Daniel Richter is a German artist known for his large-scale paintings inspired by mass media and contemporary culture as seen in his painting Lonely Old Slogan (2006). Working in the tradition of Expressionism, Richter’s practice could be seen as following in the footsteps of Edvard Munch and James Ensor. “At least for me, when you do something you have not mastered yet, there is a long process of not really being aware of yourself and by the moment you finish this process you can regard the pictures as a product of your own thinking,” he said of painting. “And when you look at the works and try to look at it as someone else, not as yourself, you actually learn about the way you see the world.” Born on December 18, 1962 in Eutin, Germany, he was a student of Werner Büttner at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts during the 1990s, and later worked as Albert Oehlen’s studio assistant. Over the years, Richter’s work has evolved from the wild abstractions of his youth towards politically based representational imagery. Today, he lives and works between Berlin and Hamburg, Germany. Richter’s works are held in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Bonn, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art in Bremen, among others.