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'''Vjenceslav Richter''' (1917, Drenova, Croatia - 2003, Zagreb, Croatia) was an architect. He studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb (1949). 1950–1956 member of [[Exat 51]]. Architect of the Yugoslav pavilion at EXPO 58, Brussels.
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'''Vjenceslav Richter''' (1917, Drenova, Croatia - 2003, Zagreb, Croatia) earned his degree in architecture at the Technical Faculty in Zagreb in 1949. He is one of the founders of [[Exat 51]] (1951),  Studio of Industrial Design (1956) and the Centre for Industrial Design (1963) in Zagreb. Richter headed the Architecture Department at the Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb (1950-1954). In all his activities, from designing the exhibition spaces Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Brussels 1958 and Triennale of Milan in 1964, to painting, Richter carried out the principle of artistic synthesis. Beginning in the early 1960s he developed a systematic approach to urban planning (sinturbanizam) and sculpture (system sculpture), from the 1970s in print works, and from the 1980s in system painting. Richter also created acknowledged stage set designs for major opera and theater performances.  
  
; Exhibitions
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==Catalogues==
* ''Vjenceslav Richter'', Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, Zagreb, 1968.  
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* ''[[Media:Dobrovic_Feller_Galic_Kuduz_Picelj_Srnec_Sutej_1968.pdf|Juraj Dobrović, Eugen Feller, Mladen Galić, Ante Kuduz, Ivan Picelj, Aleksandar Srnec, Miroslav Šutej]]'', Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1968, [10] pp. With text by Ješa Denegri. {{sc}}
* ''Plus By Minus: Today’s Half-Century'', Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1968.  
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* ''[[Media:Vjenceslav Richter GSU Zagreb 1968.pdf|Vjenceslav Richter]]'', Zagreb: Galerija suvremene umjetnosti, 1968. {{cr}}
* ''De consequenties van de machine'', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1973.  
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* ''[[Media:Vjenceslav Richter MSU Beograd 1969.pdf|Vjenceslav Richter]]'', Belgrade: Muzej savremene umetnosti, 1969. {{sc}}
* ''[[Media:Juraj_Dobrovic_Julije_Knifer_Vjenceslav_Richter_1973.pdf|Juraj Dobrović, Julije Knifer, Vjenceslav Richter]]'', XII Bienial de Sao Paulo, 1973.
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* ''Vjenceslav Richter. Plastiken, Systeme, Architektur'', intro. Vera Horvat-Pintarić, eds. Gottfried Biedermann and Ulrike Kortschak, Graz: Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1972, [88] pp. {{de}}
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* ''Vjenceslav Richter. Systemic Graphics'', Zagreb, 1973, 36 pp. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Juraj_Dobrovic_Julije_Knifer_Vjenceslav_Richter_1973.pdf|Juraj Dobrović, Julije Knifer, Vjenceslav Richter. Yugoslavia. XII Bienial de Sao Paulo]]'', ed. Božo Bek, Interrepublic Coordinative Commitee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries of R.S.F. Yugoslavia, 1973, [39] pp. {{en}}
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* [https://www.bibliofil.hr/en/vjenceslav-richter more]
  
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==Publications==
 
* ''Sinturbanizam'', Zagreb: Mladost, 1964, 103 pp. [http://exat51.tumblr.com/post/68624847855/forecast-of-the-synthesis-of-life-and-art-as-an] {{cr}}
 
* ''Sinturbanizam'', Zagreb: Mladost, 1964, 103 pp. [http://exat51.tumblr.com/post/68624847855/forecast-of-the-synthesis-of-life-and-art-as-an] {{cr}}
* ''Systemic Graphics'', Zagreb, 1973, 36 pp.
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* [http://www.ipu.hr/content/zivot-umjetnosti/ZU_15-16-1971_062-065_Richter.pdf "Subjektivne projekcije svijeta"], ''Zivot umjetnosti'' 15-16, Zagreb, 1971. {{cr}}
* ''Challenge to the Heritage (A General Method of Dividing Angles and a New Division of the Circle)'', Ceres, 1997.
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* ''A Challenge to the Heritage: A General Method of Dividing Angles and a New Division of the Circle'', Zagreb: Ceres, 1996, 47 pp. {{en}}
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** ''Herausforderung an das Erbe allgemeine Methode der Winkelteilung und neue Kreisteilung'', trans. Rada Govedarica and Zrinka Kuzmanić, Zagreb: Ceres, 1997, 48 pp. {{de}}
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* ''The Philosophy of the Improbable'', 1997.  
  
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==Literature==
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* Vera Horvat-Pintarić, ''Vjenceslav Richter'', Zagreb: Grafički zavod Hrvatske, 1970, 108 pp. [https://www.bibliofil.hr/en/vera-horvat-pintaric-vjenceslav-richter] {{cr}}/{{en}}
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==See also==
 
* [[EXAT 51]]
 
* [[EXAT 51]]
 
* [[New Tendencies]]
 
* [[New Tendencies]]
  
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==Links==
 
* http://www.richter.com.hr
 
* http://www.richter.com.hr
 
* http://richter.mdc.hr
 
* http://richter.mdc.hr
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* [http://www.msu.hr/?/hr/21297/ 2017 retrospective at MSU Zagreb]
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* [http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=528648 Profile on Prabook]
 
* http://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/4506-VJENCESLAV-RICHTER/
 
* http://www.avantgarde-museum.com/en/museum/collection/4506-VJENCESLAV-RICHTER/
 
* http://relaunch.compart-bremen.de/node/791
 
* http://relaunch.compart-bremen.de/node/791
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vjenceslav_Richter
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vjenceslav_Richter Wikipedia]
  
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Revision as of 21:28, 3 December 2017

Detail of a Ziggurat, from Sinturbanizam, 1964.

Vjenceslav Richter (1917, Drenova, Croatia - 2003, Zagreb, Croatia) earned his degree in architecture at the Technical Faculty in Zagreb in 1949. He is one of the founders of Exat 51 (1951), Studio of Industrial Design (1956) and the Centre for Industrial Design (1963) in Zagreb. Richter headed the Architecture Department at the Academy of Applied Arts in Zagreb (1950-1954). In all his activities, from designing the exhibition spaces Pavilion for the World Exhibition in Brussels 1958 and Triennale of Milan in 1964, to painting, Richter carried out the principle of artistic synthesis. Beginning in the early 1960s he developed a systematic approach to urban planning (sinturbanizam) and sculpture (system sculpture), from the 1970s in print works, and from the 1980s in system painting. Richter also created acknowledged stage set designs for major opera and theater performances.

Catalogues

Publications

  • Sinturbanizam, Zagreb: Mladost, 1964, 103 pp. [1] (Croatian)
  • "Subjektivne projekcije svijeta", Zivot umjetnosti 15-16, Zagreb, 1971. (Croatian)
  • A Challenge to the Heritage: A General Method of Dividing Angles and a New Division of the Circle, Zagreb: Ceres, 1996, 47 pp. (English)
    • Herausforderung an das Erbe allgemeine Methode der Winkelteilung und neue Kreisteilung, trans. Rada Govedarica and Zrinka Kuzmanić, Zagreb: Ceres, 1997, 48 pp. (German)
  • The Philosophy of the Improbable, 1997.

Literature

  • Vera Horvat-Pintarić, Vjenceslav Richter, Zagreb: Grafički zavod Hrvatske, 1970, 108 pp. [2] (Croatian)/(English)

See also

Links