Käthe Kollwitz Museum

Käthe Kollwitz was a German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles, including The Weavers and The Peasant War, depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class.
Käthe Kollwitz spent the last months of her life at the Rüdenhof in Moritzburg near Dresden. There she died on April 22, 1945. The building was reconstructed on the initiative of the Kreissparkasse Köln, the savings bank that operates the Käthe Kollwitz Museum, under monument preservation aspects. The German Foundation for Monument Protection, the Free State of Saxony and the municipality of Moritzburg were involved. Since 1995 the memorial has been open to the public as the Käthe Kollwitz House.