commercial and industrial center, and serves as the capital of the Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas Province. The city is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San...

[ read more ]

Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank

Ma'ale Adumim in the West Bank

[caption id="attachment_240238" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Davidmosberg/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Ma'ale Adumim is an urban Israeli settlement organized as a city council in the West Bank of Palestine, seven kilometers (4.3 miles) east of Jerusalem. Ma'ale Adumim achieved city status in 1991. In 2015, its population was 37,555. It is located along Highway 1, which connects it to Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv Metropolitan Area. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal u...

[ read more ]

Return to TopReturn to Top
Dovemount Place © geograph.org.uk - Walter Baxter/cc-by-sa-2.0
Theme Week Scottish Borders – Hawick

Hawick is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands...

Tweed Bridge © Kjetil Bjørnsrud/cc-by-2.5
Theme Week Scottish Borders – Peebles

Peebles is a royal burgh in Peeblesshire, of which it is the county town, within the Scottish Borders region with...

Southfork Ranch © Sf46
Dallas in Texas

Dallas is a city in Texas. It is the most populous city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, which is the...

Schließen