One of the world’s most famous personalities from the world of painting in a high-quality publication with large format and exclusive soft cover on fi ne cardboard with foil stamping
Key works from New York, Budapest and Ghent presented for the master artist’s 85th birthday
Sheds new light on Richter’s early creative years, which provide a key to the understanding of his entire oeuvre
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Gerhard Richter
About Painting
Gerhard Richter (*1932) is an exceptional personality – not because his pictures are world famous, but because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His art masterfully moves between abstraction and representation, sensuousness and denial – ambivalent attitudes which he demonstrated even in his early work.
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Gerhard Richter’s oeuvre overcomes the division between abstract and representational art. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colours and forms nor do they deliver an intact picture of reality. Richter is a sceptical artist who questions the reality of his art even when the prime subject of his paintings is the tangible. This applies in particular to his door, curtain and window pictures of the 1960s, which form the central focus of this volume. They stage a playful examination of the illusory nature of art, which always questions what painting shows or conceals. In this lavishly appointed volume they encounter central works from the artist’s last 15 years.
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With contributions by Stephan Berg, Martin Germann, Christoph Schreier
128 pages, 68 illustrations in colour
24 × 32 cm, softcover
128 pages, 68 illustrations in colour
24 × 32 cm, softcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-2894-9
Keywords
Expressionism, painting, abstraction
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