At the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark through January 8
Above: Zurberes (2000), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas, 255 x 370 cm. Hort Family Collection. Home page/Art page: Bill (2015), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas. 200 x 270 cm. Private Collection, Rotterdam. Courtesy Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris – Salzburg. Photo: Jens Ziehe/Photographie.
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BY: Howard Karren
The magnificent, sleekly modernist Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, is nestled into a parklike seaside setting 25 miles north of Copenhagen, with Sweden not far away across the Øresund. Through January 8, 2017, it will present “Daniel Richter: Lonely Old Slogans,” a mid-career retrospective exhibition of the German artist, who got his start doing punk album covers in the ’80s and has a dreamlike, satirical figurative style of oil painting that evokes the German Expressionist masters of the pre-World War II era. PROVOKR here offers a small sample of what is on view.
Bill (2015), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas. 200 x 270 cm. Private Collection, Rotterdam. Courtesy Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris – Salzburg. Photo: Jens Ziehe/Photographie.
Tarifa (2001), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas, 350 x 280 cm. Collection Ken and Helen Rowe, London. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
Study for The Surprising Comeback of Dr. Freud (2005), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas, 220 x 170 x 5 cm. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Alles Ohne Nichts (2006–07), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas, 230.3 x 319.9 cm. Tatintsian Collection. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
Erinnerungen an S.O.36 (2009), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas, 60 x 80 cm. Igal Ahouvi Art Collection. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
Lonely Old Slogan (2006), by Daniel Richter. Oil on canvas, 250 x 280 cm. Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Falckenberg Collection. Photo: Jochen Littkemann, Berlin.
