![]() He befriends Hans Lillig, a mural painter active in Waltersdorf who teaches classes at the local high school.ġ947: Richter attends night school to study painting.ġ948: he receives his trade-school diploma.ġ949: Richter becomes an apprentice at a organization that produces political banners for the GDR government.ħ October: the German Democratic Republic (GDR) is founded.ġ950: starting in February, Richter works as an assistant set painter at the municipal theatre in Zittau for around six months.Īugust: he decides to become a professional artist and applies, unsuccessfully, to the Dresden Art Academy (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden) for the winter semester 1950/51. He enrols in a trade school in Zittau where he learns stenography, typing and bookkeeping. One of his early sketches, from 1946, is a nude figure that he copies from a book. Around the age of 15, Richter draws regularly. Werner Jungmichel, a camera shop owner in Waltersdorf teaches the young Richter how to develop photographs, a skill that will prove useful throughout his career.ġ946: after the war, Horst returns home but as a former member of the National Socialist Party is unable to return to teaching and takes a job as a labourer in a textile mill in Zittau. ![]() ![]() She is killed as part of the Nazi eugenics programme, and Richter will make a photo painting of her and himself as a baby, Aunt Marianne, in 1965.įebruary: the allied aerial bombings leave Dresden in ruins.Ĩ May: the Second World War officially comes to an end.ĭecember: Richter receives a simple plate camera as a Christmas gift from his mother. Horst is transferred to the Western Front where he is captured by the Allies and detained as prisoner of war.ġ944: Richter's uncle Rudi is killed in the war he will become the subject of the photo painting Uncle Rudi in 1965.ġ945: Richter's aunt Marianne dies. Richter's sister Gisela is born.ġ939: 1 September: the German invasion of Poland begins Horst is drafted in to the military and sent to the Eastern Front.ġ942: Richter joins the Pimpfe, an organisation that prepares children to join the Hitler Youth.ġ943: Hildegard and the children move to rural Waltersdorf to evade the growing dangers of the Second World War. 1932 : 9 February: Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden to Hildegard Richter, a bookseller, and Horst Richter, a school teacher.ġ933: 30 January: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor.ġ936: the Richter family moves to Reichenau, a town close to Dresden, today known as Bogatynia in Poland.
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