# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gunter-rittner
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:31:51.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gunter-rittner"
name: "Günter Rittner"
slug: "gunter-rittner"
description: "Günter Rittner was a German painter and illustrator. He ranks among the best known German portrayers of the 20th Century. Rittner's portraits of Ludwig Erhard as well as of Kurt Georg Kiesinger are the foundation of the Gallery of Chancellors, established in 1976 by former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the Bundeskanzleramt in Berlin."
tagline: "German painter and illustrator (1927–2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rittner_Selbstportrait_1997.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1927-03-11"
deathDate: "2020-11-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.2
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.472966666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.guenterrittner.de/en/"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Rittner"
    title: "Günter Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B1"
    title: "جونتر ريتنر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Rittner"
    title: "Günter Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Rittner"
    title: "Günter Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Rittner"
    title: "Günter Rittner"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%93%D1%8E%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Ритнер, Гюнтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump