Evelyn Richter
Evelyn Richter (born January 31, 1930 in Bautzen ) is a German photographer .
Life
Evelyn Richter's father owned a sawmill in Lausitz. In order to protect her from the Nazi ideology , her parents sent her to a school run by the Moravian Brethren . After training as a photographer in Dresden with Franz Fiedler and Pan Walther from 1948 to 1951, Evelyn Richter worked as a laboratory assistant at the United Businesses in Dresden and as a photographer at the TU Dresden . In 1953 she began studying photography at the Leipzig School of Graphics and Book Art (HGB) with Johannes Widmann, professor at the Institute for Photography. In 1955 she was de-registered and worked freelance until 1980 (theater photography, advertising).
From 1981 she taught at the HGB in Leipzig, where she held an honorary professorship from 1991 to 2001. From 1990 to 1991 she also held a teaching position for photography at the Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences . In 1992 Evelyn Richter was honored with the Culture Prize of the German Society for Photography and on March 18, 2006 with the Art Prize of the City of Dresden . The Leonhardi Museum in Dresden showed an exhibition in early 2010 on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
The Evelyn Richter Archive has been housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig since 2009. It contains the main work of the photographer, acquired in summer 2009 by the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung. In total, her artistic activity is documented on the basis of over 730 photographs.
Most recently she worked in Neukirch ( Lausitz ) and has been living in a nursing home in Dresden since a stroke.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2010: Eros and Stasi. East German Photography Collection Gabriele Koenig. Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen.
- 2016: Two group exhibitions: Time held. Ursula Arnold , Arno Fischer , Evelyn Richter , Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig and The Teaching. Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter , Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig . Common catalog.
- 2020: Focus Evelyn Richter. Albertinum , Dresden.
Award
In 2020, Evelyn Richter was the first to receive the Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize, awarded every two years by the city of Düsseldorf for a life's work, worth 15,000 euros.
literature
- Anke Scharnhorst: Judge, Evelyn . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
- Evelyn Richter. In: Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon Artists of the GDR. Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 762.
Web links
- Literature by and about Evelyn Richter in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website Evelyn Richter Archive
- Evelyn Richter at Photography Now
- 9 pictures of Richter at Boston University ( Memento from January 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- Ingeborg Ruthe: The track of the Leica. In: Berliner Zeitung September 6, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Into the darkroom! - Portrait of Evelyn Richter in Kreuzer-Leipzig
- ↑ Freddy Langer: The double negator. In: www.faz.net. January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Classic from the early days. SZ-Online, January 18, 2018, accessed on August 14, 2019 . (archived version)
- ↑ Art does not come from artificiality in FAZ from August 1, 2016, page 15.
- ↑ Focus Evelyn Richter. Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, accessed on January 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of April 4, 2020, p. 13.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Judge, Evelyn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bautzen |