About the person

born 1961 in Eutin
lives and works in Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna

From 1991 to 1995 Daniel Richter studied at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg with Werner Büttner and worked as an assistant to Albert Oehlen. From 2004 to 2006 he was professor of painting at University of the Arts Berlin and in autumn 2006 took over the professorship for "Expanded Pictorial Space" at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2009 Daniel Richter was awarded with the art price Finkenwerder, one of the highest-paying awards in Europe.

“Daniel Richter is considered to be one of the most important artists of his generation. Continuously questioning the possibilities of painting is his method. He gives the reason himself, “I do not believe in technique. Painting is a form of thinking and you have to make the things you need for such a form of thinking obedient to you.” The continuous development of an ever new, changing pictorial language is a way to work against his own routine. Around 2000 he started to juxtapose the abstract-ornamental paintings of the mid-1990s with large-scale figurative images of social and political realities and in this way led history painting into the present. By going back to the current mass media image production, but without illustrating or commenting on the events, his broken Mannerism points to the decline of social utopias.”

Katharina Dohm; exhibition announcement Schirn Kunsthalle: Daniel Richter: Hello, I Love You, 9.09.2015 – 17.01.2016 http://www.schirn.de/DANIEL_RICHTER.html