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Gerhard Richter
1932Born contain Dresden / Germany
1951-1956Staatliche Kunsthochschule Metropolis, Student be beaten Heinz Lohmar
1961-1964Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Scholar of K.O. Götz
1967Hochschule für Bildende Künste flat Hamburg, Appointment professor
1971-1994Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Professorship
1978Nova Scotia College of Refund in Halifax, Visiting professor
1988Städelschule, Frankfort am Most important, Visiting professor
2007Cologne, 1 citizen
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Individual exhibitions (Selection)
2020The Met Architect, New York: Gerhard Richter. Painting Subsequently All.
2018Museum Barberini: Gerhard Richter.
Gerhard Richter, Queensland Art Room, Brisbane, Australia
Gerhard Richter: Über Malen – Frühe Bilder, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
2017
Gerhard Richter: Neue Bilder, Museum Ludwig, Perfume, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Gerhard Richter: A Survey, Národní galerie v Praze (National Gallery), Prag, Czech Commonwealth, 26 Apr 2017 – 03 Sept 2017
Gerhard Richter: Neue Bilder, Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Metropolis, Dresden, Germany
Gerhard Richter: Über Malen – Frühe Bilder, Kunstmuseum Metropolis, Bonn, Germany
2016Gerhard Rich
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Introduction
Gerhard Richter, a renowned German artist, is considered one of the most significant contemporary painters in the country. Initially trained in a realistic style, Richter later developed an appreciation for the more sophisticated work of his European and American contemporaries.
In addition to his abstract and photorealistic paintings, Richter is also skilled in photography and glass art.
Early Years
Gerhard Richter, the first child of Hildegard and Horst Richter, was born on February 9, 1932, in Dresden. Gerhard's mother owned a bookstore and played the piano, while his father was a secondary school teacher. Four years later, his sister was born, and they lived in a typical middle-class home.
When his father was offered a teaching job in Reichenau, which is now known as Bogatynia, Poland, in 1935, the Richter family relocated. The family was able to escape the impending war, during which Horst Richter was drafted into the army. In the end, he was taken prisoner of war by the Americans and liberated in 1946.
His father had served in the Second World War as a Nazi soldier, so the family moved again, this time to Waltersdorf, where they endured difficult times. The young Gerhard had experienced personal loss as well
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1932: 9 February: Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden to Hildegard Richter, a bookseller, and Horst Richter, a school teacher.
1933: 30 January: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor.
1936: the Richter family moves to Reichenau, a town close to Dresden, today known as Bogatynia in Poland. Richter's sister Gisela is born.
1939: 1 September: the German invasion of Poland begins; Horst is drafted in to the military and sent to the Eastern Front.
1942: Richter joins the Pimpfe, an organisation that prepares children to join the Hitler Youth.
1943: Hildegard and the children move to rural Waltersdorf to evade the growing dangers of the Second World War. Horst is transferred to the Western Front where he is captured by the Allies and detained as prisoner of war.
1944: Richter's uncle Rudi is killed in the war; he will become the subject of the photo painting Uncle Rudi [CR: 85] in 1965.
1945: Richter's aunt Marianne dies. She is killed as part of the Nazi eugenics programme, and Richter will make a photo painting of her and himself as a baby, Aunt Marianne [CR: 87], in 1965.
February: the allied aerial bombings leave Dresden in ruins.
8 May: the Second World War officially comes to an end.
December: Richter receives a simple plate camera as a Christmas gift from h