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Jagdgesellschaft
Hunting Party 1966 Catalogue Raisonné: 121
Party
1963 Catalogue Raisonné: 2-1

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Early Years

Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden on 9th February 1932, the first child of Horst and Hildegard Richter. A daughter, Gisela, followed four years later. They were in many respects an average middle-class family: Horst worked as a teacher at a secondary school in Dresden and Hildegard was a bookseller who liked to play the piano.1 In an interview with Robert Storr, Richter described his early family life as 'simple, orderly, structured – mother playing the piano and father earning[...]
The Dresden Years

In 1951 Richter returned to his birth-city Dresden to attend the Academy. It was a changed city, having almost been obliterated by the bombing campaigns of the Allied forces in February 1945: 'Some buildings, or parts of buildings, were still intact, especially in Güntzstrasse where I was first and where all the first-year students studied. What I remember vividly is that very often, practically every day, we would walk through rubble to get from one building to the next, from[...]
1961–1964: The Düsseldorf Academy Years

In 1961, Richter and his wife Ema defected to West Germany from the increasingly repressive GDR. They stayed with a friend, Reinhard Graner, in Düsseldorf for the first few weeks. Initially Richter considered moving to Munich, but following advice from Graner chose to settle in Düsseldorf. The city’s Staatliche Kunstakademie [Düsseldorf Art Academy] had a considerable reputation and featured largely in Richter’s final decision. Despite having already studied art at the Dresden[...]

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Chronology

1932: 9 February: Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden to Hildegard Richter, a bookseller, and Horst Richter, a school teacher.

1933: 30 January: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor.

1936: the Richter family moves to Reichenau, a town close to Dresden, today known as Bogatynia in Poland. Richter's sister Gisela is born.

1939: 1 September: the German invasion of Poland begins; Horst is drafted in to the military and sent to the Eastern Front.

1942: Richter joins the Pimpfe, an organisation that[...]

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Leben mit Pop. Ei­ne Re­pro­duk­ti­on des Ka­pi­ta­lis­ti­schen Rea­lis­mus Li­ving wi­th Pop: A Re­pro­duc­tion of Ca­pi­ta­list Rea­lism Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany 21 July 2013 - 29 September 2013
Living with Pop: A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism Living with Pop: A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism Artists Space, New York, USA 08 June 2014 - 17 August 2014

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Title Author Date

In

 The Guardian

Issue

 13 November 2008

Language

 English

Category

 Newspaper Articles
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Exhibitions

 What a swell party this is Searle, Adrian 2008

In

 Monopol. Magazin für Kunst und Leben

Issue

 08 October 2019

ISBN

 1614-5445

Language

 German

Category

 Magazines
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Exhibitions

 partys und Richter-Schau. Metropolitan Museum feiert 2020 Geburtstag dpa 2019

In

 Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Issue

 04 November 2019

Language

 German

Category

 Newspaper Articles
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Exhibitions

 Moskauer Biennale: Glamour-party mit Künstlerblut Holm, Kerstin 2019
Moskauer Biennale: Glamour-Party mit Künstlerblut Holm, Kerstin In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 04 November 2019
Partys und Richter-Schau. Metropolitan Museum feiert 2020 Geburtstag dpa In: Monopol. Magazin für Kunst und Leben 08 October 2019
Gerhard Richter bekommt zum 80. keine Party, aber Blumen In: Die Welt 09 February 2012

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