Daniel Richter (born 1962) [1] is a German artist. [2] He is based in Berlin, and was previously active in Hamburg. [3] [4] He is known for large-scale oil paintings.

Daniel Richter is one of the foremost German artists of his generation, whose practice has evolved over time to encompass notable stylistic turns. Richter’s paintings synthesize art history, mass media, politics, sex, and contemporary culture into ever-changing pictorial worlds.

Daniel Richter is a German artist known for his large-scale paintings inspired by mass media and contemporary culture as seen in his painting Lonely Old Slogan (2006). View Daniel Richter’s 646 artworks on artnet.

2012年1月25日 · The German artist Daniel Richter first came to prominence in the 1990s when he transitioned into fine art from the world of music, where he began his career designing posters and record sleeves for bands.

Daniel Richter’s work subverts the genre of epic historical painting. Often working from media images, his large-scale paintings reconstitute current events as timeless fables, spinning the anxiety of contemporary zeitgeist into overwhelming tableaux of allegorical fantasy.

2024年2月15日 · “I find artworks, especially paintings, most interesting when they seek to convey something to the viewer that is not entirely translatable through language, or even reason,” German artist Daniel Richter says.

2022年11月3日 · Artist Daniel Richter cut his teeth designing music posters and album covers in the antifascist, squatter punk scene of Hamburg in the 1980s and ‘90s. Now based in Berlin, the spirit of rebellion is wielded by the knife blade of his paintbrush in works that cross violently across the threshold between abstraction and figuration.