Rainer kitchen master

Stumbling stone in front of the house, Sächsische Strasse 63a, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Rainer Maria Küchenmeister (born October 14, 1926 in Ahlen / Westphalia , † May 6, 2010 in Paris ) was a German painter and university professor.

Life

Rainer Küchenmeister is the son of the lathe operator and communist journalist Walter Küchenmeister , who belonged to the "Rote Kapelle" resistance group during the Third Reich and was executed in 1943. In 1928 he moved with his parents to Berlin , where his brother Claus Küchenmeister was born. After attending school, he began training as a decorative painter in 1941. Before that, he had already assisted the painter and sculptor Kurt Schumacher , a friend of his father's, with the design of the entrance hall of the “Neue Post” in Berlin-Schöneberg and, in the process, learned the basic techniques of wall painting.

He also supported his father and his friends in political work, after their arrest he was imprisoned in the Moringen youth concentration camp and in March 1945 still in a Wehrmacht punishment battalion . Meanwhile, his mother died in an air raid on Berlin.

After the liberation he wanted to start studying art and was accepted on a trial basis at the Weißensee Art School , but was relegated there after a short time. In 1946/47, kitchen master attended the Bielefeld master school for German craftsmanship. In the 1950s he lived mainly in West Berlin , but was not recognized there as a painter. In 1964 his works were shown in the painting department at documenta III in Kassel . This was the first time that his pictures received international attention. In 1969 he was appointed professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and he became a full member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts .

Rainer Küchenmeister lived in Normandy and Paris . He died at the age of 83 after a serious illness.

Prices

1961 Prize from the City of Wolfsburg
1961 Biennale des Jeunes, Paris
1965 Prize of the Villa Romana , Florence
1971 Berlin Art Prize

Honors

In front of his last house before the arrest by the Gestapo in the Sächsisches Palais (Sächsische Strasse 63a in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ), a stumbling block was laid on October 13, 2010 by pupils of the Robert Jungk High School , for which the then General Secretary of the International Sachsenhausen Committee Sonja Reichert took over the sponsorship.

literature

Manfred Flügge : “My longing is life.” A story from the German resistance . Documentary novel, Berlin 1998: Structure TB, ISBN 3-7466-1334-5
Gert Rosiejka: The Red Chapel. "Treason" as an anti-fascist resistance. - With an introduction by Heinrich Scheel . Results publisher: Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-925622-16-0

Web links

Commons : Rainer Küchenmeister - Collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Chef de cuisine, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rainer Maria Küchenmeister (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Awls
DATE OF DEATH	May 6, 2010
Place of death	Paris