Rudi Lesser

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Memorial plaque on the house, Solmsstrasse 33, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Rudi Lesser (born July 12, 1902 in Berlin ; † March 1, 1988 there ) was a German watercolor painter , etcher , and lithographer .

Life

From 1919 to 1923 he attended the teaching facility of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, followed by studies at the Berlin Academy with Hans Meid and later in Königsberg (Prussia) with Klaus Richter . 1931 Exhibition in the Gurlitt Gallery. In 1933, after his studio was destroyed by the National Socialists , he emigrated to Scandinavia and other Western European countries. Between 1946 and 1956 he lived in the USA . There he sent exhibitions (e.g. at Lotte Jacobi in New York ), and he was also a lecturer at Howard University in Washington, DC .

In 1956 he returned to Berlin. Here he ended up living in poor conditions in the Kreuzberg district , but in contact with other artists and the Berlin painter-poets such as Günter Bruno Fuchs , Kurt Mühlenhaupt , Nepomuk Ullmann , Peter Blaar and others. a. Lesser produced smaller exhibitions and covers for the Kreuzberger Neue Zeitung .

Rudi Lesser died in Berlin in 1988 at the age of 85. His grave is in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

literature

  • Rolf Jessewitsch, Gerhard Schneider (Ed.): Ostracized - Forgotten - Rediscovered. Art of expressive representationalism from the Gerhard Schneider Collection. Wienand, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-87909-665-1 , p. 454.

Web links

Commons : Rudi Lesser  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Exhibition for Lesser's 100th birthday at galerie-taube.de - Even if this exhibition was held in 2001 for Lesser's 100th birthday, we now know that it was 'only' his 99th birthday! - Rudi Lesser was born on July 12, 1902 in Berlin. - This is what it says (for the first time) in catalog 228 of the Taube Gallery from 2012!

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 244.
personal data
SURNAME Lesser, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German watercolor painter, eraser, lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1988
Place of death Berlin