Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln
Neumarkt 18-24 / Neumarkt Passage
50667 Köln
+49 (0)221 227 2899
+49 (0)221 227 2602
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Tue - Sun
11 am – 6 pm
Public holidays
First Thu each month
11 am – 8 pm
Mon
closed
The exhibition rooms of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln are expected to remain closed until autumn 2023 due to extensive construction measures.
You are welcome to visit our pop-up space RAUM FÜR NEUES - open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Coloured chalk on brownish drawing cardboard, NT 275
Kollwitz’ pastels of the Caveau des Innocents in Paris are among her most modern works. They show that she was familiar with the drawings of Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and also with the paintings of Édouard Vuillard. This pastel gives the most graphic description of the interior of the Caveau des Innocents. The gloomy cross-vault ceiling, the arched passageways and the cobbled floor are clearly discernible. A patron would have had to stoop to enter the tavern through the narrow entrance on the right.
Käthe Kollwitz, Man, standing, leaning his back against a wall, 1904, black chalk on laid paper, NT 275a