RICHTER, tih'ter; Ger man painter and designer: b. Dresden, 28 Sept.
1803; d. near there, 19 June 1884. His father, Karl August Richter, the well-known copper plate engraver, was his first teacher, as he war his father's collaborateur in the production of landscapes in blac.k amd• white. In 1820 he ac communed Prince Narischkin in ajuurney through France as •draughtsman to 'illustrate that nobleman's travels; subsequently he spent three years, ending 1824 be Italy. He next ap plied himself to study the masters of the North Holland School, and chose J. Schnorr as hit especial model and standard.of-excellence. Re turning to Germany.he wasappointed in 1828 to a position in the School of Design at Meis sen, which he held for 10 yeare, meanwhile acquiring a popular reputation as illustrator of 'The Vicar of Wakefield) and 'Popular Books. of Germany.) He inaugurated an epoch in, German illustrative art by his sympathetic in terpretation of life in Germany, has tender humor and refined fancy. While he drew
on'wood for book illustration he also executed numerous etchings, mostly of Italian landscapes. The most important of his landscapes, in oil,, which, however, are marred by a certain cold ness of treatment, are 'Storm on Mount Gerone) (1830, in the Museum, Frankfort-on, Main) ; 'Harvest Time on the Roman
papa) (1833, Leipzig Museum)