Daniel Richter - Hatje Cantz

An open art book on a white surface displays a large, colorful abstract painting across the right-hand page. The artwork is a chaotic and vibrant mix of red, yellow, blue, and orange, featuring drips, swirls, and energetic brushstrokes. The book's dotted spine is visible on the left.

A high-angle photograph of an open book with white pages and black text, resting on a white surface. The book is open to a two-page spread, with the coil binding visible in the gutter. The left page features the title GRAND THEMES; OR, FIGURATIVE POLITICALITY in bold, capital letters.

An overhead view of a two-page spread in an art book. The pages have a black background and feature a mix of text in English and German, a newspaper clipping, photos of colorful paintings in a gallery, a black-and-white portrait of a man, and a black-and-white photo of a monkey. The page numbers are 198 and 199.

A minimalist book with a white cover and black spine, laid flat on a white surface. The back cover is visible, featuring a blurb about the artist Daniel Richter, an ISBN, a barcode, and the publisher's website at the bottom.

An image divided in two, with a book's table of contents on the left against a white background. The text lists five sections with Roman numerals and titles like Becoming Human and Collective Movement. The right side features a bold graphic of thick, vertical black and white stripes.

A page from a book showing a table of contents under the heading Voices from Offstage. The entries include works by Roberto Ohrt, Cord Riechelmann, Max Hollein, and Verena Dengler, followed by the Index, Colophon, and Closing Credits with their page numbers. To the right are two thick, vertical black bars on a white background.

A wide, expressionistic painting depicting a dense, chaotic crowd of stylized figures. The background is a streaky, fiery red and orange, speckled with white. The figures in the foreground are rendered in vibrant, clashing colors like yellow, pink, and blue, creating a tumultuous and energetic scene.

A wide, abstract expressionist painting of a forest scene. Dark, thick tree trunks stand against a chaotic background of splattered paint in white, green, pink, and orange, creating a vibrant and energetic atmosphere.

A two-page spread from a book. The left page has a column of text with an inset image of a book cover titled Billard um halb Zehn. The right page features a large, dark painting of several figures in colorful hooded jackets huddled together in an orange raft on a black, turbulent sea.

An expressive and colorful abstract painting, Dog Planet from 2002, shows a group of figures in dark, futuristic uniforms and helmets. They stand together in a line, holding poles or weapons. At their feet are several dogs, painted in vibrant, fiery shades of red and orange, contrasting with the darker figures. One dog is on a leash. The style is raw and energetic, with a chaotic, mottled background of yellows and whites.

An art book spread showing two paintings. On the left, a gorilla-like figure holds a white bird on a winding staircase of blue-green stones. On the right, a person in a blue leotard and top hat stands in a forest clearing, surrounded by a large pack of dark dogs, with a white building in the background.

An open art book displays two expressive paintings on adjacent pages. The left painting shows a nude, bearded figure with raised arms against a background of blues and browns with tree-like red lines. The right painting features two translucent, ghostly figures standing in a dark, abstract forest behind stark, white, leafless trees.

A two-page spread from an art book, pages 300 and 301, showing columns of text and a variety of color photographs. The photos include two artists in a studio, several abstract paintings, the cover of a catalogue titled Daniel Richter Huntergrund, a view of a gallery exhibition, and other candid shots of people and art.

A horizontal abstract painting from 2015, titled Endspiel (Endgame), presented within a book. The artwork consists of several large, flat, organically shaped patches of color—including dark green, pink, lime green, and turquoise—layered over a heavily textured, energetic background of white and grey brushstrokes.

A two-page spread from an art book displaying two large, colorful abstract paintings. The painting on the left has a dynamic figure in blue, pink, and yellow against a background split into orange and yellow. The painting on the right shows two yellow figures with energetic red loops of paint against a background split into blue and light green.

Daniel Richter

Paintings Then and Now

€ 74.00

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By (artist): Daniel Richter

Contributions by: Verena Dengler, Max Hollein , Roberto Ohrt , Cord Riechelmann

Edited by: Eva Meyer-Hermann

May 2023, 464 Pages, 400 Photos

Hardcover

258mm x 290mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5088-2

HATJE CANTZ VERLAG
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10629 Berlin
Germany
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| "As a politically thinking person, I am not a morally thinking person."

While German painting of the postwar period mostly concerned itself with coming to terms with the past and presenting it in gestures ranging from the heroic to the ironic, Daniel Richter focuses on positioning himself in the present. Time and again he devises new ways of being "modern" in a medium that has long been labeled old-fashioned. His pictures consistently challenge the spectator through their painterly and contextually excessive demands, but they do not lecture on moral issues. For the first time, Eva Meyer-Hermann traces the chronological development of Richter's oeuvre across more than 200 examples of his work. The turns from abstraction to figuration and back again that until now have been described as abrupt, prove on closer examination to be a logical consequence and a sign of conscious artistic action.

This book is also available in German.

DANIEL RICHTER (*1962, Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein) has been one of the most significant and internationally renowned painters of his generation for more than twenty years. His beginnings in the autonomous left-wing underground and studies with Werner Büttner at the Hochschule für bildenden Künste in Hamburg contributed to his reputation, as has his eloquent public presence.