For more than 35 years, this bronze sculpture has stood in the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin on Fasanenstrasse. But last year the museum moved to the theater building of Charlottenburg Palace. That is why the sculpture designed by the artist Gustav Seitz was removed from the former rooms last Thursday.
To do this, it had to be dismantled into several parts and lifted out of the attic with a crane because the corridors of the old villa are narrow. The Noack art foundry, steeped in tradition, was in charge; she brought the work of art to her Charlottenburg workshops for renovation work.
Outside in front of the current building of the Kollwitz Museum on Spandauer Damm, the sculpture will probably not be erected until 2027. Until then, the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation wants to renovate some parts of the palace gardens.
The sculpture is a duplicate of the artist’s seated portrait, which has stood on Kollwitzplatz in Prenzlauer Berg since 1960, and was donated to the museum in 1986 by the sculptor’s widow, Luise Seitz.
And what will happen to the villa on Fasanenstrasse? The Berlin Exile Museum Foundation plans to move into offices in the coming week. The opening of the “Workshop Exile Museum” will follow on March 24th. It is about a “laboratory for the participatory further development” of the exhibition concept of the foundation as well as space for smaller projects, workshops and events.
The Exile Museum is also planning a large new building. However, this should not open in City West, but in 2026 at Anhalter Bahnhof in Kreuzberg.
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