Hans Theo Richter Prize winner 1998 – 2014

To mark the 10th award of the Hans Theo Richter Prize, the Saxon Academy of Arts, the Kupferstich-Kabinett of the Dresden State Art Collections and the Hildegard and Hans Theo Richter Foundation, in collaboration with the Leonhardi Museum Dresden, are organising the exhibition

"Hans Theo Richter Prize Winners 1998 - 2014"

1998 Max Uhlig
1999 Jirí Kolár
2000 Paula Ribariu, Werner Wittig
2001peter Graf
2003 Thomas Ranft
2005 Lutz Fleischer
2007 Wolfram A. Scheffler
2010 Dieter Goltzsche
2012 Hanns Schimansky
2014 Claus Weidensdorfer

Hans Theo Richter (1902 - 1969) was a great master as a graphic artist, draughtsman and teacher. In the decades when abstract approaches dominated the international art scene, he persistently adhered to figuration and lent it a particularly intense and humane language. The recipients of the graphic art prize awarded in his name continue Hans Theo Richter's high artistic standards with their fundamentally different styles. To mark the 10th awarding of the Hans Theo Richter Prize, the Saxon Academy of Arts, the Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Hildegard and Hans Theo Richter Foundation, in collaboration with the Leonhardi Museum Dresden, are organising an exhibition of the previous prizewinners. Many of these artists, such as Max Uhlig, Peter Graf, Lutz Fleischer, Dieter Goltzsche, Claus Weidensdorfer and most recently Hanns Schimansky, have already had solo exhibitions at the Leonhardi Museum. It is now a particular pleasure and honour for us to be able to present them again, this time together with all the other winners of the Hans Theo Richter Prize. The exhibition includes around 60 works by the prizewinners as well as a collection of works by Hans Theo Richter.