George Kolbe Museum

Modernism and Refuge

Georg Kolbe’s Sensburg as an Architectural Monument of the Nineteen Twenties
Language: English/German

The richly illustrated publication portrays Kolbe’s extraordinary building ensemble and the context of its origins.
In the late nineteen twenties, the time when he built his spacious studio house in Berlin's Westend district, the sculptor Georg Kolbe (1877-1947) was at the height of his artistic success. Represented by the prestigious Cassirer and Flechtheim galleries, he had customers all over the world and was very well connected in Berlin artistic circles. After the unexpected and untimely death of his wife Benjamine, however, he longed for a place of retreat and creativity not far from her grave. Thus was born his “Sensburg”, named after the location of the modern brick ensemble in Sensburger Allee. Situated close to the city and at the same time on the edge of the Grunewald forest, it represents the translation of Kolbe's ideal of a fruitful interplay between art, nature and architecture into a tangible building.

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