Käthe Kollwitz – And yet it is art

After 36 successful years, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin has left its founding location in Charlottenburg's Fasanenstrasse and moved to the theater building at Charlottenburg Palace. In September 2022, the museum will now open after a short renovation phase.

From now on, the museum and its collection will be presented on the first floor of the building in a new presentation under the Kollwitz quote "But art it is." The artist Käthe Kollwitz, who was already known worldwide during her lifetime, had herself once issued the motto: "I want to have an effect in this time". Many of her works are still anchored in people's pictorial memory today as accusations against social grievances and warnings against war and violence. Despite her declared aim to achieve a broad impact with her prints, Käthe Kollwitz always saw herself first and foremost as an artist.

With almost 100 works by Käthe Kollwitz on display, the museum in the Theaterbau presents a third more works than in Fasanenstraße.