Hans Theo Richter
curriculum vitae
| 1902 | born on the 7th of August in Rochlitz |
| 1903 | death of the father |
| 1907 | relocation with mother and sister to Niederlößnitz (Radebeul) |
| 1918 | graduation from secondary school |
| 1918-1923 | study of painting and graphic art at the Dresdner Kunstgewerbeakademie under Paul Hermann, Arno Drescher, Georg Erler, Joseph Goller and Max Frey |
| 1922 | acquaintance with the painter Georg Richter-Lößnitz, in whose workshop he prints etchings and lithographs starting in 1922 |
| 1923 | residence in Lübeck at his uncle's house, the painter Leopold Thieme, in whose studio he creates further etchings |
| 1926 | furnishing a room in Dresden as a studio |
| 1926-1931 | studied at the Dresden Academy of Art under Richard Müller, from 1928 master student of Otto Dix |
| 1929 | study trips to Paris |
| artistic acquaintance and friendship with Karl Kröner and Paul Wilhelm, takes over Willy Kriegel's studio in Dresden | |
| 1930 | marriage with Gisela Hergesell, furnishing the studio as an apartment |
| purchase of the first works by the Schlesisches Museum in Wroclaw | |
| 1932 | freelance work as an artist |
| Jubilee Prize of the City of Dresden, resulting in a residency in Berlin and in Nidden on the Curonian Spit, membership in the Deutscher Künstlerbund | |
| 1933 | Rome Prize of the Deutscher Künstlerbund, the associated stay in Rome was prevented by the German National Socialist authorities |
| Otto Dix portrays the Richter couple | |
| 1935 | rent of an additional studio next to Albert Mann and Johannes Beutner |
| summer stay in Niehagen | |
| first encounter with Gerhard Marcks | |
| 1937 | visited the widow of Franz Marc |
| 1938 | promotion through the collector Dr. Kobes in Jonsdorf |
| First prize for graphics at the Internationale Graphik-Ausstellung in Chicago/USA | |
| 1940 | exemption from military service due to thyroid disease and cardiac insufficiency |
further exhibitions
| 1941 | Galerie Kühl, Dresden |
| 1946 | Schlossberg-Museum, Chemnitz |
| 1947 | Galerie Henning, Halle/Saale |
| 1948 | Galerie Franz, Berlin |
| 1957 | Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig |
| 1958 | Städtisches Museum, Zwickau |
| Kunstkabinett Hanna Bekker vom Rath, Frankfurt/Main | |
| Städtische Kunstsammlungen Bonn (with Josef Hegenbarth and Karl Oskar Blase) | |
| 1959 | Staatliche Museen Heidecksburg, Rudolstadt |
| 1960 | Kunstverein Kassel (with Wolfgang von Websky) |
| Pfälzische Landesgewerbeanstalt, Kaiserslautern | |
| Kunstverein Mannheim | |
| 1961 | Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Duisburg |
| 1962 | Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden |
| Deutsche Akademie der Künste, Berlin | |
| 1963 | Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München |
| 1964 | Kunsthaus Hamburg |
| 1965 | Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Helsinki/Finnland |
| Kunstkabinett, Berlin/Ost | |
| Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw/Poland | |
| 1968 | Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz |
| 1969 | Stadtmuseum, Greifswald |
| 1974 | Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden |
| 1976 | Kunsthalle Rostock |
| 1979 | Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi |
| 1981 | Städtische Galerie, Albstadt |
| Zentrum für Kunstausstellungen der DDR, Berlin/East »Hans Theo Richter und seine Schüler« (participation) | |
| 1982 | Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig |
| Stadtmuseum Jena | |
| 1991 | Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin |
| 1993 | Otto-Dix-Haus, Gaienhofen-Hemmenhofen |
| Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, München | |
| 1999/2000 | Galerie Pels-Leusden, Villa Grisebach, Berlin |
| 2011 | Galerie Döbele, Dresden |
| 2013 | Kunstausstellung Kühl, Dresden (participation) |
| 2024 | Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden (with Otto Dix, Josef Hegenbarth, Elke Hopfe and Max Uhlig) |
