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SALON international art magazineDaniel Richter dropped out of school and training and only applied to the Hamburg University of Fine Arts in his late 20s. Before that he was partly homeless and eked out a living by painting T-shirts at flea markets, among other things. At the beginning of the 1980s he lived as a punk in Hamburg’s squatter scene, his early companions including Schorsch Kamerun and Rocko Schamoni. It was then when he started designing record covers for the Hamburg punk label Buback, among others for Die Goldenen Zitronen, Kamerun’s band. Nowadays he is the sole owner of Buback and is rated as one of the most important contemporary German painters. Daniel Richter says he doesn't really like to paint, he'd prefer the pictures to paint themselves while he reads and sorts records.
