Daniel Richter (artist)

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Daniel Richter
Born (1962-12-18) December 18, 1962 (age 59)
Eutin, Germany
NationalityGerman
Alma materHochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Known forpainting, sculpture
Spouse(s)Angela Richter (divorced)
Websitedaniel-richter.com

Daniel Richter (born 1962)[1] is a German artist.[2] He is based in Berlin, and was previously been active in Hamburg.[3][4] He is known for large-scale oil paintings.

Life and work[]

Daniel Richter was born in 1962 in Eutin, Germany.[5][6] Richter attended Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg[7] from 1991–1995.[citation needed] Between 1992–1996 he studied with , one of the protagonists, along with Martin Kippenberger, of the revival of expressive trends in painting during the 1980s, and worked as assistant to Albert Oehlen.[8][6]

Between 2004 and 2006 he served as Professor for Painting at the Universität der Künste, Berlin.[citation needed] Since 2006, he has been teaching at Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna.[citation needed]

Richter's early work was abstract and colorful, described as, "psychedelic – somewhere between graffiti and intricate ornamentation".[9] Since 2002, he has painted large-scale scenes filled with figures, often inspired by reproductions from newspapers or history books.[10]

He was previously married to theatre director Angela Richter, together they have a son.[11] In 2019, he founded the publishing Company PAMPAM Publishing with his partner, Viennese photographer Hanna Putz.[3]

Art by Richter can be found in various public museum collections, including of the Museum of Modern Art,[2] the Denver Art Museum,[7] the National Gallery of Canada,[5] the Centre Pompidou, the Boros Collection in Berlin, and elsewhere.

Exhibitions[]

He has also shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Museum Morsbroich in Germany, Victoria Miro Gallery in London and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery[12] in Vancouver. In 2006 he collaborated with fellow artist Jonathan Meese on the exhibition Die Peitsche der Erinnerung. A major survey of the work opened in 2007 at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg and traveled to the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; and the Denver Art Museum, Colorado, US (2009).

Stage design[]

Working for the Salzburg Festival, Richter created the stage design for two stages: for Bluebeard's Castle (2008) and for Lulu (2010). In 2010, Richter designed a series of stage sets for the Salzburg Opera's production of Lulu in conjunction with his solo museum exhibition at the Rupertinum Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria.

Awards[]

  • 1998 Otto-Dix-Award, Gera
  • 2001 Award for Young Art, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
  • 2002 Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  • 2009 Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Hamburg, Germany

References[]

  1. ^ "Daniel Richter Online". www.artcyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  2. ^ a b "Daniel Richter". The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  3. ^ a b "Hanna Putz und Daniel Richter: Das Künstlerpaar im VOGUE-Gespräch". Vogue Germany (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  4. ^ "Daniel Richter". The Slade School of Fine Art. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  5. ^ a b "Daniel Richter". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  6. ^ a b "Daniel Richter". Ocula.com. 2021-02-08. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  7. ^ a b "D.P. II, 2007-08". Denver Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  8. ^ Daniel Richter Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris/Salzburg.
  9. ^ Kaiser, Phillip (2006). "Daniel Richter". kunstmuseumbasel.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  10. ^ "Daniel Richter". Contemporary Art Curator Magazine. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  11. ^ ""Flimm ist Hermès" - DER SPIEGEL 8/2010". www.spiegel.de. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  12. ^ http://www.belkin.ubc.ca/past/DanielRichter Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

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