After visits to the Michel Majerus Estate and the Hannah-Höch-Haus, our next visit takes us to Kurfürstendamm 29 and Jeanne Mammen’s former home and studio.

Born in Berlin, raised in Paris and trained as an artist in Brussels, Mammen returned to Berlin and, in 1920, moved with her sister Mimi into the 55-square-metre studio in the rear wing of the building. She would live and work there until her death in 1976. From these rooms, Mammen witnessed more than five decades of a radically changing Berlin: from the social life of the 1920s that made her drawings and watercolours famous, through National Socialism and the isolation of the war years, to the divided city and new artistic circles of the postwar period.

Initially a place of work and lively exchange, it became a secluded refuge during National Socialism, where Mammen continued to make work largely in private, before once again becoming a meeting place for artists and friends after 1945. Following her death, her friends preserved the rooms and their contents, and today the studio survives as an almost unchanged record of a life and practice closely intertwined with the history of Berlin.

On 13 November, Dr. Christine Heidemann will take us on a private tour through Mammen’s living and working spaces.

With thanks to Berlin Museum and to Heike-Karin Föll, who first told us about the studio in the car on our way back from the Hannah-Höch-Haus.

13 November, 15:00–16:30
Tour in German
Limited to 10 participants
€10 reduced admission
RSVP via mail@grotto.berlin

Kurfürstendamm 29 (Seitenflügel)
10719 Berlin
ring at „Mammen“