1937 | born in stuttgart |
1959 | studied with HAP Grieshaber at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe |
1960 | own workshop in stuttgart, then in munich |
1963 | participation in the III Youth Biennale Paris |
1964 | Scholarship from the Geschwister Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for the Promotion of the Humanities |
1965 | Scholarship of the Cultural Circle in the Federal Association of German Industry |
1967 | Participation in the Vth Youth Biennale Paris |
1968 | Participation in the IV. documenta in Kassel |
1969 | Guest lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam |
1972 | Relocation to Haidholzen, Stephanskirchen/Simssee |
| member of the german artists' association until 2013 |
1987 | Karl-Rössing travel grant of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Munich |
1995 and 2001 | lecturer for letterpress printing at the summer academy Neuburg a. d. Donau |
| lives in Haidholzen |
Through the printing of psalms, Reichert, who was a student of HAP Grieshaber in Karlsruhe, came to their original language, Hebrew. This awakened his interest in the various forms of the alphabet in different languages. In his prints, Reichert repeatedly takes up letters, genuine objects of a printer, as a motif and uses them as abstract compositional elements. The strict pictorial geometry of the prints is broken up by the choice of colors. In his early text prints, Reichert pressed the wooden letters onto the paper with his foot in a kind of stamp-printing process. When Reichert acquired a toggle press, he began his phase of "Poesia Typografika," a poetry without languages, but with type and letters. Finally, Reichert frees himself completely from formal specifications in his large-format hand prints and since then has used only a spoon as a printing tool, with which he rubs his papers from behind.