“Daniel Richter” is a film about his Daniel Richter’s paintings, which first became abstract, then more and more figurative and today again, as he says, “modern”. A film about his talent as a draftsman, as a painter, as a performer, and last but not least a film about the human being Daniel Richter – flanked by his painter friends Jonathan Meese and Tal R, the collector Harald Falckenberg and the curator Eva Meyer-Hermann.

Richter, a former punk from Hamburg’s squatter scene, is now a star on the international art scene. His paintings are bought, collected, and traded all over the world. He is a rebel at heart, a deeply political man. His attitude has also always flowed into his art. Somehow. And so Oscar-winning director Pepe Danquart’s documentary is much more than a classic portrait of the artist, more than a tribute to his work and his life.

The film follows Daniel Richter over a period of three years, captures his artistic development, celebrates his major exhibitions in New York and Paris with him, observes him uncommented and for a long time in his studio: painting, listening to music, thinking.

The result is a film about art that wants to be political and yet, in the best sense, remains what it is: painting! Or in other words: oil on canvas, image, drama, gesture, control, nicotine, alcohol, sex, violence, reaction, Instagram. //danquart.de

Our wonderful biopic, produced together with @b14film, was shown at the Festival des deutschen Films – and as if that wasn’t enough: Daniel Richter was nominated for the Rheingold Audience Award 2023 as part of the @festivaldesdeutschenfilms. We are full of pride and joy. A great contemporary visual artist narrates, laughs, ponders, dances and revises himself. An intense and fascinating long-term observation of Daniel Richter, created and filmed by @pepedanquart.