Exhibitions archive

10.10.2019 — 5.1.2020
Exhibition extended until 26.1.2020
BERLIN REALISM
From Käthe Kollwitz to Otto Dix

4.10.2019 — 12.1.2020
Käthe Kollwitz 
»Je veux agir dans ce temps«
The Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln is exhibiting at the Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS)

4.7. — 29.9.2019 
Kollwitz in the dining room — 
Living with ›heavy fare‹
A glimpse into private Kollwitz collections

29.3. — 30.6.2019
ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS — BILDERKRIEGERIN
Photoszene-Festival Köln 2019

10.1. — 24.3.2019
19.6. — 16.9.2018
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ 
Turning Point(s)
New Beginnings and Upheaval between the German Empire and National Socialism

21.9.2018 — 6.1.2019
Eva Besnyö. Photographer
Budapest, Berlin, Amsterdam 

7. — 17. Juni 2018
Japan Begins on the Baltic Sea
Jan Kollwitz — 30 Years of Japanese Ceramics

2.3. — 3.6.2018
The Sculptor Thinks!
GERHARD MARCKS
From Drawing to Sculpture

15.12.2017 — 25.2.2018
Self-portraits
Tremezza von Brentano
Marking Her 75th Birthday

29.9. — 10.12.2017
KOLLWITZ NEU DENKEN
Recipients of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin 

13.6. — 17.9.2017
GUSTAV SEITZ
A monument to Käthe Kollwitz 
alongside this
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ
in portraits and self-portraits

10.3. — 5.7.2017 
UPRISING!
Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz
The Peasants’ War Cycle in Focus

12.1. — 22.2.2017
»Turning the Soul Outwards«
Kollwitz in Self-portraits
Two Important New Acquisitions for the Cologne Kollwitz Collection in Context

16.9.2016 — 8.1.2017
Annelise Kretschmer 
Photographs 1922 — 1975

21.6. — 11.9.2016
Lithography in Focus
The Refinements of Colour Printing
From Illustrative Advertising Prints, through Käthe Kollwitz, to Otto Dix

4.3. — 5.6.2016
CASTING HISTORIES
Käthe Kollwitz: Sculptures in Plaster, Stucco, Bronze and Zinc
Anniversary exhibition marking the publication of the first catalogue raisonné of Käthe Kollwitz’s sculptures

8.12.2015 — 3.2.2016
»… I want to be true, genuine and unadorned«
The Many Facets of Käthe Kollwitz’s Work

18.9. — 29.11.2015
»I Dance with my Brushes«
HANN TRIER
Watercolours and Drawings from the 1950s and 1960s

23.4. — 9.8.2015
»How Passionately I Lived My Life«
Käthe Kollwitz in Photographs and Personal Writings

16.1. — 19.4.2015
CASE STUDIES
KARIN KNEFFEL
Works on Paper

17.10.2014 — 11.1.2015
APOCALYPSES
At Home and at the Front
Käthe Kollwitz, the German Expressionists and the First World War

15.8. — 12.10.2014
The Worker’s Eye
Workers’ Photography around 1930
In collaboration with the Institut für Sächsische Geschichte und Volkskunde e.V., Dresden

4.5. — 15.6.2014
Proximity and Distance
The Graphic Artist Ottilie Ehlers-Kollwitz

1.2. — 27.4.2014
EMIL ORLIK
Between Japan and America

12.10.2013 — 26.1.2014
Berlin Impressionism
Works by the Berlin Secession from the Nationalgalerie

13.6. — 29.9.2013 
The Artist’s Own Choice
Käthe Kollwitz’s Two Major Portfolios from the 1920s in Context

22.3. — 9.6.2013
When Kitsch Was Still Art
19th-Century Colour Printmaking from the Collection of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

17.1. — 17.3.2013
MAX UHLIG
People and Landscape

14.9.2012 — 6.1.2013
LOTTE JACOBI
Photographs

14.6.— 9.9.2012
Expression through Form
KÄTHE KOLLWITZ
From Etching through Lithography to Woodcut

30.3. — 10.6.2012
WILHELM LOTH
Sculptures and Drawings from the 1950s and 1960s

12.1. — 25.3.2012
»Where Is the New Form for the New Content?«
Technique and Subject Matter in the Work of Käthe Kollwitz

7.10.2011 — 8.1.2012
ALRFED KUBIN
Parallel Worlds
In collaboration with the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg 

25.3. — 22.5.2011 
»Well, we’re alive!«
KARL ARNOLD
Berlin scenes from the 1920s
In collaboration with the Berlinische Galerie

8.2. — 20.3.2011
The Paris Works in the Cologne Kollwitz Collection
Reflections on the 2010 anniversary exhibition

29.10.2010 — 30.1.2011
»Paris enchanted me… «
Käthe Kollwitz and French Modernism
An exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln 

14.5. — 6.10.2010 
25 Years
Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
An overview of the collection, including new ccquisitions