| EVELYN RICHTER | |
| 1930 | Born in Bautzen |
| 1948–1951 | Photographic training with Pan Walther and Fritz Fiedler in Dresden |
| 1951–1952 | Laboratory assistant at the United industrial sites Dresden |
| 1952–1953 | Photographer for specialized optics at the Institute for Technical Mechanics at the TU Dresden |
| 1953–1955 | Studies of Photography at the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig |
| since 1955 | Freelance photographer |
| 1967 | Freelance photographer, in particular for Sonntag. Magazine for Art and Literature |
| 1981–1990 | Teaching performance, later lecturer in photography at the HGB Leipzig |
| 1990–1991 | Teaching photography at the University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld |
| 1991–2001 | Teaching performance and honorary professorship at the HGB Leipzig |
| 2021 | Passed away in Dresden in October at the age of 91 |
| SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2023–2024 | Evelyn Richter. A Photographer's Life, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| The Miracle of Human Life, Loock Galerie, Berlin | |
| 2022–2023 | Evelyn Richter, Art palace, Düsseldorf; Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| 2021 | Evelyn Richter "On the Latency of Images". Photographs from the 2000s, Leica Gallery, Constance |
| 2020 | Focus Evelyn Richter, Albertinum, Dresden State Art Collection |
| 2018 | On the latency of images. Photographs by Evelyn Richter, exhibition and project space bautzner69, Dresden (in collaboration with Werner Lieberknecht) |
| 2013 | Evelyn Richter. The photo book, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| 2010 | Evelyn Richter. Photography, Leonhardi Museum, Dresden |
| 2008–2009 | David Oistrach. Photographs by Evelyn Richter, Michaelstein Monastery Foundation, Blankenburg |
| David Oistrakh. A working portrait. Photographs by Evelyn Richter, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig | |
| 2005 | Evelyn Richter. Retrospective, Concepts, Fragments, Museums of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| 2003 | Leica Gallery, New York |
| 2002/2003 | Goethe Institute, Washington (catalog) |
| 2001 | Viewing Art. Artists and Art History in Lens, DOMizil at the Berliner Dom, Berlin |
| 2000 | Life paths – Traces of time (with Agathe Böttcher), City Museum Bautzen |
| 1998 | Ystads Konstmusem, Ystad, Sweden (with Sarah Kirsch) |
| 1997 | Encounters, German Historical Museum, Berlin |
| 1994 | Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, Belgium |
| 1993 | L'est – ou le temps arrêté, Grande Arche de la Défense, Paris |
| 1993 | Interim Balance, Gallery of the HGB Leipzig |
| 1992/1993 | Interim Balance. Photographs from the years 1950–1998, State Gallery Moritzburg Halle (catalog) |
| 1992 | Evelyn Richter DGPh Cultural Award Winner, Dresden University of Fine Arts |
| 1991 | Leica Gallery, Solms |
| Gallery of the Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig | |
| Goethe Institute, Oslo | |
| 1987 | Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles (individual contribution) |
| University of Fine Arts Dresden | |
| 1984 | Evelyn Richter – Photographer from Leipzig, GDR, Photo Museum in the Munich City Museum, Munich |
| 1983 | Evelyn Richter. Photography Portraits, Gallery P, Leipzig |
| Exhibition visitor, studio exhibition, Old Museum, Berlin (East) | |
| 1979 | New Cobalt House of the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy, Dresden |
| GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION) | |
| 2020/2021 | Berlin, 1945–2000. A Photographic Subject, Reinbeckhallen, Berlin |
| 2018/2019 | Medea rebels. Radical women artists behind the Iron Curtain, Albertinum Dresden; Wende Museum, Culver City |
| 2017/2018 | In the Moment. Photography from Saxony and Lusatia, Museum of Cultural History Görlitz |
| 2017 | The photographed distance. Photographers on their travels (1880–2015), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin |
| 2016 | Captured Time. Ursula Arnold, Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| The Teaching. Arno Fischer, Evelyn Richter, Art Gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig | |
| 2015 | East Germany through the eyes of Evelyn Richter and Werner Liebknecht. Photographs from 1950 to 2015, BildungsTURM in the Cultural Center at the Minster, Constance |
| Landscape. Photographs by Ursula Arnold and Evelyn Richter, Neuhardenberg Castle Foundation, Neuhardenberg | |
| 2013 | Encounters of the images. 25 years of the photography collection, State Gallery Moritzburg, Halle (Saale) |
| 2012/2013 | Closed Society. Artistic Photography in the GDR 1945–1989, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin |
| 2011 | Leipzig. Photography since 1839, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig |
| 2010 | East Side Story: German Photographs 1950s–1980s, Kicken Berlin |
| 2009/2010 | Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Germanic National Museum Nuremberg; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
| 60/40/20 Art in Leipzig since 1949, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig | |
| The Other Leipzig School – Photography in the GDR, Art Gallery Erfurt | |
| 2007/2008 | Do Not Refreeze: Photgraphy Behind the Berlin Wall, Cornerhouse, Manchester; UH Galleries, Hatfield; Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea;Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton; Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham |
| 2006 | Made in Leipzig, Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg. |
| Friends incognito. Foreign photographers of the 20th Century in the Moravian Gallery collection, Moravská galerie, Brno | |
| 2005 | East. Esposizione Fotografica sull'evoluzione dell'architettura tedesca dell' 900. Castello Estense, Ferrara |
| 2004/2005 | Utopia and Reality. East German Photography 1956–1989, Forum for Photgraphy cologne; Willy-Brandt-House Berlin (catalog) |
| 2004 | Germany is searching, Cologne Art Society, Cologne (catalog) |
| The Second Glance, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig | |
| Dresden Photographs, Friesen Gallery, Dresden | |
| 2003/2004 | Berlin – Moscow, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
| A Clear Vision. Photographic Works from the Collection F. C. Gundlach, International House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (catalog) | |
| 2003 | Art in the GDR. A Retrospective in the National Gallery, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Catalog) |
| Public – Private, Gallery for Contemporary Art, Leipzig | |
| 2002 | East. Photo exhibition of Verbundnetz Gas AG, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Leipzig |
| Nike. An exhibition of the Leipzig Free Academy of the Arts on the occasion of its 10th anniversary, Art Gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig | |
| 2001/2002 | Foto-Anschlag. Four generations of East German photographers. Forum of Contemporary History Leipzig; House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn (catalog) |
| 2001 | People and Stories. German photography after 1945, Galerie Zimmer as guest at Lempertz in Berlin |
| 1999 | Clarification of a Fact, Camera and Photo Museum Leipzig |
| pro figura. 4th Bautzener Herbstsalon, Bautzener Art Association e. V. (Catalog) | |
| Annual rings – Art space GDR. A Collection 1945–1989, Art house Apolda Avantgarde (catalog) | |
| 1998 | Signatures of the Visible – A Century of Photography in Germany, Galerie at the Fishmarket, Erfurt |
| German Photography I, Reportage Photography after 1945, Galerie Zimmer, Düsseldorf | |
| Pleasure and Burden. Leipzig Art since 1945, Germanic National Museum Nuremberg; Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (catalog) | |
| The Promise of Photography – The DG Bank Collection, traveling exhibition Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover; Centre National de la Photgraphie, Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (catalog) | |
| 1997 | German Photography: The Power of a Medium 1870–1970, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn (catalog) |
| Positions of Artistic Photography in Germany since 1945, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalog) | |
| pro figura. 2nd Bautzen Autumn Salon | |
| 1995 | Acquired 1992–1995, Acquisitions of the Free State of Saxony, Georgenbau of Dresden Castle, Dresden State Art Collections (catalog) |
| 1994 | Aspects of German Photography after 45, Fotogalerie Vienna |
| 1993/1994 | Lebensräume – Fotografien aus der Leipziger Schule 1955–1993, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; Kunstforum am MArkt, Bremen (catalog) |
| 1993 | Leipziger Schule: Photography Graduates and Student Works 1980–1993, Gallery of the HGB Leipzig |
| 1992 | Nothing is as simple as it seems. East German Photography 1945–1989, Berlinische Galerie im Martin-Gropius Bau. Berlin |
| 1991 | DDR Women photographing – a retrospective, Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden |
| 1990/1991 | Zeitbilder – Pioneers of Photography in the GDR, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Cottbus; Galerie am Fischmarkt, Erfurt |
| 1990 | Leipzig School. Painting/graphics/photography. Teachers and graduates of the HGB Leipzig, Staatliche Kunsthalle Berin; Städtische Galerie Schloß Oberhausen; Kunstverein Hannover (catalog) |
| Exhibition of the New Germany, Musée de L'Elysée, Lausanne | |
| Images of the New Germany, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (catalog) | |
| Lecturers and graduates of the HGB Leipzig, exhibition on the occasion of the 11th Bielefeld Symposium on | |
| Photography: Can photography capture our time in images? Bielefeld University Gallery | |
| GDR women photographing, House at Lützowplatz, Berlin | |
| 1989 | The Observed Viewer, Art Association Mannheim (catalog) |
| Exhibition on the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig 1945–1989, Gallery of the HGB Leipzig; Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (catalog) | |
| Photography of the 20th century, HGB Leipzig (catalog) | |
| 1988 | Between Elbe and Volga. 16 photographers from Eastern Europe and the GDR, ZANGO e. V. Fotoforum Munich (catalog) |
| Photography in the Art of the GDR, Historic town hall, Cologne (catalog) | |
| 1986/1987 | Photography in the Art of the GDR, State Art Collections Cottbus; Galerie at the Fishmarket, Erfurt; Art Hall Rostock (catalog) |
| 1986 | Women artists in the GDR. Femmes-artistes de la R.D.A., Cultural Center of the GDR, Paris |
| 1985 | The personal point of view, exhibition on the occasion of the I. Munich Photo Symposium, Lenbachhaus, Munich |
| Early Images. An exhibition on the history of photography in the GDR. Society for Photography in the Cultural Association of the GDR, Leipzig (catalog) | |
| 1984 | Everyday Life and Epoch. Works of visual art of the GDR from thirty-five years, Old Museum, Berin (East) (catalog) |
| 1982 | IX. Art exhibition of the GDR, Dresden (catalog) |
| 1977/1978 | Medium Photography, Galerie Red Tower, Halle |
| 1977 | 4th World Photography Exhibition, The Children of the World, traveling exhibition (catalog) |
| 1973 | 3rd World Photography Exhibition, On the Way to Paradise, traveling exhibition (catalog) |
| 1965/1966 | World Press Photo 1965, Municipal Museum of The Hague, The Hague |
| 1964 | World Exhibition of Photography, What is Man? Traveling exhibition (catalog) |
| 1959 | the group, joint exhibition of five young photographers, Jürgen Vorberg, Rosel Bock, Evelyn Richter, Volkmar Jäger, Arno Fischer, Kunstkabinett Lometsch, Kassel |
| 1958 | action fotografie 58, Hansahaus, Leipzig Association of Polish Art Photographers, Warsaw (with Arno Fischer) |
| 1957 | World Youth Festival, Moscow Youth Festival |
| 57 | action fotografie, Messehaus Handelshof, Leipzig (catalog) |
| 1956 | action photography 56, Cinema Capitol Leipzig (catalog) |
| COLLECTIONS (SELECTION) | |
| Lend from the eastgerman Sparkassenstiftung to the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig | |
| Art Palace, Düsseldorf |