Thomas J. Richter

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Thomas J. Richter (born June 15, 1955 in East Berlin ) is a German painter and graphic artist . He lives in Berlin .

Life

Richter grew up dealing with the so-called Berlin School of Painting and developed his own path early on. From 1976 to 1978 he studied history and art education at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . He then began studying painting and graphics at the Berlin-Weißensee University of the Arts, which he graduated in 1983. His teachers included u. a. Dietrich Nosky. Since then he has lived and worked as a painter and graphic artist in Berlin-Friedrichshagen . His grandfather Gottfried Richter (1904–1968) was a painter, as was his father, Gottfried Uwe Richter (1930–1977). Important milestones in his work are: 1986/1987 the portrait commission of the magistrate of Berlin, 1987 participation in the artistic design of the underground station Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, 1988 the purchase of a painting by the Staatliche Kunstsammlung Cottbus. In 1988/89, in collaboration with the sculptor Martin Wilke, the monumental sculpture "Ship for the Rescue of the Innocence of Art" was created, which has a total height of 5.70 m and was given to the Pankow district office as a permanent loan and located in front of the Fröbelstrasse official building in Berlin .

In 1989 the National Gallery of the State Museums in Berlin bought a painting. From 1989 to 1991 Richter was a master class student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR (since 1990: Academy of the Arts in Berlin) with Nuria Quevedo. In 1997 the Ernst Schroeder Society brokered the donation of a painting to the Neubrandenburg art collections. Richter's work includes exhibitions at home and abroad as well as political engagement in the form of newspaper articles, panel contributions and applied arts, etc. a. for the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference . Since 2007 he has been the artistic director of the jW shop gallery of the young world newspaper . With his extensive erotic oeuvre, which includes prints, drawings and paintings, Richter occupies a conspicuous outsider position in the contemporary art scene.

criticism

“Having grown up in a family of artists, Richter was not only familiar with the paintings of his grandfather Gottfried Richter. Works by the painter Ernst Schroeder, who was a friend of his father, and bronzes by Gustav Seitz were also part of everyday life. All of this opened one's eyes - to Henri Rousseau and Werner Heldt , Giorgio de Chirico and Arnold Böcklin , to Carlo Carrà , Ottone Rosai and Niko Pirosmanaschwili . From the abundance of art-historical attitudes addressed thereby, it is not possible to draw our own picture.
Richter's search for 'his picture' shows a continuous development without caesuras and abrupt changes of direction. ”
(Jörg Makarinus in: Thomas J. Richter. Pictures. Berlin 1998, p. 8)

Exhibitions (selection)

"Ship to save the innocence of art"
1988/89, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Solo exhibitions
  • 1987: Galerie Mitte in Berlin
  • 1990: Galerie Junge Kunst in Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1991: Arts Center Galway (Ireland)
  • 1991/1992: State Museum Schwerin
  • 1992: Alter Markt Gallery in Berlin
  • 1993: Broekhuis in Enschede (Netherlands)
  • 1994: Kurt Tucholsky Memorial in Rheinsberg Castle
  • 1995: Gallery at the Prater in Berlin
  • 1997: Cafe del Arte in Münster
  • 1998: Gallery in the tower in Berlin
  • 1998: Kunsthaus Borkam in Trier
  • 1999: Gallery at the Alter Markt in Rostock
  • 2004: XIII. International Book Fair in Havana / Cuba
  • 2005: Galerie Pohl in Berlin
  • 2005: Alte Schule gallery in Berlin
  • 2006: GBM gallery in Berlin
  • 2010: Galerie Arbeiterfotografie in Cologne
  • 2011: West Pomeranian artist house in Heinrichsruh
  • 2011: Galerie Pohl in Berlin (with Stefan Reichmann)
Group exhibitions
  • 1984: Young GDR artists in Berlin
  • 1987: Tempéraments in Paris
  • 1987: Leonhardi Museum in Dresden
  • 1988: North-West in Plüschow Castle in Mecklenburg
  • 1989: Contours in Berlin
  • 1989: Diomede project in PS 1 in New York (with Martin Wilke, Martin Colden, Jürgen Köhler)
  • 1990: Participation in the Duchess Diane Sculpture Park in Althausen
  • 1994: Three of them in studio bildende Kunst baumschulenweg in Berlin (with Lutz Kommallein and Astrid Mosch)
  • 2003: All judges in Galerie Pohl in Berlin
  • 2005: Art landscape: garden in the Alte Schule gallery, Adlershof cultural center, Berlin
  • 2008: Self-portraits from 30 years in Galerie Mitte in Berlin
  • 2011: Ten Berlin painters in the monastery gallery in Zehdenick

Fonts

  • with Christian Geissler : shadow writing written shadow. and puppet theater. In: Die Horen . No. 216, 2004, pp. 142-156.
  • Peter Hacks : Perfect world. Love poems. Edited by Heike Friauf. With graphics by Thomas J. Richter. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2007.
  • Artist book two songs. by Peter Hacks. Andante hand press, Berlin 2007.
  • Artist book question. Woodcuts based on a poem by Peter Hacks. Andante hand press, Berlin 2008.
  • Eros and Politics. Against the alienation of humans. Edited by Heike Friauf. With texts by Leo Kofler , Peter Hacks, Werner Seppmann and pictures and graphics by Thomas J. Richter. Pahl-Rugenstein, Bonn 2008.
  • The first dialectical-melancholy art book on GDR history. Artist book by Thomas J. Richter. Berlin 2009.

literature

  • Jörg Makarinus (Ed.): Thomas J. Richter. Photos. With a text by Karl Mickel . edition refugium, Berlin 1998.
  • Stefan Amzoll: We have fallen behind by at least a hundred years. Interview. In: Utopia creative. Issue 57, 1995.
  • Stefan Amzoll: Eroticism takes place on the left. Interview. In: Utopia creative. Issue 97/98, 1998, pp. 53-73.
  • Simone Tippach-Schneider : Interview. In: Food, Art. An exhibition with pictures from the Beeskow art archive. Catalog. Beeskow 2007.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Richter, Thomas J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin