Paul Richter (painter)

Paul Richter (* 1874 ; † September 28, 1972 ) was a German painter . He is also known as an illustrator of identification books.

Paul Richter was employed by the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory from 1898 , initially as a painter and drawing teacher, and later as the head of flower painting. He designed his own decorations early on, including a well-known Art Nouveau " maple pattern " in 1904 .

But even in his retirement he remained active as a painter and from 1945 illustrated a number of natural history books by Neumann-Neudamm-Verlag , including a five-volume work on the flora and fauna of the Central European forest from 1950 to 1970 without interruption. The fact that these identification books written by Gottfried Amann became bestsellers and have remained so to this day is largely due to Richter's detailed and true-to-life color tables.

Paul Richter died on September 28, 1972 at the age of 98.

Book illustrations

• Herbert Weymar: Book of grasses and rushes. Development history and determination, location and use of the wild and cultivated grasses and rush plants in Germany . Neumann Verlag, Radebeul and Berlin 1953 - with more than 222 Richter's illustrations
• Gottfried Amann: Trees and bushes of the forest. Pocket picture book of needles and leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds, twigs in the winter state and seedlings of the most notable trees and bushes of the Central European forest with text part about their construction and life , Melsungen 1954 - with 500 colored and 140 black and white templates by Richter ( ISBN 3 -7888-0235-9 )
• Eva-Maria Bursche: Aquatic Plants. Small botany of aquatic plants , Radebeul and Berlin 1954
• Herbert Weymar: Book of ferns, bear moss and horsetail. Development history and purpose, location and importance of the fern plants growing wild in Germany , Radebeul and Berlin 1955 - with 66 illustrations by Richter
• Heinrich Eggebrecht: Weeds in the field. A determination book , Radebeul 1957 - plant drawings by Richter, seed drawings by Kurt Schulze
• Gottfried Amann: Kerfe of the forest. Pocket picture book of the most noteworthy beetles, butterflies and other kerf of the Central European forest, their stages of development and feeding pictures with text part about construction and life , Melsungen 1960 - with 600 colored and 100 black-and-white templates from Richter ( ISBN 3-7888-0760-1 )
• Gottfried Amann: mushrooms of the forest. Pocket picture book of the most noteworthy mushrooms, lichens, mosses, horsetail, moss, ferns, grasses, monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous herbs of the Central European forest with text part about construction and life , (partial edition of soil plants of the forest ), Radebeul and Berlin 1962 - with 70 colored and 27 Black and white templates of Richter ( ISBN 3-7888-0763-6 )
• Waldtraut Schubert: Alpenblumen , Melsungen, Basel and Vienna 1969 - originals of the Richter color plates
• Waldtraut Schubert: meadow flowers , Melsungen, Basel and Vienna 1969 - color plates by Richter
• Gottfried Amann: Soil plants of the forest. Pocket picture book of the most noteworthy mushrooms, lichens, mosses, ferns, grasses and herbs of the Central European forest. With text part about their construction and life , Melsungen 1970 - with 630 color and 150 black and white templates for the picture part by Richter ( ISBN 3-7888-0761-X )
• Gottfried Amann: birds of the forest. Paperback book of the most noteworthy birds of the Central European forest, their eggs, nests and feathers. With text part about construction and life , Melsungen 1976 - with 557 color and 50 black and white templates for the picture part by Paul Richter and Rolf Witschel ( ISBN 3-7888-0499-8 )