Käthe Kollwitz — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works988

Museum Acquisitions

MoMA

Previous Sales 88

Sotheby's

Kindergruppe (Geshwister) (Group of Children (Siblings)), 1936

Unknown

May 2026

Sotheby's

Turm der Mütter (Tower of Mothers), 1937

Unknown

May 2026

Christie's

Stehende Frau, nach links, 1888

£228,600 ($302k USD)

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

Frauen mit Kindern (Women with Children)

£22,000 ($37k USD)

May 2021

Christie's

Frau im Bett mit ihrem Kind

$43,750

Dec 2020

Christie's

Sitzende Frau mit Umschlagtuch (Seated Woman with Shawl)

Christie's

Christie's

Tod mit Frau im Schoss

$80,500

Nov 2008

Christie's

Frau vertraut sich dem Tod an

Christie's

Christie's

Zuschauende Mädchen, nach links ( recto ); Zuschauende Knaben, nach links ( verso )

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Sotheby's

Fahnen, drei Fahnen, darüber eine nach rechts aufwärts schwebende nackte männliche Gestalt (Flags, Three Flags, A Naked Male Figure Floating Above Them), 1925

$27,940

Jul 2025

Bonhams

Grabrelief (Ruht im Frieden seiner Hände), 1935

Bought In

Jan 2025

Christie's

Brustbild einer Arbeiterfrau mit blauem Tuch (Bust of a Worker Woman with Blue Shawl), 1903

$40,320

Oct 2024

Sotheby's

Halbfigur einer Frau mit der rechten Hand den Mund bedeckend (Half Length Figure of a Woman with Her Right Hand Covering Her Mouth), 1905

$48,260

Nov 2023

Bonhams

Meditierende Frau, 1917

$107,475

May 2023

Christie's

Die Klage or Zum Gedenken Ernst Barlachs or Selbstbildnis, 1938

Christie's

Christie's

Sotheby's

Die Klage (The Lament)

$140,737

Mar 2022

Christie's

Der Abschied (The Goodbye), 1940

Bought In

Nov 2021

Sotheby's

Frauen mit Kindern (Women with Children), 1909

$39,105

May 2021

For Sale 2

EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS · 1stDibs

TOD, FRAU, UND KIND (DEATH, WOMAN, AND CHILD

$12,500

EDWARD T. POLLACK FINE ARTS · 1stDibs

TOD UND FRAU (DEATH AND WOMAN)

$12,500

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$2.3K – $882K

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$112K

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$100K

40 priced works on paper lots

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Nov 2025 · $34.8K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

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Works on paper: $100K medianSculpture/objects: $26.3K medianPaintings: $715 medianEditioned prints: $3.0K medianBooks/portfolios: $142 medianUnclassified lots: — median

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Publications6

Exhibition Catalog 3

Kollwitz

Hatje Cantz · 2024

Enrique Martínez Celaya & Käthe Kollwitz: Von den ersten und den letzten Dingen

Hatje Cantz · 2021

Kathe Kollwitz

Yale University Press · 1992

Survey 3

Illustration: A Concise History

Thames & Hudson · 2025

Holzschnitt 1400 bis heute

Hatje Cantz · 2022

Making It Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now

Thames & Hudson · 2022

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Current Exhibitions0

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Recent News20

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Sammlung Horn bleibt dauerhaft auf Schloss Gottorf

Bettina Horn, the Berlin-based art collector and philanthropist, has announced her intention to donate the Horn Collection—over 500 works of German Ex…

restitutionJun 5, 2026

Pasadena’s Hidden Art Legacy Gets Its Long-Overdue Spotlight at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts

Jack Rutberg Fine Arts in Pasadena presents "Pasadena: L.A.'s Art Legacy," an exhibition opening June 7 and running through August 29. Featuring nearl…

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Brook Hsu's exhibition "The Barcelona Pavilion (including work by Georg Kolbe)" at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler in Berlin presents a series of works that in…

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This week's art tips from Monopol magazine highlight exhibitions and events across Germany and Europe. In Berlin, the Helmut Newton Museum reopens wit…

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Jurors from the Kunstfonds Foundation, a major German contemporary art funding body, have accused Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer of atte…

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The National Gallery of Victoria has launched "Mother," an expansive exhibition featuring over 200 works that explore the complexities of motherhood. …

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The Getty Research Institute is hosting "How to Be a Guerrilla Girl," its first major exhibition drawn from the extensive archives of the anonymous fe…

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The Albuquerque Museum has opened a landmark exhibition titled "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgaleri…

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The National WWII Museum in New Orleans will host the traveling exhibition "Degenerate! Hitler's War on Modern Art" from November 6, 2025, through May…

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The Art Institute of Chicago has opened an exhibition titled 'Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination,' drawn entirely from its own collection. T…

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The Otto Kallir family has donated over 130 Austrian Expressionist works valued at more than $60 million to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACM…

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Past Exhibitions12

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Albertina

Gothic Modern: Munch, Beckmann, Kollwitz

Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz

Albertinapl. 1, 1010 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2025

Edvard Munch, Max Beckmann, Käthe Kollwitz — 19 September 2025

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#6,203 National Gallery of Denmark

Käthe Kollwitz – Mensch

Käthe Kollwitz

Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 Indre By, Denmark

Nov 7, 2024 — Feb 5, 2025

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Statens Museum for Kunst

Käthe Kollwitz – Mensch

Käthe Kollwitz

Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 Indre By, Denmark

Jan 1, 2024 — Jan 1, 2025

Käthe Kollwitz — 7 November 2024 – 23 February 2025

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Art Gallery of Ontario

Käthe Kollwitz: Voice of the People

Käthe Kollwitz

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Oct 13, 2018 — Mar 3, 2019

Käthe Kollwitz: Voice of the People October 13, 2018 – March 3, 2019 Learn More

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#2,972 Atlantean Art Gallery

Käthe Kollwitz: Voice of the People

Käthe Kollwitz

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Oct 13, 2018 — Jan 11, 2019

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Art Gallery of Ontario

Käthe Kollwitz: Art and Life

Käthe Kollwitz

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Apr 7, 2018 — Sep 30, 2018

Käthe Kollwitz: Art and Life April 7, 2018 - September 30, 2018. Learn More

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#2,972 Atlantean Art Gallery

Käthe Kollwitz: Art and Life

Käthe Kollwitz

317 Dundas St W, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4, Canada

Apr 7, 2018 — Jul 6, 2018

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Leopold Museum

Female Images

Tina Blau, Marie Egner, Olga Wisinger-Florian, Broncia Koller-Pinell, Käthe Kollwitz, Emma Bormann, Wally Wieselthier, Maria Likarz, Kitty Rix, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt

Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, Austria

Jan 1, 2017

Female Images From Biedermeier to Early Modernism 7th July to 18th September 2017

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Huntington Museum of Art

Macy’s Presents: WWW.PAPER (Women Working with Paper)

Maria Sibylla Merian, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Käthe Kollwitz, Marie Laurencin, Sonia Delaunay, Berenice Abbott, Blanche Lazzell, Louise Nevelson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Marcia Marx, Lee Bontecou, Yvonne Jacquette, Helen Frankenthaler, Kiki Smith, Miriam Schapiro, Ida Kohlmeyer, Lesley Dill, Maggie Taylor, Janet Fish, Lynda Benglis, Alison Saar, Joan Mitchell, Carrie Mae Weems, Sandy Skoglund, Sook Jin Jo

2033 McCoy Rd, Huntington, WV 25701, USA

Feb 28, 2015 — Jun 14, 2015

Maria Sibylla Merian, Kate Bingaman-Burt, Käthe Kollwitz, Marie Laurencin, Sonia Delaunay, Berenice Abbott, Blanche Lazzell, Louise Nevelson, Gloria Vanderbi...

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