Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on February 9th, 1932 and is the Painter. At the age of 92, Gerhard Richter biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Gerhard Richter (born 9 February 1932) is a German experimental artist.
Richter has made abstract, realistic, photographs, and glass pieces.
He is widely regarded as one of the best contemporary German artists, and several of his exhibits have sold at auction for the first time.
Personal life
Richter was born in Dresden, Saxony, and grew up in Reichenau (now Bogatynia, Poland), and Waltersdorf (Zittauer Gebirge), in the Upper Lusatian countryside, where his father worked as a village teacher. Hildegard Schönfelder, Gerhard's mother, gave birth to him at the age of 25. Ernst Alfred Schönfelder, Hildegard's father, was once regarded as a gifted pianist at one time. After starting the family business of brewing and eventually going bankrupt, Ernst moved the family to Dresden. Hildegard began as a bookhändler in Dresden, and in doing so, she discovered a passion for literature and music. Horst Richter, Gerhard Richter's father, was a mathematics and physics student at Dresden's Technische Hochschule. In 1931, the two were married.
Horst found a position in Reichenau after struggling to hold a position in the new National Socialist education system. Gisela, Gerhard's younger sister, was born in 1936. Due to Reichenau's position in the countryside, Horst and Hildegard were able to remain mainly apolitical. Horst, a teacher, was eventually forced to join the National Socialist Party. He never became a ardent supporter of Nazism, and was not obliged to attend party rallies. Gerhard was conscripted into the Deutsche Jungvolk in 1942, but by the time of the war, he was still too young to be a full member of the Nazi Youth. Hildegard's family was relocated to Waltersdorf in 1943, and she was eventually required to sell her piano. In the Nazi euthanasia program, two brothers of Hildegard died as soldiers in the war and a sister, who was schizophrenic, was starving to death.
Richter quit school after tenth grade and apprenticed as an advertising and stage-set painter, before attending the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. He completed vocational high school in Zittau in 1948, and he served as an apprentice with a sign painter and as a painter. His request for study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts was rejected as "too bourgeois." In 1951, he began attending the Academy. Karl von Appen, Heinz Lohmar, and Will Grohmann were among his instructors.
In 1957, Richter married Marianne Eufinger, who gave birth to his first child. In 1982, he married Isa Genzken, the sculptor. When Richter and his third wife, Sabine Moritz, were married in 1995, they had two sons and a daughter.
He created a wall painting (Communion with Picasso, 1955) for the refectory of his Academy of Arts in the early days of his career. Lifefreude (Joy of life) was the subject of another mural on the German Hygiene Museum, which was awarded a diploma. It was designed to produce a "similar" appearance to wallpaper or tapestry.
Richter served as a master trainee in the academy from 1957 to 1961 and received commissions for the then-ethical state of East Germany. During this period, he worked intensively on murals such as Arbeitserkampf (Workers' Struggle) and oil paintings (e.g. portraits of Angelica Domröse, the East German actress, and of Richter's first wife Ema), on various self-portraits and a panorama of Dresden with the neutral name Stadtbild (Townscape, 1956).
Richter and his wife Marianne escaped from East to West Germany two months before the Berlin Wall was constructed in 1961. Both his wall paintings in the Academy of Arts and the Hygiene Museum were then painted over for ideological reasons. Two "windows" of the wall painting Joy of Life (1956), which were later covered up when it was decided to restore the museum to its original 1930 state were revealed in the stairway of the German Hygiene Museum.
Richter started to study at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Otto Götz, Werner Hilsing, HA Schult, Kuno Gonschior, Konrad Lueg, and Gotthard Graubner. He used the term Kapitalistische Realism (capitalistic Realism) as an anti-style of art, borrowing the pictorial shorthand of advertising with Polke and Konrad Fischer (pseudonym Lueg). This article also referred to the realist style of art known as Socialist Realism, then Soviet Union art doctrine, but it also touched on the consumer-driven art doctrine of western capitalism.
Richter taught at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design as a visiting professor, and he returned to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1971, where he worked as a professor for more than 15 years.
Richter moved from Düsseldorf to Cologne in 1983, where he now lives and works today. In 1996, he moved to Thiess Marwede's studio. Richter was ranked number 220 of Germany's richest 1,001 individuals and families by the monthly business publication Manager Magazin in 2017.