Dieter Ruckhaberle

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Dieter Ruckhaberle (born July 20, 1938 in Stuttgart ; † May 10, 2018 in Berlin ) was a German painter and museum director. From 1977 to 1993 he was a founding member and director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin . He was also a co-founder of the New Berlin Art Association (NBK) and the New Society for Fine Arts (nGbK) as well as a co-founder of the IG Medien . Ruckhaberle shaped the Berlin art landscape with his cultural-political activities and exhibitions. The Dieter-Ruckhaberle-Förderpreis, which is intended to commemorate the artistic legacy of Ruckhaberle, has existed since 2019, an initiative of the Künstlerhof Frohnau and the Kunstamt Berlin-Reinickendorf.

Life

Ruckhaberle studied painting and graphics with Manfred Henninger at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart from 1958 . From 1962 he continued his studies with Max Kaus at the Berlin University of the Arts . As the founder of the Free Gallery in 1963 on Kurfürstenstrasse (Berlin-Tiergarten) , he exhibited artists such as Horst Antes and Georg Baselitz . In 1964 he received the award of the German Association of Critics. In 1968 Ruckhaberle organized an alternative exhibition of politically active art during the 4th documenta . In 1969 he was a founding member of the New Berlin Art Association (NBK) and the New Society for Fine Arts (nGbK) .

He co-founded the IG Medien , the Kulturwerk- und Bildungswerk-GmbH of the Professional Association of Visual Artists Berlin , the printing workshop in the Künstlerhaus Bethanien , the sculpture workshop of the BBK, the Berlin Cultural Council and the Federal Cultural Council. From 1973 Ruckhaberle belonged to the first elected federal board of the newly founded Federal Association of Visual Artists (BBK) as an assessor. As head of the Kreuzberg Art Office, Ruckhaberle took part in the rescue of the Martin Gropius Building , which was being considered to be demolished due to the destruction in World War II .

From 1977 to 1993 Ruckhaberle was director of the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin in the Bikini-Haus , organized exhibitions by Christian Schad (1980), Kurt Mühlenhaupt (1981), Klaus Vogelgesang (1982), Karlheinz Biederbick and Christa Biederbick (1982), Gernot Bubenik (1985 ), Hans Jürgen Diehl (1985), Jacobo Borges (1987), Peter Sorge (1987), Ulrich Baehr (1988), Hans Baluschek (1991) and Heike Ruschmeyer (1993) and was the editor of numerous exhibition catalogs.

Then he was head of the Künstlerhof Buch for two years. Ruckhaberle was involved as a director of artist workshops in São Paulo , Rio de Janeiro , Maceió and João Pessoa . As an artistic and scientific employee of the Museum Education Service in Berlin, he worked a. a. until 2003 together with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC).

Throughout his life, Dieter Ruckhaberle was an advocate for artists who was not only interested in their art, but also in their social recognition and living conditions. In 1998 he founded and ran the Künstlerhof in Berlin-Frohnau, where he lived and where he increasingly reflected on his origins, painting. Ruckhaberle died on May 10, 2018 of complications from cancer. He was married to Gisela Ruckhaberle, née Ulmann. The marriage produced a daughter.

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From 1962 onwards he created large-format picture cycles, portraits and landscapes, although Ruckhaberle never exclusively focused on representational or abstract painting in his art. Typical works are the triptych In memoriam Karl Hofer (1965, private collection), Schlafende (1987, private collection) and blue layers of paint from 2015. He maintained studios in the Künstlerhof Frohnau, in Bondorf near Herrenberg and in João Pessoa, where he lived in Brazil . Ruckhaberle's work was shown in permanent exhibitions in the Schöneberg Town Hall (1993–2003) and at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (1995–2003). In February 2019, a first retrospective of his work curated by Heike Ruschmeyer was opened at the Reinickendorf Art Office.

Work documentation (selection)

Working in public collections

Fonts (selection)

  • Why the “Anti-Documenta” does not take place. Documented as an example of repression in the cultural field . Self-published, Kassel 1968.
  • Fascism. Renzo Vespignani . Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1976.
  • (Editor), Weimar Republic . Published by the Kreuzberg Art Office and the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Cologne. Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1977.
  • Theory & Practice . Frölich & Kaufmann, Berlin 1982, ISBN 978-3-88725-101-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Ruckhaberle's obituary notice , accessed on June 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Dieter-Ruckhaberle Prize • Künstlerhof Frohnau. Retrieved March 15, 2019 (American English).
  3. ^ Gerhard Pfennig: Obituary. Website of the BBK Berlin; accessed on June 11, 2018
  4. ↑ Christiane Meixner: Article. In: Potsdam Latest News ; accessed on June 11, 2018
  5. ↑ Dieter Ruckhaberle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1994 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Dieter Ruckhaberle on the page of the Künstlerhof Frohnau , accessed on June 11, 2018
  7. ↑ Press release on the death of Dieter Ruckhaberle on Berlin.de; accessed on June 11, 2018
  8. ↑ Ruckhaberle. Website of the Reinickendorf Museum; accessed on March 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Ruckhaberle, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and museum director
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2018
Place of death Berlin