Posts Tagged ‘Käthe Kollwitz’
Kollwitzplatz Farmers Market
A popular weekly farmers market in Prenzlauer Berg's pretty Kollwitzplatz Kollwitzplatz is today one of Prenzlauer Berg’s best-known and (arguably) most attractive squares. Named after the famed artist Käthe Kollwitz, whose work reveals it to have once been home to the city’s impoverished and downtrodden, it was one of the first areas to be gentrified when the Wall fell in 1989. You’d never guess at the area's working class roots as you stroll around the leafy, cobbled streets [...]
Käthe Kollwitz Museum
A harrowing collection of works by one of Germany’s most acclaimed female artists… Charlottenburg’s Käthe Kollwitz Museum is one of those Berlin attractions not particularly recommended for anyone looking to cheer themselves up on a rainy day. This permanent exhibition, which opened in 1986, is housed in a charming 19th century villa next to the Literaturhaus on Fasanenstrasse. It presents an extensive range of the German artist’s work, embracing “crucial aspects of life [...]
