Gerenot Richter (1926-1991) was a master of etching. His work also includes a large number of drawings, watercolors, pastels and paintings.
Gerenot Richter (1926-1991) was a master of etching. His work also includes a large number of drawings, watercolors, pastels and paintings. However, the depth of meaning of allegorical formulations and the technical sophistication make his graphic oeuvre stand out and place Richter in a line of tradition with renowned etchers and engravers since the Renaissance such as Albrecht Dürer, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder and Horst Janssen. Ä. or Horst Janssen. A donation from the estate was the impetus for this exhibition to mark the artist's 100th birthday, with motifs of the Baltic Sea at its center.
Gerenot Richter initially trained as a teacher after the war and worked as a new teacher in Dresden from 1948 to 1949. From 1949 to 1953, he studied art education and geography at the Technische Hochschule Dresden, the University of Leipzig and the Humboldt University in Berlin.
In 1953, Richter became a research assistant for the methodology of art education and artistic practice at Humboldt University. In 1955, he received a teaching position for painting and graphics at the Institute for Art Education at Humboldt University, where he completed his doctorate in 1957. From 1962 to 1965, he studied externally at the Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst Berlin-Weißensee under Heinrich Burkhardt and Fritz Dähn, graduating with a diploma. In 1966 Richter became a lecturer in the theory and practice of artistic design at the Institute for Art Education at Humboldt University. In 1971 he was appointed Associate Professor and from 1979 until his retirement in 1989 he was Professor of Painting and Graphic Art at Humboldt University.
