Hans Theo Richter

Drawing and graphic art have always played a major role in Dresden and are therefore also a key 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 became a professor at the HfBK Dresden in 1947. We have exhibited works by his successors in the professorship – such as Gerhard Kettner, Elke Hopfe and Wolfram Adalbert Scheffler – at the Leonhardi Museum, as well as those by important pupils of Richter, including Max Uhlig and Dieter Goltzsche.

Now, with the support of the Hildegard and Hans Theo Richter Foundation, we are finally able to present an exhibition dedicated to this significant draughtsman and printmaker, having previously presented an exhibition of past winners of the Hans Theo Richter Prize at our museum in 2014, in collaboration with the Foundation, the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the SKD.