Richard Winther
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Richard Winther (23 July 1926, Maribo, Denmark–30 August 2007, Vindeby, Denmark) was a Danish artist. His career focused mainly on painting, graphics, photography and sculpture. Richard's work was greatly influenced by Asger Jorn and Richard Mortensen, both Danish artists part of the Linien group.[1]
Background
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Richard Winther was born Richard Ludvig Philip Weibull Winther. The third of three children, Richard Winther's father included Carl Christian Winther and his mother, Ely Maria Ricardis Weibull. He grew up in a sugar factory. Interested in the arts from an early age, Richard started working on art at age ten and exhibiting his paintings during high school years, after the Linien (The Line) artists' work. Records of his work exist since the early 1940s.[2]
Career
Richard Winther was a student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts where later he became a professor. He founded the exhibition group Linien II with other young artists which initially focused on a spontaneous-abstract style of painting but with time transformed into a geometric-abstract type of movement.[3] Linien II style falls into the concrete art movement. Later on some of Richard Winther's work became intensely abstract and had some of the characteristics of the De Stijl/Konkret Art characteristics. Richard Winther experimented with lithography in the 1950s. Later, his focus shifted to painting the human body.[1] He was a member of Eks-Skolen founded in 1961 by one of his friends, the artist Poul Gernes. There, he taught several upcoming artists, including Per Kirkeby. While always interested in photography, he dedicated a significant part of the 1960s to this technique, which he would revisit time after time the following decades including his last years.
Richard Winther's work is marked by particular themes such as Jerome (Hieronymus)[4] and the biblical flood.[5] Many of these themes fit the idea of recycled classicism. Between 1994 and 2007 he took the idea of recycling forward, making many of his pieces in cardboard. He took recycling to another level when taking previous artists' lives and works and building further on those personalities. An example of this approach is illustrated by the pieces Winther generated on Wie[clarification needed] and Gammel Holtegaard took selected pieces of this effort and exhibited Winther's work on Wie in 2005.[6] Further, Richard Winther took his idea of recycling and applied it to his own work: he revisited many paintings of his as well as his photographic cameras accomplishing an "Rdo Re-do" where Rdo was his latest way of signing his art pieces.
Richard Winther received several awards for his work: the Eckersberg Medal in 1971, Thorvaldsen Medal in 1997,[2][7][8] and the Prince Eugen Medal.
Richard Winther was also involved in the movie The Wake directed by Michael Kvium and Christian Lemmerz[9] where he was the character St Patrick.
He was a member of the following groups: Arme og Ben, Decembristerne, Linien II, and Den Frie Udstilling.
There is a permanent collection of his work at the Silkeborg Kunstmuseum in Denmark. The latest solo exhibitions on Richard Winther's works are:
- 2001: Stege Bibliotek
- 2005: Gammel Holtegaard
- 2008–2009: University of Massachusetts Art Gallery
- 2010: Museum Jorn
- 2011: Clausens Kunsthandel, DAMP and ApArt, Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, and Møstings Hus
- 2012: Rdo Huset and Galleri Tom Christoffersen
- 2012–2013: Fuglsang Kunstmuseum
- 2013: Galleri Klejn, Rdo Huset, Tal R Galleri, Galleri Tom Christoffersen and Stensalen
Events where Richard Winther and other artists had works exhibited together are:
- 2008 Decembristerne
- 2010 Lys over Lolland
- 2011 Galleri Tom Christoffersen
- 2013 Clausens Kunsthandel and Galleri Tom Christoffersen
Books
External links
References
- ^ a b Rdo Wie-Recycling, G1. Holtegaard-Breda Fonden 2005, a copy found in http://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?uri=full=3100001~!781203!0#focus
- ^ a b c Weilbach Dansk Kunsterleksikon, Niende bind, (ISBN 87-621-0013-0)
- ^ Kunst Online
- ^ "Richard Winther". www.museumjorn.dk. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
- ^ "Richard Winthers Syndflod og dommedag af Thorvald Berthelsen - 9788792625823". www.academicbooks.dk. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
- ^ "Tips for Selling Brand Name Products".
- ^ Kunstindeks Danmark, Artist: Richard Winther
- ^ Kunstonline.dk, (in Danish) Richard Winther
- ^ "T H e W a K E". www.wake.dk. Archived from the original on 2007-08-23.
- ^ http://www.bookfinder.com/author/richard-winther/
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