History & Criticism - General & Miscellaneous Photography, German Art, Modern Art, General & Miscellaneous Painting Techniques, Art of the 1980s and 1990s

Gerhard Richter

Name: Gerhard Richter
Author: Sean Et Al Rainbird, Judith Severne
ISBN: 9781854370846

by Sean Et Al Rainbird, Judith Severne

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Artwork by Gerhard Richter.

About the Author, Sean Et Al Rainbird, Judith Severne

Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Since the early 1960s he has emerged as one of the essential painters of the postwar period, pioneering photorealism with paintings made from found photographs (amateur snapshots, advertisements and book and magazine illustrations) and then from his own photographs. His work has also profoundly engaged with and influenced such genres as Pop and abstract art. A retrospective of Richter's work was shown in 2001 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition was one of the largest ever organized there for a living artist, and traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.