Rudolf Draheim

  • 1941 born in Dembno/West Prussia
  • 1956 – 1959 Apprenticeship as carpenter in Bodenwerder/Weser
  • 1974 – 1975 Studies in Physics and Chemistry, University of Hamburg
  • 1975 – 1983 Studied Religious Studies, German and Theatre Studies, Free University of Berlin
  • 1979 Co-founder of the Medusa publishing house, Berlin
  • 1981 Started painting
  • 1984 Co-founder of Galerie Nepala, Berlin
  • 1990 Lectureship at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
  • 1996 Honorary lecturer for colour theory at the ZAW, Potsdam
  • 1997 Admitted to the art collection of the German Bundestag
  • 1999 City studio, Adjuntament/Cultura Sóller, Mallorca
  • 2000 Scholarship of the Käthe Dorsch Foundation
  • 2002 Project “UKUZOBA” in Cape Town, South Africa, and in Berlin
  • 2003 Picture installation in the lounge of the FDP parliamentary group of the Berlin House of Representatives
  • 2006 Münchhausen Museum/Bodenwerder
    Exhibition at Schöneberg Town Hall/Berlin
  • 2008 First exhibition at Galerie Fetzer
  • 2014 Appointment as advisor at the Faculty of Art of the University UESTC in Chengdu, PR China
  • 2016 Exhibition Spiegelungen – Prometheus, Gallery Kunst und Kontor, Potsdam
    The country house in Hohe, Lower Saxony, becomes studio
  • 2018 Cycle Reflections – Prometheus is completed with the painting Return
  • 2019 Beginning of the series Cosmic Pictures
  • 2020 Installation “Hope” in the Kemnade Monastery Church