Marianne Kühn

Marianne Kühn (born November 17, 1914 in Cologne ; † June 13, 2005 there ) was a German politician (SPD) and art collector.

politics

After elementary school, Marianne Kühn trained as a lawyer and notary's assistant. At the age of 15 she was a member of the Red Falcons. On November 1, 1932, she joined the SPD and later fought underground in Belgium against the National Socialists in Germany with her husband Heinz Kühn (1912–1992), whom she married in 1939. After the war she went back to Cologne with her husband and remained politically active. From 1952 to 1973 she was for the SPD for the Dellbrück district in the Cologne city council . Her husband was Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1966 to 1978 .

art

In the last decades after her political career, Marianne Kühn made a name for herself as a naive painter and art patron . In her apartment in Cologne-Dellbrück she had run a gallery since 1979 and collected art.

After her hometown refused to accept her collection of naive art as a donation, Marianne Kühn donated around 650 objects to the Vestisches Museum in Recklinghausen in 2003 .

Marianne Kühn died in 2005 at the age of 90. The couple's grave is located in the Ostfriedhof in Cologne (hall 29).

literature

• Achim Engelberg : Those who have lost fight. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-320-02110-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marianne Kühn celebrates her 88th birthday. ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Press release of the NRW-SPD (accessed July 2011) 
2. ↑ 25 years of the Naive Art Gallery. In: Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung. February 12, 2005 (online)
3. ↑ Kühn tomb. In: knerger.de. Retrieved October 7, 2018 .