Daniel Richter (artist)

Daniel Richter was born in 1962 in Eutin, Germany.[5][6] Richter attended Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg[7] from 1991–1995. Between 1992–1996 he studied with Werner Büttner, one of the protagonists, along with Martin Kippenberger, of the revival of expressive trends in painting during the 1980s, and worked as assistant to Albert Oehlen.[8][6]

Between 2004 and 2006 he served as Professor for Painting at the Universität der Künste, Berlin. Since 2006, he has been teaching at Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna.

Richter's early work was abstract and colorful, described as, "psychedelic – somewhere between graffiti and intricate ornamentation".[9] Since 2002, he has painted large-scale scenes filled with figures, often inspired by reproductions from newspapers or history books.[10]

He was previously married to theatre director Angela Richter, together they have a son.[11] In 2019, he founded the publishing Company PAMPAM Publishing with his partner, Viennese photographer Hanna Putz.[3]

Art by Richter can be found in various public museum collections, including of the Museum of Modern Art,[2] the Denver Art Museum,[7] the National Gallery of Canada,[5] the Centre Pompidou, the Boros Collection in Berlin, and elsewhere.

He has also shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Museum Morsbroich in Germany, Victoria Miro Gallery in London and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery[12] in Vancouver. In 2006 he collaborated with fellow artist Jonathan Meese on the exhibition Die Peitsche der Erinnerung. A major survey of the work opened in 2007 at the Kunsthalle in Hamburg and traveled to the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands; the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Spain; and the Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA (2009).

Working for the Salzburg Festival, Richter created the stage design for two stages: for Bluebeard's Castle (2008) and for Lulu (2010). In 2010, Richter designed a series of stage sets for the Salzburg Opera's production of Lulu in conjunction with his solo museum exhibition at the Rupertinum Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria.

• 1998 Otto-Dix-Award, Gera
• 2001 Award for Young Art, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
• 2002 Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
• 2009 Kunstpreis Finkenwerder, Hamburg, Germany

• El control del azar en Daniel Richter, por Enrique Castaños
• Tal R on Daniel Richter - Daniel Richter on Tal R – Video interview by Louisiana Channel
• Daniel Richter talks about Emil Nolde Video by Louisiana Channel