Käthe Kollwitz Museum

This small museum is dedicated to Käthe Kollwitz, a German painter and sculptor whose powerful oeuvre powerfully addresses poverty and war (she was alive for both world wars, losing her youngest son in the first one and her grandson in the second). Her best-known piece, Mother with Her Dead Son, is one of the most devastating portrayals of the loss of war ever created (it is on view at the Neue Wache in Berlin). This small museum in the Charlottenburg district, in walking distance to the Brandenburger Hof hotel, shows many of Kollwitz’s self-portraits, lithographs and wood prints. A good coffee spot to process the heavy subject matter is the adjacent Literaturhaus Café.