Daniel Richter: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

His work deals with reality, which he translates into the language of painting.

Daniel Richter (1962) is regarded as one of the most important painters of his generation. He lives in Berlin and Vienna. Over the past three decades, and with an untiring creative energy and a great delight in experimentation, he has created a comprehensive oeuvre amounting to more than 1,000 works. Daniel Richter’s vibrant and multifaceted stream of paintings draws both from existing pictorial worlds and from inner visions – it is subjective and at the same time collective. By emotionally charging clichés from popular culture, the media, and stylistic elements from art history, Richter carries on the expressionistic gesture of immediacy in a conceptual way and once again questions the possibilities of painting, above and beyond stylistic definitions.