DANIEL RICHTER: PAINTINGS THEN AND NOW

While German painting of the postwar period essentially concerned itself with coming to terms with the past and presenting it in ges tures ranging from the heroic to the ironic, Daniel Richter focuses on positioning himself in the present. Time and again he devises new ways of being modern in a medium that has long been labeled old-fashioned and anachronistic. His pictures constantly challeng e the spectator by their painterly and contextually excessive demands, but they do not lecture on moral issues. In five chapters fea turing mor...[Read more]