Daniel Richter

Daniel Richter is one of the best-known artists of his generation, lives in Berlin and teaches at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.

While his paintings were initially colourful and abstract, and his artistic questions were of a purely formal nature, figurative moments began to appear in his works from 2000 onwards, increasingly condensing in the direction of a representational, narrative pictorial motif. They can be read autobiographically, but at the same time they reflect the state of our world, seen from a subjective perspective – full of references to political themes and current events. Richter is inspired by documentary photographs, science fiction films, images from art history and current reports from the media. In collages he mixes contemporary events, history and his own drawings and texts. Found photographs and his own are overlaid with historical sketches, magazine clippings and overpaintings.

Extensive solo exhibitions at e.g. the Kunsthalle Kiel and Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2001); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2005); Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Den Haag (both 2007); in 2014, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt presented a retrospective. Richter's works are featured in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, among others, as well as the Falckenberg Collection in Hamburg.

Daniel Richter (born 1962 in Eutin) lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.