Franz Allbert Richter
Expectation
Bio:
Franz Allbert Richter, of Clarkfield, MN, was born in Seattle, Washington
on October 16, 1942. He studied at the Art Center School, Los Angeles,
California, worked with William J. Ketelle, Woodworker and also with
the architectural firm Grebner, Schoen & Associates in St. Paul.
This established Richter’s focus on industrial, architectural
and graphic design, influenced by the Bauhaus philosophy of the using
the least material for the most efficient use of space.
On returning to the active arts scene around the University
of Minnesota’s West Bank, Richter collaborated with Garrison Keillor,
reconfiguring the format of the Ivory Tower, a University literary publication.
He continued working in the small press design and publications with
The Nickel & Dime Quarterly, 1969; Fifty Five Leap Frogs, 1969,
Parrot in the Wheat, 1971, Watch the Turtle, 1972, War Hangover, 1987
with artist Gregory Bitz.
Richter developed an imaginative and distinctive drawing
style as an artist-illustrator for Old Man Rubbing His Eyes, Robert
Bly; Raingatherer, Franklin Brainerd; Well Digger’s Wife, Louis
Jenkins; Twenty Poems, Thomas Tranströmer.
