Museum Cinema / Käthe Kollwitz: Pictures of a Life, 1986

At evening time there shall be light | A Cinematic View of the Museum’s Exhibitions
Curator: Karin Rywkind Segal

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is proud to present a rich weekend of films, carefully selected in dialogue with the current exhibition season—shows conceived in response to the turbulent times in which we are living. These include Year Zero, The Day is Gone: 100 Years of the New Objectivity, andVision of the New Bones: Jewish Imaginations after 1940. The film program accompanies these exhibitions, enriching and deepening the visitor experience.

The screenings will be accompanied by introductions from the Museum’s curators and guest lecturers. Some screenings will take place in the galleries.

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Käthe Kollwitz: Pictures of a Life
Director: Ralf Kirsten | With: Jutta Wachowiak, Fred Düren, Matthias Freihof | DDR (German Democratic Republic), 1986 | 93 min. | German; Hebrew subtitles

A hybrid film combining documentary and fiction, unfolding across both past and present. It traces the life of the artist Käthe Kollwitz from 1914 to 1945, interwoven with the research process of actress Jutta Wachowiak as she prepares to portray her.

By the age of 47, at the outbreak of World War I, Kollwitz was already a widely recognized and respected artist. The death of her younger son Peter—who volunteered for military service and was killed just two weeks later—became the deepest rupture in her life, transforming her into a pacifist and later an opponent of the Nazi regime. From that point on, themes such as “mother and child,” “war and peace,” and “life and death” became central to her work, inseparable from her personal experience.

The screening is made possible through the generous support of the Goethe-Institut.

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The films screened over the weekend are in dialogue with the exhibitions currently on view at the Museum, including Year Zero, andVision of the New Bones: Jewish Imaginations after 1940, as well as a recently presented exhibition, The Day is Gone: 100 Years of the New Objectivity. Like the artworks, they emerge from the history of twentieth-century Europe—particularly in the context of the World Wars and their aftermath—and span historical rupture, a sober gaze at reality, and a search for new horizons of hope. In the shared space of cinema and visual art, both engage with questions of identity, memory, and the human condition in times of upheaval and uncertainty, offering distinct yet resonant ways of reflecting on similar experiences.

We invite you to visit the exhibitions to expand your viewing experience. An intimate encounter with the artworks on view can deepen your understanding of the social contexts reflected in the films.

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Note: Film introductions will be in Hebrew.
The number of participants is limited | Advance reservations are required for all participants.
Participation in the tour includes entrance ticket to the Museum.

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