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Bloomberg on Daniel Richter |
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Written by Ken Hamel
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Wednesday, 30 July 2008 |
Artist Daniel Richter - photo by Elfie Semotan for Bloomberg News
The Bloomberg news service has an interesting article on German artist Daniel Richter who will be on display here in Denver at the DAM come October 2008 ("'Paranoid Westerner' Richter Paints Crowds, Harlequins, Terror" Interview by Matthias Schatz). I had written about the show a few months back when the DAM floated the initial press release but at the time had no idea the artist's works were selling for close to a million bucks a pop. From the article:
Though he has a studio in Berlin, he has kept [his low rent Hamburg apartment] on the so-called "Fleetinsel," a block of old warehouses alongside a "Fleet," the Hamburg term for canal. It's close to a lively square with restaurants, bookshops and galleries.
Richter says many artists live there because the rent is comparatively cheap. He moved there six years before one of his paintings, "Those Who Are Here Again," fetched a record $824,000 in 2007, according to Artnet. Now he uses the apartment mainly for weekends with his theater-director wife Angela and their child.
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