Günter A. Richter

Günter A. Richter (born March 26, 1927 in Berlin ; † August 22, 2014 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German art dealer, author, editor and publisher.

Life and works

Richter worked for the Berliner Zeitung from 1945 and from 1946 for the Ulenspiegel magazine . In 1960 he founded an advertising agency and became the managing partner of this advertising agency in Stuttgart . He started building an art collection with works on paper. In 1972 the Kunstkabinett was founded in Stuttgart. There, the processing of the artist's estate of GBR van Hoboken (1893–1971), the first publication on the missing Berlin painter and graphic artist and the organization of four solo exhibitions took place. The estate of Jeanne Mammen and Ludwig Kainer was also processed .

In 1973 he founded Edition GA Richter in Stuttgart as a publisher for signed original graphics by international artists, which has been based in Rottach-Egern since 1983. In the 1970s and 1980s, the unpublished graphic work by Christian Schad was processed and edited in collaboration with the artist. The edition includes hand press prints from important workshops on selected hand-made paper and hand-made Japanese paper - single sheets, portfolios, cassettes, bibliophile editions and portfolios of the Schadographs. In the edition, Richter worked with well-known art historians and authors.

Richter had been close friends with Christian Schad since 1974. He was instrumental in its German “rediscovery” and made the first major retrospectives of Schads possible in 1980 in the Staatliche Kunsthalle Berlin and the second in 1997 in the Kunsthaus Zürich with subsequent stations in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus Munich and the Kunsthalle Henri and Eske Nannen in Emden. There were also forty solo exhibitions in municipal galleries by his wife Marie-Luise Richter. At Art Basel in 1976 and 1977 he took part each with a one-man show by Christian Schad, as well as a one-man show at the Intern. Düsseldorf Art Market 1976. At the same time, the Christian Schad archive was set up . This came to Miesbach in 2017 , where it is now open to the public.

Günter A. Richter died in Rottach-Egern in 2014, where he had lived and worked with his wife since 1983.

Works

• GBR van Hoboken. The discovery of an estate and the discovery of a missing expressionist. Stuttgart 1973, exhibition catalog
• Jeanne Mammen . Stuttgart 1974, exhibition catalog
• Christian Schad - Drawings and Legends 1918–1977. With biography and exhibition directory. Rottach-Egern 1990. ISBN 3-923265-05-0
• Christian Schad - Prints and Schadographies 1913–1981. With biography, exhibition directory and bibliography . Rottach-Egern 1997 and 2001. ISBN 3-923265-08-5
• Christian Schad monograph. The first comprehensive monograph on the artist's work and life (Vol. 1). With introductory texts and 120 legends. Supplemented by a biography, bibliography and a directory of the solo and themed exhibitions. Rottach-Egern 2002. ISBN 3-923265-09-3
• Christian Schad. Texts, materials and documents (Vol. 2), Ed. Günter A. Richter. With extended biography, register for vol. 1 and vol. 2. Authors, among others: Christian Schad, Günter A. Richter, Elisabeth Bronfen, Lothar Klünner, Anja Eichler, Max Osborn, Wieland Schmied, Giovanni Testori. Rottach-Egern 2004. ISBN 3-923265-11-5

Editions

• Oedipiad or worries of a committed person . A highlight in the graphic work of Schad. Portfolio with a series of 7 sign. Etchings in 1967 and a text by Christian Schads. Edition of 36 folders. Stuttgart 1975
• Homage to Dada. Christian Schad's greeting on Dada's 60th birthday. The idea of ​​unlimited freedom. Portfolio with 10 sign. Schadographien (photograms) selected by the artist and the etching Dada 1916–1976. Edition of 90 portfolios. Stuttgart 1976
• Orbis sensualium pictus . The only cross-section through the oeuvre 1915–1975. Cassette with 18 sign. graphic work in different techniques. Edition of 38 cassettes. Stuttgart 1976
• Schadiana . 3 sign. Main sheets from the graphic oeuvre. Edition of 40 folders. Stuttgart 1978
• Gaspard de la nuit . Portfolio with 20 sign. Schadographien (photograms) for the prose poems Aloysius Bertrand and 1 sign. Etching Scarbo, Er und Ich. Enclosed is the text book of prose poems translated by Christian Schads. Bibliophile luxury print. Edition of 40 portfolios. Stuttgart 1980
• Ten studies on Aloysius Bertrand . Portfolio with 10 sign. Schadographien (photograms) to the prose poems Aloysius Bertrand as variations. Edition of 20 portfolios. Stuttgart 1978
• Viola d'amore . A small collection of early Italian poems with 5 signs. Etchings as loose supplements. Edition of 100 folders. Stuttgart 1980
• Edition of further 25 single sheets outside of the portfolio. Stuttgart 1976 to 1981

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice , accessed on March 10, 2018.