Heinrich Richter-Berlin
Heinrich Richter-Berlin , actually Heinrich C. Richter, (born April 23, 1884 in Berlin ; † January 26, 1981 there ) was a German expressionist painter and co-founder of the New Secession in Berlin. Richter also worked intensively as a film architect from 1916 to 1945 .
Life
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Heinrich Richter studied at the Berlin University of the Arts in 1902/1903 . He was excluded from further studies because he had exhibited in the Berlin Secession without permission . Around 1907/1908 he studied at the Lothar von Kunowski art school in Berlin. After Kunowski left Berlin in 1909 to teach at the Düsseldorf School of Applied Arts , Richter founded a painting school at the same address and taught the L. v. System there . Kunowski . In 1910 Heinrich Richter was a co-founder of the Neue Secession artist group, which had split off from the Berlin Secession and existed until 1914. In 1918 he was next to the painters Max Pechstein , Georg Tappert, César Klein , Moriz Melzer , who like himself were members of the New Secession, co-founders of the November Group . He designed numerous woodcuts for the expressionist magazine Der Sturm and took part in Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion . In 1919 he was a co-founder of the Art Workers' Council , the first chairman was Walter Gropius .
From 1916 to 1945 Richter intensively designed buildings for film productions; in some cases he oversaw up to 26 films per year. For Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau he created the films The Walk into the Night and The Janus Head , both from 1920. He also worked with the film directors Hermann Kosterlitz , Alexander Korda , Erich Engel , Fedor Ozep , Kurt Bernhardt , Richard Oswald and Michael Kertesz . He designed sets for the actress Rosa Valetti . In the years 1933 to 1939 he mainly designed the sets for short films, including the majority of the works by Piel Jutzi and Jürgen von Altens .
Richter's work was defamed as “ degenerate ” in 1933 and shown in the 1937 exhibition Degenerate Art in Munich. After the end of the war , from 1945 onwards he created theater decorations for the Theater am Nollendorfplatz , wrote plays for children, directed and wrote texts for magazines. He worked as a painter well into old age.
Heinrich Richter-Berlin is located in the Stubenrauchstrasse municipal cemetery in Berlin-Friedenau . His grave was kept as an honorary grave of the State of Berlin from 1987 to 2009 (see list of honorary graves in Berlin / Former honorary graves ).
Works
- 1910: Landscape near Worpswede , oil on canvas, private property
- 1912: The Gatekeeper , woodcut, from The Tempest , Vol. 3, No. 111, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 1914: Untitled (Houses) , woodcut, from Die Aktion , Vol. 4, No. 23, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 1916: In front of the mosque , watercolor, private collection Fig
- 1925: Tuscan landscape , oil on canvas, private property
- 1943: View near Rome , oil on canvas, private property
- 1979: Lovers II , oil on canvas, private property Fig.
- 1979: Meeting in Knossos , oil on canvas, private property Fig.
- 1980: Hug , oil on canvas, private property
Filmography
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literature
- Liebermann's opponents - the New Secession in Berlin and Expressionism. Wienand, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-86832-046-6 (exhibition catalog, with contributions by Anke Daemgen and Uta Kuhl).
- Review by Jörg Deuter: Liebermann's opponents. The New Secession and Expressionism . In: Journal for Art History. Vol. 15, 2011. pp. 119-127.
- lex-art.de: Heinrich Richter-Berlin. ( PDF file ).
- Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 523.
Web links
- Heinrich Richter-Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Examples of works on www.artfact.com
- Art calendar: Heinrich Richter-Berlin in: Die Zeit , May 25, 1979
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Quoted from lex-art.de
- ^ Otto Freundlich: Writings. , Cologne, DuMont, 1982.
- ↑ Painting schools . In: Herwarth Walden (ed.): The storm . Weekly for culture and the arts. tape 1 , no. 4 . Der Sturm, Berlin-Halensee March 24, 2010, p. 31 , left column, center ( princeton.edu [accessed September 21, 2019]).
- ^ Arbeitsrat für Kunst ( Memento from February 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), www.dada-companion.com, accessed on July 15, 2007
- ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .
- ↑ Quoted from lex-art.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Richter-Berlin, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richter, Heinrich C. (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter, set designer and co-founder of the New Secession in Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 1981 |
| Place of death | Berlin |