Käthe Kollwitz Museum

Käthe Kollwitz worked in Berlin for most of her career, producing prints, drawings and sculptures that confronted poverty, war and above all grief with a directness rarely matched in early 20th-century German art. Her own life shaped that focus: she lost her younger son Peter in the first weeks of World War I and her grandson, also named Peter, in World War II, and both losses recur throughout decades of her subsequent work, most powerfully in the sculptural series that eventually informed the enlarged version of her "Mother with her Dead Son" now installed in the Neue Wache memorial on Unter den Linden.

This dedicated museum, housed in a townhouse on Fasanenstraße near Kurfürstendamm, holds the largest collection of her work anywhere, spanning her full career from early social-realist prints depicting Berlin's working poor through her mature graphic cycles on war and loss, alongside sculpture and rare personal items.