Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac

Daniel Richter

(German, born 1962)
Daniel Richter is a German artist known for his large-scale paintings inspired by mass media and contemporary culture as seen in his painting Lonely Old Slogan (2006). Working in the tradition of Expressionism, Richter’s practice could be seen as following in the footsteps of Edvard Munch and James Ensor. “At least for me, when you do something you have not mastered yet, there is a long process of not really being aware of yourself and by the moment you finish this process you can regard the pictures as a product of your own thinking,” he said of painting. “And when you look at the works and try to look at it as someone else, not as yourself, you actually learn about the way you see the world.” Born on December...