Heinrich Richter (painter)

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Heinrich Richter (born May 15, 1920 in Inowrocław , Poland as Henryk Richter ; † June 8, 2007 ) was a contemporary German painter and graphic artist.

Life

In the last days of the war in 1945, Richter fled to Berlin after losing his right arm; therefore he trained himself to paint with his left hand. 1948–1955 he took up studies in Berlin at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste with professors Karl Hofer and Hans Orlowski , which he completed with a master class diploma. In between he lived with the painter Jochen Senger for a few months in Paris as part of a French state scholarship in 1953, after which he worked in Spain. During this period he also married his wife Mila, with whom he has two sons. In 1963 Richter had his first meeting with Günter Grass . In the three following years he worked on the illustrations for Grass' " Die Blechtrommel ", which was published in 1968 by Luchterhand-Verlag (Berlin / Munich).

In the period from 1965 to 1970 he was a frequent guest for longer stays with Theodor Ahrenberg , a naturalized Swiss art collector and patron, with whose family a close friendship developed. In Ahrenberg's studio in Chexbres on Lake Geneva , Richter created numerous works that were subsequently shown as solo exhibitions in renowned Swiss and Swedish galleries and in Swiss museums. In 1968 he met the art historian and first director of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Werner Haftmann , who made it possible for him to have a comprehensive solo exhibition in his new building that same year.

In 1970 he moved to a studio on Montparnasse in Paris , where he lived and worked until 1972. During this time he made the acquaintance of Iris Clert , one of the most prominent European gallery owners. He then settled in Seignelay ( Yonne / Burgundy ), but also lived temporarily in Cannes in the south of France . Since 1991 Richter lived and worked in Berlin again, where he died on June 8, 2007.

Heinrich Richter was a member of the German Association of Artists . He had numerous solo exhibitions and participations in exhibitions in Germany, France, Sweden, USA and Japan.

Awards / honors (selection)

Exhibitions (selection)

Others

Not to be confused with the painter Heinrich Richter-Berlin (1884–1981) of the Novembergruppe .

literature

  • Heinrich Richter: Illustrations for the “Tin Drum” by Günter Grass, drawings for “Les nuef muses” (the girls from Chexbres). Exhibition cat. March 14 to April 13, 1969. Revised and edited. Design by Karl-Heinz Hering. Art Association for the Rhineland and Westphalia and Municipal Art Hall, Düsseldorf 1969.
  • Heinrich Richter: Embers in the embers. Typefaces and drawings for Ovid's "The Art of Love". Eremiten-Presse , Stierstadt 1972. ISBN 3-87365-029-0
  • Retif de la Bretonne: My Father's Life. Translated into German, with an introduction and with notes vers. by Peter Schunck. Ill. With 16 lithographs by Heinrich Richter. Propylaea, Berlin 1972.
  • Heinrich Richter: Original graphics. Art sheets from the Nierendorf Gallery. Vol. 32. Galerie Nierendorf , Berlin 1974.
  • Gabriele Wohmann: Dorothea Wörth. Narrative. With original graphics by Heinrich Richter. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1975.
  • Heinrich Richter: Suite de dessins. Ed. Forces Vives, Paris 1968.
  • Marie Luise Kaschnitz: Singing about human life. Poems. With drawing. by Heinrich Richter. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1982. ISBN 3-87365-177-7
  • Annemarie Zornack : The long-legged cicada. Poems. With original graphics by Heinrich Richter. Eremiten-Presse, Düsseldorf 1985. ISBN 3-87365-208-0
  • Annemarie Verweyen: Heinrich Richter's sensual muses - his book artistic work. In: Illustration 63. Magazine for book illustration. Memmingen 29.1992, pp. 89-95. ISSN  0019-2457

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the German Association of Artists since it was founded in 1903 / Richter, Heinrich ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 16, 2015)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  2. ↑ openpr.de: Press release of the exhibition organizers (accessed on February 22, 2016)

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personal data
SURNAME Judge, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Henryk (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Inowrocław , Poland
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2007
Place of death Berlin