Marcus Reichert

Marcus Reichert (born 1948) is an American painter, poet, author, photographer, and film writer/director.

He was given his first exhibition of paintings at the age of twenty-one at the legendary Gotham Book Mart and Art Gallery, New York, home to the Surrealists during WWII. In 1990, he was honored with a retrospective organised by the Hatton Gallery of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne which toured in various forms to Glasgow, London, Paris, and the United States. His Crucifixion paintings have been described by Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, as being among the most disturbing painted in the 20th Century, while the American critic Donald Kuspit has written that both Picasso's and Bacon's pale in comparison. The first neo-noir, Reichert's film Union City, which premiered at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, was hailed by Lawrence O'Toole, film critic for Time magazine, as "an unqualified masterpiece." His film works are held in the Archive of the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Marcus Reichert is the author of three novels, including the cult classic Verdon Angster, and his writing is featured on the internet journals 3:AM Magazine and Newtopia Magazine. His published work, including Diary Of A Seducer with poems by D.A. Blyler, is available from Art Books International, London. Reichert: The Human Edifice by Mel Gooding, with 100 photographs by the artist in colour, is available from The Photographers Gallery, London and amazon.co.uk.