Hermann Theodor Richter

Hermann Theodor Richter (born March 2, 1894 in Oberpfannenstiel in the Ore Mountains (today: Lauter-Bernsbach ); † June 13, 1943 in Dresden ) was a German sculptor .

Life

Hermann Theodor Richter was born on March 2, 1894 in Oberpfannenstiel as the youngest of five children of the white goods worker Friedrich Hermann Richter and his wife Henriette Caroline Emma. Little is known about the childhood and youth of Hermann Theodor Richter, who was one of the most famous artists in Dresden around 1930. He is said to have gone to sea before he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden from 1922 to 1927 as a student of Karl Albiker . Hermann Theodor Richter worked as a freelance sculptor and had his studio on Kaitzer Strasse in the south of the city.

Richter was a member of the Dresden Secession in 1932 and was involved in its working committee together with Erich Fraaß , Otto Griebel and Bernhard Kretzschmar . In 1933 Hermann Theodor Richter took over the management of the interest cartel of the Saxon artist associations . Together with this and the Dresden Secession in 1932, Richter protested against the installation of a National Socialist cultural policy in Dresden. After an order for the Stadtbank in Aue in 1938, Richter was drafted into service in the Wehrmacht . He broke up because of his military experience and committed suicide on June 13, 1943. After his untimely death and the destruction of his works and his family in the bombing raid on Dresden on 13/14. In February 1945 the sculptor was forgotten.

plant

Hermann Theodor Richter inherited his preference for the female nude and portrait bust from his teacher. Nonetheless, he found his own, individual style of representation that was bound by classical design. He preferred the small format for his sculptures. Only a few works have survived, for example in the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and in the Städtische Galerie Dresden . The only evidence of his work in public space is a group of figures on the former building of the Stadtbank Aue.

Participation in exhibitions

• 1932: Dresden Secession 1932, 1st exhibition , September 1–15. October 1932, Dresden
• 1933: Joint exhibition 3 artist groups Dresden 1933 , August 17th – 15th. October 1933, Dresden
• 1934: Saxon Art Exhibition 1934 , June 16–19. August 1934, Dresden
• 1946: General German Art Exhibition , Dresden
• 1980: Art on the move. Dresden 1918-1933 , September 30, 1980-25. February 1981, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

literature

• Karin Müller-Kelwing: The Dresden Secession 1932 - A group of artists in the field of tension between art and politics . Hildesheim (and others) 2010, also: Dissertation, TU Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-487-14397-2 , pp. 191, 377.
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Ed.): Art on the move. Dresden 1918-1933 , Dresden 1980, p. 314.