Don Reichert

Don Karl Reichert (11 January 1932 – 8 September 2013) was a Canadian artist. While primarily a painter in the abstract expressionist tradition, he was also notable for his work as a photographer and in digital media.

Career Donald Reichert was born in Libau, Manitoba in 1932 to parents who had immigrated from Austria. He studied art in Canada, Mexico, and England and then from 1964 taught at the University of Manitoba. As a young man, he was praised by the critic Clement Greenberg on a visit in 1963 who said he had the most possibilities of the artists Greenberg had seen in Winnipeg.

Reichert's early work often combined the elegant brush-strokes of abstract expressionist painting with the techniques of color field composition. Other significant strands of his work, center on black-and-white paintings resembling Asian calligraphy, or on the use of Latin American imagery, particularly pre-contact Mayan skull motifs

Selected public collections Reichert produced work which is in many notable collections, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Art, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Canada Council Art Bank.