Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum at Fasanenstrasse 24 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg , which has existed since 1986, emerged from the private collection of the painter, gallery owner and art collector Hans Pels-Leusden , who died in 1993 .
Building the collection
Pels-Leusden has been collecting the works of Käthe Kollwitz since taking over the Berlin company “Buch und Kunst” at Olivaer Platz in 1950 , because this artist represented life in a brilliant and comprehensive way. In 1965 he dedicated his first exhibition to Käthe Kollwitz. Many international exhibitions have been loaned from his collection. He donated 95 prints, 40 drawings and 10 original posters to the museum.
management
Martin Fritsch was the founding director of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin . Iris Berndt headed the collection from 2014 to 2017. Her successor as director is Josephine Gabler , who has a doctorate in art history , previously headed the Museum Moderne Kunst Wörlen in Passau and took office on April 1, 2018.
exhibition
After an introduction on the ground floor, the museum shows important parts of the artistic work of Käthe Kollwitz, who lived and worked in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg for over 50 years, in a permanent exhibition over three floors .
As a rule, special exhibitions take place here twice a year, which illuminate the artist's environment. The museum currently has around 200 graphic and graphic works - including many famous works such as the lithograph Bread! from 1924 - as well as 15 original posters and just as many sculptural works of art . The focus is on the collection of self-portraits (from 1888/1889 to 1938), the woodcut war cycle (1922/1923), works on the subject of death (1903 to 1942) and the memorial sheet for Karl Liebknecht (1919/1920).
The self-portraits show Käthe Kollwitz through all ages, from young and smiling to old age. The 2.10 m high sculpture of Käthe Kollwitz, which was created by the sculptor Gustav Seitz , is located on the light-flooded upper floor . Her drawing of a mother who holds back her children who want to go to war full of enthusiasm is startling , with the title Seeds should not be ground .
For the artist's 150th birthday, the museum showed the exhibition Käthe Kollwitz and her friends, for which a catalog was also published.
Museum building
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin is located in a city villa built in 1871 as the first residential building on Fasanenstrasse , which was converted into a palace in the late classical style in 1897 . The building, which was half-dilapidated after the Second World War , was fundamentally restored and converted into a museum in the 1980s. The villa is compact, has large rounded windows, and the entrance is on the side.
What is striking is the contrast between the middle-class environment of the museum and the socially critical motifs of Käthe Kollwitz's work, which predominantly came from the proletarian milieu of her time .
The building in which the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin is housed belongs to the so-called " Wintergarten Ensemble ", as well as the neighboring Literaturhaus Berlin with the Café Wintergarten, which can be reached directly from the Museum Garden, and the Villa Grisebach .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum. ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin, accessed on September 7, 2015.
- ↑ Käthe Kollwitz Museum The director Iris Berndt gives up - Berliner Zeitung 2017
- ↑ Kollwitz Museum. Josephine Gabler takes over. in FAZ from November 1, 2017, page 11
- ↑ Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum press release 10/2017 of October 24, 2017: The Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin has a new director. , accessed on March 27, 2018
- ↑ exhibitions. ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin, accessed on September 7, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 6.4 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 37.2" E