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Anyone who speaks of Dresden's fine arts in the first half of the 20th century is justified in thinking first of painting, for art history of this period is able to report on its own Dresden school of painters, whose most characteristic feature is the cultivation of a very noble peinture. While Otto Dix began his war drawings in the middle of the second decade, Hans Theo Richter made sensational drawings in the 1930s. Hans Theo Richter was born in 1902 in the Middle Saxon town of Rochlitz on the Zwickauer Mulde river, to which he was always drawn. After the early death of his father, the family moved to the charming garden city of Radebeul near Dresden in order to participate in the intellectual life of the neighbouring royal seat. This is where Hans Theo Richter spent his youth. As the son of a family of artists, his early involvement with music and drawing came naturally to him.

At the age of 16, Hans Theo Richter entered the Academy of Arts and Crafts in Dresden, an excellently run educational institution where Otto Dix had also begun his artistic career ten years earlier. Here he studied painting and graphic art. He met Georg Richter-Lößnitz early on, in whose workshop he printed his first etchings. Afterwards he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden under Richard Müller, later as a master student of Otto Dix.

Richter received many prizes, including the Jubilee Prize of the city of Dresden, and became a member of the German Artists' Association. In 1933 he was awarded the Rome Prize of the Deutscher Künstlerbund.