Gerenot Richter

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Gerenot Richter (born December 5, 1926 in Dresden , † January 5, 1991 in Berlin ) was a German graphic artist and university professor.

life and work

Gerenot Richter attended primary and secondary school in Dresden from 1934 to 1944. From 1934 to 1945 he was an air force helper and soldier on the Western Front. After returning from captivity in Belgium and England, he trained as a teacher and worked as a new teacher in Dresden from 1948 to 1949 . From 1949 to 1953 he studied art education and geography at the Technical University of Dresden , the University of Leipzig and the Humboldt University in Berlin.

In 1952 he married Ingeborg Grampp, with whom he stayed until his death and with whom he had two children. In 1953 Richter became a research assistant for methodology in art education and artistic practice at the Humboldt University. In 1955 he received a teaching position for painting and graphics at the Institute for Art Education at Humboldt University, where he received his doctorate in 1957. From 1962 to 1965 he did an external study at the University of Fine and Applied Arts Berlin-Weißensee with Heinrich Burkhardt and Fritz Dähn , which he graduated with a diploma. In 1966 Richter became a lecturer in the theory and practice of artistic design at the Institute for Art Education at Humboldt University. In 1971 he was appointed associate professor and from 1979 until his retirement in 1989 he was a professor teaching painting and graphics at the Humboldt University.

Richter was co-editor of the original graphic edition series of the newspaper " Junge Welt ". In 1988 he got cancer.

He was a master of etching . The catalog raisonné of prints from 1964–1989, which he himself compiled, contains 50 flat prints and 304 intaglio prints (a further 43 lithographs were not included in the catalog raisonné). His work also includes a large number of drawings, some of which come close to the quality of his best gravure prints, as well as a considerable number of watercolors, pastels and paintings. However, painting played a very subordinate role in his most fertile years as a graphic artist.

After 1983 there are no more human portraits by Richter. In 1989 he made his last print, Herbstlicht , which he dedicated to his wife.

Richter's grave is located in the Pankow III cemetery in Berlin-Pankow.

reception

“Richter was one of those artists who consciously and with good reason preserve artistic traditions and keep their values ​​alive. Keeping alive meant creating something new with Dürer's engravings. Richter combined the old master's style with the modern principle of making access to the message more difficult, so that the viewer cannot be satisfied with a fleeting glance. "

- Peter H. Feist : Opening speech for the exhibition “Gerenot Richter - Parables” on September 2, 2006

“As a nature observer, Richter created an empathic art, inspired by humanism and an intellectual artistry, whose pictures also unobtrusively resonate the pedagogy of a witty teacher. With euphoria and pathos he 'embraces' the universe in a synthesis of poetry and intellect, in which fantasy and objectivity interpenetrate. This artist is a poet. "

- Volkhard Böhm : UM: PRINT

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1989: Dresden, Clubgalerie Brücke
  • 1990: Erfurt, preacher monastery
  • 1991: Berlin, Gallery Sophienstrasse
  • 1996: Berlin, workshop gallery Studio Fine Arts
  • 1997: Meiningen, State Museums Schloss Elisabethenburg
  • 2002: Senftenberg, gallery in Senftenberg Castle
  • 2005: Hoyerswerda, city ​​museum in the castle
  • 2006: Joachimsthal, Grimnitz Community ("Parables")
  • 2006: Senftenberg, gallery at the castle
  • 2011: Berlin, Galerie Helle Panke ("Graphics from three decades")
  • 2016: Berlin, Gallery 100 ("am Hohen Ufer" - "Sandpipers and Sea Wonders")
  • 2016: Berlin, Humboldt University ("Spreeathen" - "Cityscapes")
  • 2016: Fürstenwalde, Domgalerie ("Went across the field this morning" - homage and parable)
  • 2016: Gransee-Dannenwalde , church on the way ("After the storm" - From the face of the trees)
  • 2017: Berlin, Graphics Studio Gallery ("Peaceful Landscapes, The Miniatures")
  • 2017: Templin , gallery in the New Town Hall ("Terra Mater" & "Herbstlicht")

Works in museums and public collections

Source: Gerenot Richter website.

Literature (selection)

  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , p. 762.
  • Gisold Lammel: Master of the copperplate engraving - Gerenot Richter. Edition Schwarz Weiß, Spröda 1997, ISBN 3-00-001461-6 .
  • Volkhard Böhm: Gerenot Richter - a master of the parable. In: Graphic Art. 52/1999, Edition Curt Visel, Memmingen.
  • Peter H. Feist : Gleanings. Essays on fine arts and art history. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2016.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography. (PDF) Ekkehard Richter, accessed on August 13, 2020 . Available under biography.
  2. ↑ work. Ekkehard Richter, accessed August 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Gerenot Richter. W. Hartwig, accessed on August 13, 2020 (photo of the grave).
  4. ↑ Volkhard Böhm in his review of the Richter work show, which was published in 2016 in the web-based magazine for print graphics and visual culture "UM: DRUCK" in Vienna.
  5. ↑ exhibitions. Ekkehard Richter, accessed August 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Gerenot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 1991
Place of death Berlin