in 1988. In 2001, he was awarded the Otto Ritschl Prize that honours a life's work in colour painting. Further reading Ernst-Gerhard Güse, ed., Gotthard Graubner: Malerei, exhibition catalog, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, 14 May – 16 July 1995. Gotthard Graubner: Träger des Otto Ritschl Preises 2001 – Gotthard Graubner: Recipient of the Otto Ritschl Prize 2001, exh. cat. Museum Wiesbaden (Düsseldorf: Richter Verlag, 2001). Veit Görner and Caroline Sommer, eds., Gotthard Graubner: Farblicht, exhibition catalog, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, 16 May – 3 August 2003. Dorit Schäfer, ed., Gotthard Graubner: Radierungen, exhibition catalog, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 12 July – 28 September 2008. Uwe Wieczorek, ed., Gotthard Graubner: Malerei – Painting, exhibition catalog, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, 4 February – 25 April 2010. Erich Franz, Gotthard Graubner: Zeichnungen – Drawings, Düsseldorf, 2011. Gotthard Graubner: Magier der Farbe, exhibition catalog, Akademie-Galerie, Die Neue Sammlung, Düsseldorf, 27 September 2013 – 26 January 2014. Richard Hoppe-Sailer, "Farbe – Fläche – Körper – Raum: Gotthard Graubners Gemälde im Dialog mit der Hildesheimer Bernwardtür", in Michael Brandt and Gerd Winner, eds., übergänge | transitions: Gotthard Graubner – Bernwardtür – Qiu Shihua, Hildesheim, 2014, pp. 6–15. See also List of German painters Notes External links Ketterer Kunst Website The Art World Online – Gotthard Graubner Artfacts: Gotthard Graubner Gotthard Graubner Biography Raum der Stille im Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen. "Kissenkunst, zerrissene Realität", Die Zeit, 19 December 1975. Hans-Joachim Müller, "Gotthard Graubner und das Wunder der Farbe", Die Welt, 27 May 2013. Gotthard Graubner at the Galerie m Bochum 1930 births 2013 deaths 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists German male painters 21st-century German painters 21st-century German male artists German contemporary artists Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni Academic staff of the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg