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Featured Projects
With his mural painting RML has re-established this thousand-year-old art in the modern living environment. His method of combining classic painting techniques with modern ideas has made wall painting an excellent component of contemporary interior design and has inspired a new generation of mural artists. Many of his motifs are considered classics, adopted by ...
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Life
RML did practically everything wrong that an artist can do in modern art. While his professors and classmates pursued performance and action art he painted colourful pictures of grand baroque splendour. When the Zeitgeist demanded blank walls, RML brought light, breadth and atmosphere into the rooms – and became, against all rules of the ...
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Interior Design & Architecture
Unlike other paintings, a mural is made complete by multiple artforms: architecture, interior design, and fine art. This is why RML makes particular efforts to work closely with the architects or interior designers involved in the projects or, in many cases, personally controls the design of the entire room. RML favours historical buildings because he ...
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Paintings & Other Works
From a very young age Rainer Maria Latzke engaged himself in the artistic activities of drawing and painting. He grew up in a household with a distinctively creative focus that facilitated the artistic development of the children. His paintings are a broad sweep of the many different styles of art; classic together with bizarre, narrative ...
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Other Inventions
Dynamic Building Façade For his project of a Museum of Fresco and Mural art he developed the “Dynamic Building Façade” as the perfect shell for this illusionistic art form. Using the new OLED display technology the entire buildings can change its appearance in seconds and can transform facades into dynamically revolving canvasses for every ...
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Frescographie
The Frescography is the only reproduction method which allows the perfect adjustment of the picture composition to any given project site. This makes the Frescography a revolutionary breakthrough in the field of wall painting; it enables the production of wall paintings at a much lower cost and shorter length of time, thus opening this art ...
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Media & Press
International Media featured Rainer Maria Latzke´s work in cover stories, articles and television documentaries. The Herald Tribune magazine dedicated a cover story to him entitled “The Modern Day Michelangelo”. Forbes Magazine consider him the most influential painter of the 90s and the Russian Trade Union of Artists ranks him among the best world-wide artists of ...
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Honors & Awards
Master of Arts in Philology and Philosophy, 1974 Master of Arts in Fine Arts and Art History,1976 Master Student of the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf, 1977 Awarded a patent for the production method of large format images, 1990 Forbes Magazine: “Stars of tomorrow “, elected the most influential person in the field of painting, ...
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Academics & Publications
DTMA Rainer Maria Latzke is Master of the Mural and Decorative Arts Studio of the Beijing De Tao Master Academy http://www.detaoma.com/ SIVA Rainer Maria Latzke is Honorary Professor of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts at the Fudan University http://www.siva.edu.cn/renda/node6813/english/Photo_News/u1a1698908.html Institute of Frescography (IOF) Latzke is founder and director of the ...
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Links
Article about Prof. Rainer Maria Latzke on Wikipedia; English / Chinese Article on China’s largest Wiki-encyclopedia and Search Engine BaikeBaidu