{{Short description|German painter and stained glass artist}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2009}} {{Infobox person | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|1938|5|25|df=yes}} | birth_place = Husum, Germany | death_date ={{death date and age|2023|5|13|1938|5|25|df=yes}} | death_place = Leer, Lower Saxony, Germany | education = | occupation = painter and stained glass artist | known_for = }} '''Peter Kuckei''' (25 May 1938 – 13 May 2023<ref name=Nordwest>{{cite web| author=Norbert Hartfil|url=https://www.nwzonline.de/wesermarsch/in-nordenham-aufgewachsener-kuenstler-peter-kuckei-ist-gestorben_a_4,0,837800915.html|title=Der Küste immer ganz nah.|publisher=Nordwest-Zeitung|date=18 May 2023|access-date=19 May 2023|language=de}}</ref>) was a German painter and stained glass artist.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZnLkU_TJ-TcC&q=Peter+Kuckei |title = Who's who in American Art: 2001-2002|isbn = 9780837963020|last1 = Who|first1 = Marquis Who's|date = February 2002}}</ref>
==Biography== Peter Kuckei was born on 25. Mai 1938 in Husum district Nordfriesland, Germany close to the North Sea.
From 1960 to 1961 Peter Kuckei studied at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Bremen, as well as from 1961 to 1963 at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart with Prof. H. Wildemann. Peter Kuckei lectured from 1986 to 1987 at the Staatliche Akamdemie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, Germany. From 1963 to 1993 he lived and worked in Berlin and Butjadingen. In 1993 he opened a studio in San Francisco, California, United States. After ten years he moved to Miami, Florida, where he lived and worked. In 2009 he returned to Germany and lived and worked again in Butjadingen, close on the North Sea coast. He died on 13 May 2023 in Leer, Lower Saxony, which means that he had spent most of his life close to the sea.<ref name="Nordwest" />
==Collections== His work is included in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://art.famsf.org/peter-kuckei/untitled-20011783 |title = Untitled - Peter Kuckei|date = 2016-06-21}}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://www.peterkuckei.com Official web site] * {{Cite news |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=EN&s_site=miami&p_multi=EN&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11216592160D4648&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |title=PETER KUCKEI, MÁS ALLÁ DE LA LÍNEA Y EL COLOR|date=May 28, 2006|pages=6D |work=El Nuevo Herald }}
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