Rita Kuhn

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Rita Kuhn (born October 9, 1916 in Arnstein ; † June 9, 2011 in Würzburg ) was a German painter.

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Rita Kuhn was born as the eighth child of her parents in Arnstein, Lower Franconia. Her professional goal was painting from an early age, when she received a watercolor painting box from her aunt at the age of five . Of course, such an idea was not acceptable to her modest parents. After graduating from high school in 1935 with the English Misses in Würzburg, she completed an apprenticeship as a tailor, graduated with the grade "very good", but ended this unpopular activity immediately, around 1938 a position as an employee in the accounting department of the "chemical and drug wholesalers" Ebert + Jacobi to compete. In the time of the Second World War she was obliged to do her job, so that she was spared the intelligence service at the front, for which she was scheduled by the employment office.

After graduating from high school, Kuhn took lessons in freehand drawing, nude and oil painting at the “Polytechnic Association” in Würzburg. She attended these evening courses for ten years until the end of the war. After she survived the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 , she applied to the well-known painter Gertraud Rostosky at the "New World" , whom she accepted as one of her last students, towards the end of 1946 . Rostosky, however, in the opinion of her new pupil, had no pedagogical skills, so that in addition to teaching painting and drawing, she also acted as a secretary who dictated the “Chronicle of the New World” to Rostosky. She also made copies of numerous manuscripts and prepared for their publication.

The first exhibition of his own works took place in 1947 in the Ochsenfurt town hall. Kuhn also served as a model for Rostosky. A portrait that was created found space in her later studio as well as a portrait of her teacher made by Kuhn.

As early as 1947, Kuhn found her future partner in the New World, which still served as a meeting place for artists and writers until Rostosky's death in 1959, albeit not to the same extent as it had in the 1920s . It was Ludwig Röder , who also took drawing lessons there and who introduced Kuhn to astrology in the 1970s . This should influence her for a lifetime and also be reflected in her artistic work as "cosmic pictures" and luminous reverse glass paintings. The friendship with the poet, writer and astrologer Röder lasted until his death in 1993.

The works that found their way to collectors across national borders and into public buildings were created in the artist's studio in Würzburg's Franziskanergasse. She had her own exhibition in 2000 in the former Otto Richter Hall in Würzburg. Most recently she was also involved in the 2010/11 exhibition “Würzburg and the Art of the 1950s” held in the Kulturspeicher .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brigitte Kleinlauth: Gertraud Rostosky. "Courage to self, art as a life's work." An artist's life , page 113, Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-87717-804-9

literature

  • Rita Kuhn "Zeitaspekte", JG Bläschke Verlag, A-9143 St. Michael, 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Kuhn, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnstein (Lower Franconia)
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 2011
Place of death Wurzburg