Hans Theo Richter - Artist Info

About Hans Theo Richter

  • Biography

    German artist Hans Theo Richter was born in 1902.

    Richter's intense drawings drew early attention. In 1938 he was awarded the First Prize of the International Graphic Biennale in Chicago.

    Richter taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden since 1947.

    "The master student of Otto Dix refused his entire life always to be used as a representative of the GDR by the communist authorities. Among the thousands of his drawings, diagrams and sketches can be found not a single sheet, in which he in the ideology or even propaganda the State party had made concessions" (Hildegard and Hans Theo Richter Foundation).

    Hans Theo Richter passed away in 1969.

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