Käthe Kollwitz Museum - a Berlin gem
Käthe Kollwitz Museum - Berlin The art of Käthe Kollwitz has been a part of my life as far back as I can remember. She produced works that touched my parents on an emotional level unlike most others. Some of her work lived with them until they died. So, there was no way that I would miss a chance to visit the Käthe Kollwitz Museum on a trip to Berlin. The Käthe Kollwitz Museum is housed in a villa built in 1867 in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin. It houses over 200 pieces by Mrs. Kollwitz and has a wonderful comprehensive display of her life’s work. Käthe Kollwitz (nee Schmidt) was born in Königsberg, Prussia (today Kaliningrad, Russia) in 1867. Her father was a socialist and her mother’s father was a Lutheran Self-Portait in Bronze reverend who was expelled from the state church for being too radical. At sixteen, she moved to Berlin to attend art school. She concentrated on drawing instead of painting, and her subjects were often workers, farmers and o...