RICHTER, ADRIAN LUDWIG (1803-1884), German painter
and etcher, was born at Dresden in 1803, the son of the engraver
Karl August Richter, from whom he received his training; but
he was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki. He
was the most popular, and in many ways the most typical
German illustrator of the middle of the 19th century. His work
is as typically German and homely as are the fairy-tales of
Grimm. Richter visited Italy from 1823-26, and his “Thunderstorm
in the Sabine Mountains” at the Staedel Institute in
Frankfort is one of the rare Italian subjects from his brush. In
1828 he worked as designer for the Meissen factory, and in 1841
he became professor and head of the landscape atelier at the
Dresden Academy. The Dresden Gallery owns one of his best
and most characteristic paintings in the “Bridal Procession in
a Spring Landscape.” He died at Loschwitz near Dresden
in 1884.