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 next to fantasy. RML says of himself: “I find it difficult to decide what it is about art that I like the most. For me, art is like a huge treasure chest where, by rummaging though, I discover endless new and exciting things. And the last thing I find is always the most exciting – at least until the next discovery…”

 Paintings

Drawings

Pictures from the Province

The “Pictures from the Province,” emerged when Latzke briefly worked as an art teacher in his hometown and painted these pictures out of boredom in class, while students were working on their assignments. Originally he intended to make it as a tribute to his hometown and sell it as a small series in a local gallery.  Unfortunately, the whole thing was a failure.  The inhabitants of Euskirchen, ten years before Jurassic Park, were unfamiliar with the strange beings that Latzke populated their city with, and were not pleased by the title Latzke gave the series, which implied that they were “provincial”.

Travel Sketches

Chess Game