64. GERHARD RICHTER
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Sinbad
2008 30 cm x 24 cm Catalogue
Raisonné: 905-2
Lacquer
on back of glass
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Colour Streaks
1968 50 cm x 40 cm Catalogue
Raisonné: 194-4
Oil on
canvas
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Abstract Painting
2005 113.5 cm x 72 cm Catalogue
Raisonné: 891-3
Oil on
canvas
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BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1932 in Dresden, Weimar Republic ( Germany)
Nowadays:
Education:
He left
school after 10th grade and apprenticed as an advertising and stage-set
painter, before studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1948, he
finished higher professional school in Zittau, and, between 1949 and 1951,
successively worked as an apprentice with a sign painter and as a painter.[9]
In 1950, his application for study at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts was
rejected as "too bourgeois".[9] He finally began his studies at the
Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in 1951. His teachers were Karl von Appen, Heinz
Lohmar (de) and Will Grohmann.
Themes and
style:
Nearly
all of Richter's work demonstrates both illusionistic space that seems natural
and the physical activity and material of painting—as mutual interferences. For
Richter, reality is the combination of new attempts to understand—to represent;
in his case, to paint—the world surrounding us. one of the pioneers of the New
European Painting that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century.
Techniques:
Richter has
produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and
glass pieces.
Exhibitions
Richter
first began exhibiting in Düsseldorf in 1963. Richter had his first gallery
solo show in 1964 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. Soon after, he had
exhibitions in Munich and Berlin and by the early 1970s exhibited frequently
throughout Europe and the United States. In 1966, Bruno Bischofberger was the
first to show Richter's works outside Germany.
Some selected solo exhibitions are:
Gerhard
Richter 4900 Colours: Version II at the Serpentine Gallery, London, United
Kingdom. 2008
Gerhard
Richter Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
2009
Gerhard
Richter: Panorama at the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. 2011
Gerhard
Richter at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. 2012
Gerhard
Richter: Panorama at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany. 2012
In his own words:
“I looked at the world around me, and [in
1974] everything seemed terrible and senseless. German culture was utterly
broken. So I decided to create those gray paintings to acknowledge that. After
that I started building [German culture] back up by creating some sort of
beauty that could be physically seen: art. I think of these new grays as, not
fun, but definitely more on the happier side. These new ones are absolute
perfection. I put them behind such perfect glass to play with the idea of
mirrors and reflection.”
Representative
Galleries:
Gagosian
Maria Goodman
Dominique Levi
For
more Information:
http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/gerhard-richter-panorama
http://www.wsj.com/articles/gerhard-richter-at-82-art-is-still-sublime-1413395231