Thomas Ritter

Born in 1955 in Hoxter (Germany), Thomas Ritter lives and works near Hanover and Vastergotland/ Sweden. His initial studies at teacher’s training college in Hanover (1975-1978) were followed by several years of social education work with foreign children and the state examinations for secondary modern teachers.

During the periods 1984- 1989 he undertook a course of studies in free art under Prof. Redeker at the Hanover Fachhochschule. Thomas Ritter has been lecturing on nude and figure drawing at the University of Hanover since 1989 – 1997.

Since 1986 he has lived with the painter Eva-Susann Karsthof and their three children in a farmhouse in the south of Hanover.

An artist who is introverted and calm, Thomas Ritter prefers not to tie himself down conceptually; rather turn visual notions into emotional reality. With a calm, well-considered and contemplative manner, he introduces abstract and figurative forms that become pictorial reality. Even his vacant, sombre forms and supple edges elicit rich visual imagery.