Karl Richter (artist)

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Karl Richter (born April 13, 1927 in Zwickau , † May 6, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German painter , artist and Max Pechstein Prize winner .

Life

Karl Richter, born in Zwickau in 1927, came from a merchant family and attended the Zwickau secondary school until 1943. In the same year drafted as an air force helper in the German armed forces, he had to do service in Brandenburg until the end of the war . In 1947 he began to study at the University of Fine Arts in Berlin (nine semesters), where Max Pechstein also worked as a professor . He also encouraged his work to take part in the Max Pechstein Competition in Zwickau, of which he was the winner in 1948.

In 1954 he took part in a collective exhibition of artists from Zwickau in the Zwickau City Museum , in the same year he went to Salzburg to see Oskar Kokoschka and took part in the International Summer Academy there until 1955 . In the same year he was able to start working as a lecturer at the Volkshochschule Berlin-Reinickendorf . A year later he was able to organize a two-month exhibition of his works in the Berlin district. In 1957 his drawings and watercolors were shown again in a solo exhibition in the Zwickau Municipal Museum. The fifties brought him exhibitions and recognition, but hardly any financial success to secure his family. The sensitive artist, who lives in poor conditions in Berlin-Schulzendorf , probably couldn't stand the pressure between art and financial success and committed suicide in 1959 .

His short career and early death led to his work being quickly forgotten after the 1960s. Only a donation from Munich's Johannes Gerber , Richter's long-time friend, of twelve of his works to the Städtisches Museum Zwickau, which was able to replenish its small inventory of just seven works, brought Richter's awareness back to his home in Saxony . In 2010, thanks to the work of his daughters, parts of his work could then be shown in a six-month separate exhibition including a work and exhibition catalog.

Create

Karl Richter's works concentrated on still lifes of landscapes and flowers in the further development of an expressive realism , as it was also formative for Max Pechstein in his late creative period. Further suggestions came from Kokoschka's School of Seeing , which he attended in Salzburg.

Appreciations

In 1948, the only 21-year-old Karl Richter won the Max Pechstein Prize in Zwickau with his submitted work from among 17 competitors due to:

"... his colored pencil drawings and watercolors ... His work shows strong talent, diligent study and individual expression."

- From the jury's statement

Exhibitions

  • April 25 - June 6, 1954: Participant in an exhibition of artists from Zwickau in the Zwickau Municipal Museum
  • March / April 1956: Exhibition in Berlin-Reinickendorf
  • April / May 1957: Exhibition in the graphics cabinet of the Zwickau Municipal Museum
  • 1960: In Memoriam , sales and memorial exhibition in the art gallery of the Berlin Hilton Colonnade
  • April 11 - October 31, 2010: Karl Richter (1927–1959). A Pechstein student , exhibition in the Zwickau art collections

literature

  • Petra Lewey: Karl Richter: A Pechstein Student , Kunstsammlungen Zwickau, Zwickau 2010, ISBN 978-3-933282-34-7 . 16 pages

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pulsschlag , Official Gazette of the City of Zwickau of April 7, 2010, No. 7, 21st year; accessed on September 18, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, artist, award winner
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH May 6, 1959
Place of death Berlin