Neue Wache
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The Neue Wache is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for
Neue Wache, Unter den Linden, Berlin Mitte, Nacht
Parade in the Opernplatz in Berlin by Franz Krüger, 1830. The Neue Wache is on the right.
Original view of the Neue Wache with flanking statues of von Scharnhorst and von Bülow, 1938
Scharnhorst statue, originally erected next to the Neue Wache
Käthe Kollwitz
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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
Neue Wache
…personal suggestion of the Federal Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl, the East German memorial piece was removed and replaced by an enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz's sculpture Mother with her Dead Son. The pietà-style sculpture is directly placed under the oculus, and so is exposed to the rain, snow and cold of…
Kollwitz in 1927
Self-Portrait at the Table (1893). Print. This example housed at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
Woman with Dead Child, 1903 etching
The March of the Weavers in Berlin