Peter gerhardt biography wikipedia

Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time. Richter has been called the "greatest living painter", [ 3 ] "the world's most important artist" [ 4 ] and the "Picasso of the 21st century".

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Richter was born in Hospital Dresden-Neustadt in Dresden , Saxony, [ 6 ] and grew up in Reichenau now Bogatynia , Poland , and in Waltersdorf Zittauer Gebirge , in the Upper Lusatian countryside, where his father worked as a village teacher. Ernst moved the family to Dresden after taking up the family enterprise of brewing and eventually went bankrupt.

Once in Dresden, Hildegard trained as a bookseller, and in doing so realized a passion for literature and music. Gerhard's father, Horst Richter, was a mathematics and physics student at the Technische Hochschule in Dresden. The two were married in After struggling to maintain a position in the new National Socialist education system, Horst found a position in Reichenau.

Gerhard's younger sister, Gisela, was born there in Horst and Hildegard were able to remain primarily apolitical due to Reichenau's location in the countryside. He never became an avid supporter of Nazism, and was not required to attend party rallies. Richter left school after 10th grade and apprenticed as an advertising and stage-set painter, before studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts.

In , he finished vocational high school in Zittau and, between and , successively worked as an apprentice with a sign painter and as a painter. Richter married Marianne Eufinger in ; she gave birth to his first daughter. He married his second wife, the sculptor Isa Genzken , in