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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.
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culture · German visual artist (born 1932) · painter · university teacher · visual artist · illustrator · photographer · also Gerhard Richter, Gehede Lixite, Geruharuto Rihitā, Gerd Richter, Richter
Born 9 February 1932 · Q164351
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: Gerhard Richter
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2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Gerhard Richter / edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh ; essays and interviews by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh ... [et al.]
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The Financial Times: Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton review: a provocateur who duels with everyone
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2024· 3 entries
Artnet: Gerhard Richter’s New Sculpture Puts a Fresh Spin on His Iconic ‘Strip Paintings’
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wallpaper: Gerhard Richter unveils new sculpture at Serpentine South
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An edition of the works as prints on metal plate, made and donated by Richter, went on display at the Centre
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2022· 2 entries
Artnet: Germany Is Celebrating Gerhard Richter’s 90th Birthday With a Bonanza of Exhibitions. Here’s What to See
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The Raphael Durazzo Gallery exhibited 2014: 20
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2020· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Gerhard Richter’s Slippery Mystique
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Gerhard Richter established the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation, a non-profit foundation dedicated to preserving his work and making it available for exhibitions
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2018· 1 entry
Awarded European Cultural Award (2018).
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2017· 1 entry
Richter designed the label of the 2015 Chateau Mouton Rothschild's first wine of that year
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2016· 1 entry
Took part in international exhibition Doppelgänger, curators: Sandra Mann, Ichiro Irie, Julia-Constance Dissel, Max Presneill, Torrance Art Museum, California
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2014· 1 entry
Richter created a cycle of four paintings using the Sonderkommando photographs, which were taken in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust, titled Birkenau
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2012· 1 entry
Was asked to design the first page of the German newspaper Die Welt
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2010· 1 entry
The Drawing Center showed Lines which do not exist, a survey of Richter's drawings from 1966 to 2005, including works made using mechanical intervention such as attaching a pencil to an electric hand drill
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2006· 2 entries
An exhibition at the Getty Center connected the landscapes of Richter to the Romantic pictures of Caspar David Friedrich, showing that both artists "used abstraction, expansiveness, and emptiness to express transcendent
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Richter conceived six paintings as a coherent group under the title Cage, named after the American avant-garde composer John Cage
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2005· 1 entry
As an institute of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Arts and Culture Prize of German Catholics (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Cologne (2003).
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Produced several paintings with the same title: Silicate
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2002· 3 entries
A 40-year retrospective of Richter's work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garde
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The same year as his MoMA retrospective, Richter was asked to design a stained glass window in the Cologne Cathedral
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For the Dia Art Foundation, Richter created a glass sculpture in which seven parallel panes of glass refract light and the world beyond, offering altered visions of the exhibition space; Spiegel I (Mirror I) and Spiegel
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2001· 1 entry
Sotheby's sold his Three Candles (1982) for $5
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia (2000).
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1998· 3 entries
At the Art Gallery of Ontario and at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
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Installed a wall piece based on the colours of Germany's flag in the rebuilt Reichstag in Berlin
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Sotheby's sold it in London, where it fetched what was then a record price for Richter, $3
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Moved into a studio designed by architect Thiess Marwede
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1995· 2 entries
The artist marked the 50th anniversary of the allied bombings of his hometown Dresden during the Second World War
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Shown absorbed in the pages of a magazine
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1993· 1 entry
Received a major touring retrospective "Gerhard Richter: Malerei 1962–1993" curated by Kasper König, with a three volume catalogue edited by Benjamin Buchloh
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1990· 2 entries
When the Saint Louis Art Museum circulated Baader-Meinhof (18 October 1977), a show that was later seen at the Lannan Foundation in Marina del Rey, California
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Along with Sol LeWitt and Oswald Mathias Ungers, he created works for the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Düsseldorf
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1989· 1 entry
The Museum Ludwig in Cologne in 1990, and at Dia Art Foundation in New York in 1995
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1988· 1 entry
“I did experience feelings to do with contemplation, remembering, silence, and death.”
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1986· 3 entries
Was followed in 1991 by a retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London
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Richter was asked about his "Monochrome Grey Pictures and Abstract Pictures" and their connection with the artists Yves Klein and Ellsworth Kelly
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Richter received a commission for two large-scale paintings – Victoria I and Victoria II – from the Victoria insurance company in Düsseldorf
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1983· 1 entry
Richter resettled from Düsseldorf to Cologne, where he still lives and works today
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Arnold-Bode-Preis (1982).
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And 1983, Richter made a series of paintings of Candles and Skulls that relate to a longstanding tradition of still life memento mori painting
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1981· 1 entry
For a two-person show with Georg Baselitz in Düsseldorf, Richter produced the first of the monumental transparent mirrors that appear intermittently thereafter in his oeuvre; the mirrors are significantly larger than Ric
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1980· 1 entry
Richter and Isa Genzken were commissioned to design the König-Heinrich-Platz underground station in Duisburg; it was only completed in 1992
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1977· 1 entry
And 1988 respectively; the three portraits titled IG were made in 1993 and depict the artist's second wife, Isa Genzken
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1976· 2 entries
Four large paintings, each titled Seascape, emerged from the Greenland photographs
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Richter first gave the title Abstract Painting to one of his works
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1975· 1 entry
On the occasion of a show in Düsseldorf, Gilbert & George commissioned Richter to make a portrait of them
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1974· 1 entry
And began painting from photographs he took himself
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1972· 3 entries
Richter embarked on a ten-day trip to Greenland
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“I believe I am looking for rightness. My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. In nature everything is always right: the structure is right, the proportions are good, the colours fit the forms. If you imitate that in painting, it becomes false.”
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At the Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst in Utrecht under the title Atlas der Fotos und Skizzen
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1971· 2 entries
Richter's formal arrangement with the dealer came to an end in 1972
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Where he worked as a professor for over 15 years
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1970· 1 entry
And Blinky Palermo jointly submitted designs for the sports facilities for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich
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1969· 1 entry
Richter produced the first of a group of grey monochromes that consist exclusively of the textures resulting from different methods of paint application
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1966· 2 entries
Bruno Bischofberger was the first to show Richter's works outside Germany
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With a small painting entitled 10 Colors
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1963· 1 entry
The artist began his independent series of landscapes in 1968 after his first vacation, an excursion that landed him besotted with the terrain of Corsica
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1950· 1 entry
His application for study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts was rejected as "too bourgeois"
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1948· 1 entry
Finished vocational high school in Zittau and, between 1949 and 1951, successively worked as an apprentice with a sign painter and as a painter
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1943· 1 entry
Hildegard moved the family to Waltersdorf, and was later forced to sell her piano
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-02-09.
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