Käthe Kollwitz

1867	born in Königsberg/Ostpeußen
1881-1886	Studied in Königsberg under the painter Gustav Naujok and the engraver Rudolf Mauer
1886-1887	Studied at the Damenakademie of the Vereins der Berliner Künstlerinnen under Karl Stauffer-Bern
1887	Lessons with the painter Emil Neide
1890	Studied at the Damenakademie of the Münchner Künstlerinnenvereins under Ludwig Herterich
1891	Moving to Berlin
1898	artistic breakthrough
1898-1903	Teaching position for Etching and Drawing at the Berliner Künstlerinnenschule
1901-1913	Member of the »Berliner Secession«
1907	Villa-Romana-Preis and Trip to Florence
1913	Switch to the »Freien Secession«
1913-1923	Co-founder and first chairwoman of the Frauenkunstverbandes
1919	first female member of the Preußischen Akademie der Künste
	appointment as professor
1929	Pour le Mérite Order for Science and the Arts
1933	forced resignation from the Preußischen Akademie der Künste by the National Socialists
1935	unofficial exhibition ban since then
1943	Destruction of their Berlin flat during a bombing raid
1944	Move to Moritzburg at the invitation of Prince Ernst Heinrich of Saxony
1945	died in Moritzburg