Jochen Kusber

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Iwona Fankulewska: Jochen Kusber (2008)

Jochen Kusber (born January 6, 1928 in Opole , Upper Silesia , † February 5, 2020 in Rastede ) was a German painter and sculptor.

Life

Kusber lost his mother at the age of four. As the son of a hotelier, he spent his childhood and youth in Brieg , Liegnitz and Neumarkt in Silesia with stops in Neustadt OS , Silberberg and Bad Salzbrunn . He was involved in the young people and in the Hitler Youth . In the German-Soviet war , he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht in captivity . He was able to escape and stayed with relatives in Upper Silesia for two years.

Jochen Kusber: Devil in front of the church

He went to West Germany and found work at the Herzog August Library . After a year he began studying at the Werkkunstschule Braunschweig . He married in 1957 and lived with his wife in Bremen . In the industry, Kusber was the representative for Northern Germany . The couple moved to Rastede in 1967 and opened an art gallery . With his penchant for paleontology , Kusber began exhibiting his fossils and minerals . With the growing response, he founded the art and culture group Rastede , which he headed from 1980 to 1983. He had exhibitions in Frankfurt am Main , Bad Nauheim , Darmstadt , Erbach (Odenwald) , Aschaffenburg , Mühltal and Braunschweig as well as in the moor and fen museum Elisabethfehn . Rastede Kusbers stayed at home even during ten years in Frankfurt am Main.

He was editor of the magazine "Der Spieker". He was a member of Schlaraffia and chairman of the Ammerland Art Trail , an association of art associations in Ammerland .

Fonts

  • Rastede in the past, Rastede today. Pictures at an exhibition . Rastede 1979.

Web links

Commons : Jochen Kusber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kusber: Mourning the master of drawing. NWZ, February 11, 2020, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Jochen Kusber - retrospective . Art and culture district Rastede 2013.
  3. ↑ Claus Stölting: Objective must also be. Nordwest-Zeitung , June 15, 2016, accessed on September 16, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ammerland Art Trail
personal data
SURNAME Kusber, Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kusber, Joachim (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Opole , Upper Silesia