Since the late 1990s, Daniel Richter has captivated the German art world with his figurative compositions in large-format oil paintings. His works, perceived as narrative visual worlds, combine elements from mass media and everyday life into masterful images of pop culture. In a broader sense, Daniel Richter has historically significant reimagined history paintings and made aspects of the counterculture of the 1980s accessible to high culture. This is evident in how he revisits the failure of social utopias at the end of the 20th century—“... as if it were the last time”—by depicting punks and street fighters in vibrant, colorful motifs. With his new paintings, Daniel Richter remains true to his theme of outsider and adventurer. At the center stands the figure of the Old Man of the Mountain and the Assassins.