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. ==Collections==