One of the most surprising and shocking corners that you can see in the center Unter der Linden avenue de Berlin It's the one you find in the building New Guard (Die Neue Wache).
Among the Museum island and the Bebelplatz square, in front of Berlin Opera, you will see this small building with a characteristic neoclassical style façade, which was completed in 1918.
Originally the New Guard It was a Prussian guard barracks, which is understood by its proximity to the old Berlin Royal Palace, whose space is now occupied by the building of the Humboldt Forum.
But in your walk through the Unter der Linden avenue, during your Berlin visit, when you enter under the portico of Doric columns to the interior of the building of the New Guard, you will be surprised to find yourself in front of a completely empty room, and in the center of it, a sculpture.
What the Kollwitz Pieta is like and what it represents
It's about the work Mother with dead son, by the German artist Kathe Kollwitz.
However, this shocking sculpture is better known as The Kollwitz Pieta.
This German painter and sculptor, who developed her work during the first half of the 1945th century (she died in XNUMX, just after completing the Second World War), had a very dramatic life, due to the early deaths of his brothers and, later, of a son and a grandson in the two world wars.
This drama was reflected in all his work, and its best expression is the aforementioned sculpture Mother with dead son.
It shows the image of a mother in whose arms lies her recently dead soldier son.
During the time of the German Democratic Republic, the Kollwitz Pieta, a work that we now see in the aforementioned building of the New Guard, was presented as a tribute to the victims of fascism, but is currently considered a monument to the victims of wars and dictatorships.
In your visit to the New Guard, notice that the sculpture is located under an open circle on the roof, so that when it rains or snows in Berlin, the Kollwitz Pieta It gets wet or covered by snow, which accentuates the drama and the expression of pain.
In short, a little-known corner of the German capital, but one that you should not miss.
Comment