Gerhard Richter
Subtitle: Paintings from Private Collections
Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH & Co KG; Hatje Cantz
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9783775721370
Subjects: Richter, gerhard, 1932-; Painting, german; Painting, private collections; Painting, exhibitions
Description: Gerhard Richter (*1932) is certainly one of the most important artists of our time. His works are featured in all of the leading museums and collections around the world. Yet these kinds of superlatives hardly do justice to the artist's work. This publication features more than eighty works from first-rate private collections, including the artist's own, and thus provides a concise overview of a career spanning over forty years which not only reflects the history of postwar Germany, but also the medium of painting. Richter's incredibly complex work oscillates between paintings bordering on Photorealism and large, abstract compositions of captivatingly expressive color and technical perfection. Yet his work is always centered on painting itself, which is asserted in many different ways, confidently holding up its own reality for comparison to the actual world.