Hans Theo Richter

Drawing and graphic art have always played a major role in Dresden and are therefore also a focus of the Leonhardi Museum's exhibition programme. One of the most important draughtsmen in Dresden was Hans Theo Richter (1902-1969). Initially a pupil of Otto Dix, he was himself a professor at the HfBK Dresden from 1947. We have shown successors to his professorship such as Gerhard Kettner, Elke Hopfe and Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler in the Leonhardi Museum, as well as important Richter students such as Max Uhlig and Dieter Goltzsche.

Now, with the support of the Hildegard and Hans Theo Richter Foundation, we can finally also show an exhibition of this important draughtsman and graphic artist, after we were able to present the exhibition of previous winners of the Hans Theo Richter Prize in our museum in 2014 in collaboration with the Foundation, the Saxon Academy of Arts and the SKD Kupferstich-Kabinett.