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Gerhard Ritcher

Gerhard Ritcher was born on the 9th of February 1932 (aged 88) in Dresden, Weimar Republic. He is a German visual artist, Ritcher studied in Dresden art academy, in Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Ritcher has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auctions. Ritchers website where you can visit his work an more info on him is-

www.gerhard-ritcher.com

Ritcher left school after 10th grade and became an apprentice as an

advertising and stage-set painter, before studying at the Dresden Academy of fine arts. In 1950, his application for study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts was rejected as “too bourgeois”, He finally began his studies at the Academy in 1951 when he finally got accepted.

Ritcher married Marianne Eufinger in 1957, she gave birth to his first daughter. He married his second wife, who was a sculptor called Isa Genzken, in 1982. Ritcher had two sons and a daughter with his third wife, Sabine Moritz after they were married in 1995.

Gerhard Ritcher is known for the diversity of his approaches to painting. His practice can seem to be structured by various oppositions, with paintings after photographs countering abstract pictures, traditional still-life’s alongside highly charged subjects, monochrome grey works and multicoloured grids.

His work are very multicoloured and brightly coloured paint on plain sightseeing photos with a layer of paint to make the photo more interesting.

Ritcher often seems to scrape the surface of an abstract painting with a knife, or the wrong-end of the brush, but occasionally he also takes a knife and cuts into the top layer of paint, and then peels off some of the top layer of the painting. This makes the picture stand out from normal photos because it makes his audience double take the image to be blown out their mind with the work.

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Kim Keever

Kim Keever was born in 1955 is an American artist and photographer whose dramatic scenes which are characterized by an imagined and realistic appearance. When he creates his setups, he documents places what have never existed off D.C. ever will. Over exaggerated yet natural-looking environments and textures are positioned against vivid colours that create visual reactions. This create a certain nostalgia and a longing to explore uncharted territory. He use light as a medium, Keever transports his viewers into a dreamy and sensory realm. His photographs pay homage to the Hudson River School, The Luminist School and photographs of the American west. Kim is was born in New York City in 1955 but moved to Virginia until nine years old then moved to Chicago with his mum and sister, which he then discovered in first grade he could do art very well, though he studied art throughout high school, it was not until working on a graduate degree in thermal engineering he then realised creating art was what he truly loved. Keever setup photography will shoot anything from 10 to 100 shots every time he fills the tank, and then looks through each 100- megapixel file, scanning for shapes and compositions that catch his eye. Kim often spends months working on the selected images from a single shoot and has taken over 35,000 shots with his current abstract series.