Luisa Richter

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Luisa Richter, 2012

Luisa Richter (born June 30, 1928 in Besigheim ; † October 29, 2015 in Caracas ) was a German painter . She lived in Caracas, Venezuela .

Life

Luisa Richter came as Luise Kaelble as the second child of the district architect Albert Kaelble and his wife Gertrud geb. Uncle to the world. In Stuttgart she attended the Merz School; she studied first at the Free Art School, then at the State Academy of Fine Arts, where she became a master student of Willi Baumeister , who introduced her to the abstract style. She also attended philosophy lectures with Kurt Leonhard . From this a lasting friendship developed.

After marrying the engineer Hans-Joachim Richter in 1955, she moved to Venezuela.

On October 29, 2015, she died at the age of 87 in her adopted home Caracas.

Act

In 1959 Luisa Richter exhibited for the first time alone at the State Art Museum in Caracas. From 1969 to 1987 she taught at the College of Design Fundación Instituto de Diseño Neumann in Caracas. After she represented Venezuela at the Biennale di Venezia in 1978 , a larger audience in Europe became aware of her. Her work was created both in Europe and in South America and spans the gap between cultures.

Solo exhibitions

  • 1959 Caracas State Art Museum, Venezuela
  • 1960 Buchholz Gallery, Bogotà, Colombia
  • 1962 El Muro Gallery, Caracas
  • 1964 Caracas State Art Museum
  • 1965 Caracas State Art Museum
  • 1967 Gallery XXII, Caracas
  • 1968 Gallery XXII, Caracas
  • 1969 Caracas State Art Museum; 1969 Buchholz Gallery, Bogotà
  • 1970 Mendoza Gallery, Caracas; Caracas State Art Museum
  • 1972 Mendoza Gallery, Caracas
  • 1973 Monte Avila Gallery, Bogotà; Goethe Institute, Caracas
  • 1974 Caracas State Art Museum; Angel Boscán Gallery, Caracas; Arte Contacto Gallery, Caracas; Central University of Venezuela, Caracas
  • 1975 Mendoza Gallery, Caracas
  • 1976 Caracas State Art Museum
  • 1977 Cruz del Sur Gallery, Caracas; Gallery Euro-Americana, Caracas
  • 1978 Venice Biennale, Venezuela Pavilion; Durban Gallery, Madrid
  • 1979 Galerie Loehr, Frankfurt / Main; Galerie Lutz, Stuttgart; El Callejón Gallery, Bogotà
  • 1980 Stuttgart City Hall; Serra Gallery, Caracas
  • 1981 Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas; Galerie Ruchti, Cologne; Galerie Rolando Oliver Rugeles, Mérida, Venezuela
  • 1982 Durban Gallery, Caracas; Viva México Gallery, Caracas
  • 1983 Siete-Siete Gallery, Caracas
  • 1984 Felix Gallery, Caracas
  • 1985 Venezuelan-Colombian Cultural Center, Bogotà; Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay; Gallery Espacios Cálidos, Caracas
  • 1986 Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas; San Martin Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 1987 Arte Hoy Gallery, Caracas
  • 1988 Durban Gallery, Caracas
  • 1989 Peter Fischinger Gallery, Stuttgart; Gala Gallery, Valencia, Venezuela
  • 1990 Astrid Paredes Gallery, Caracas
  • 1991 Durban Gallery, Caracas
  • 1992 Peter Fischinger Gallery, Stuttgart
  • 1992 Asociación Humboldt, Goethe-Institut Caracas
  • 1993 Galerie Félix, Caracas; Durban Gallery, Caracas; Asociaciòn Humboldt, Goethe Institute Caracas
  • 1994 TAGA, Caracas; University of Mérida, Venezuela; Mendoza Gallery, Caracas; Plaza de la Marina Gallery, Madrid, Spain
  • 1995 Harthan Gallery, Stuttgart; Sala Cultural de Colombia, Caracas
  • 1996 Art Association Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen, Germany
  • 1997 Fundación Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; Barsikow Gallery, Berlin; Sindelfingen City Gallery , Germany; Simón Bolivar University Library, Caracas
  • 1998 Ibero-American Institute Berlin; Old Town Hall Potsdam; Deutsche Welle, Cologne; Barsikow Gallery, Berlin
  • 1999 Simón Bolivar University Library, Caracas; Medici Gallery, Caracas; Ibero-American Institute Berlin; Ibero-American House of Culture, Cologne
  • 2000 Simón Bolivar University Library, Caracas; Braulio Salazar Gallery, University of Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela; Barsikow Gallery, Berlin
  • 2001 Medicci Gallery, Caracas; Cruz-Diez Museum of Graphics and Design, Caracas
  • 2006 Municipal Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen
  • 2008 Besigheim town hall
  • 2014 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Awards

  • 1952 Württemberg Art Prize for Young People
  • 1959 Premio José Loreto Arismendi, Caracas
  • 1960 Art Prize for Drawing and Graphics from the Simón Bolivar Central University, Caracas
  • 1963 Emil Friedmann Prize, Caracas
  • 1966 Art Prize for Drawing and Graphics from the Simón Bolivar Central University, Caracas
  • 1967 National Prize for Drawing and Graphics, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • 1982 National Prize for Fine Arts, Caracas
  • 1993 Premio Andrés Bello, Bogotà, Colombia
  • 2000 Premio Mondalidad Experimental, II Graphic Biennial Museum Cruz-Diez, Caracas
  • 2001 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2010 Honorary doctorate from the Simón Bolivar Caracas Central University

Fonts

  • Diary sheets - life review, in magazine for cultural exchange (38th year, 1st quarter of 1988) Ed. Institute for Foreign Relations, Stuttgart, pp. 75–79.
  • Painting, collage, gouache, pastel, exhibition catalog at Kunstverein Springhornhof, Neuenkirchen 1996. With texts by Ruth Falazik, Kurt Leonhard and Henning Schroeder-Albers.
  • Approaches and delimitations, texts, including about Luisa Richter, 1996 ed. by Asociaciòn Humboldt Caracas, author Henning Schroedter-Albers
  • Pictures 1959-97, exhibition catalog of the Sindelfingen Gallery, 1997. With texts by Hilmar Hoffmann, Otto Pannewitz and Kurt Leonhard.
  • "Connection from here and there in the present", in: Journal for Cultural Exchange (49th year, 2/99), Ed. Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart, pp. 94–98.
  • Exhibition catalog Galeria Medicci 2009 online: http://medicci.com/pdf/catalogos/luisarichter-memorias.pdf

literature

  • Luisa Richter, Caracas 1992. With texts by Federico Beyerthal, Juan Calzadilla, Christiane Dimitriades, Roberto Guevara, Kut Leonhard, Rafael Pineda, Luisa Richter, Thomas Richter and Marta Traba.
  • Ruth Händler, "Closer to life and to death", interview with Luisa Richter, in: Journal for Cultural Exchange (46th year, 3/97), publisher. Institute for Foreign Relations Stuttgart, pp. 19–21.
  • HD Elschnig, T. Münzer, "In the footsteps of Luisa Richter", Interview with Luisa Richter, in: Room K (No. 28, 12/2004), p. 2.
  • "Luisa Richter. Wandering between two worlds", exhibition catalog Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen, 2006. With texts by Isabell Schenk-Weininger, Cynthia Thumm and Luisa Richter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Luisa Richter: Best-known Besigheimerin in South America In: Bietigheimer Zeitung , accessed on June 10, 2017