Gerhard Richter DE, 1932
Gerhard Richter is known for a prolific and stylistically varied exploration of the medium of painting, often incorporating and exploring the visual effects of photography. "Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense". He also says, "art is the highest form of hope."
In the early 1960s, Richter began to create large-scale photorealist copies of black-and-white photographs rendered in a range of grays, and innovated a blurred effect (sometimes deemed "photographic impressionism") in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened-paradoxically reproducing photographic effects and revealing his painterly hand. With heavily textured abstract gray monochromes, Richter introduced abstraction into his practice, and he has continued to move freely between figuration and abstraction, producing geometric "Colour Charts", bold, gestural abstractions, and "Photo Paintings" of anything from nudes, flowers, and cars to landscapes, architecture, and scenes from Nazi history. Richter absorbed a range of influences, from Caspar David Friedrich and Roy Lichtenstein to Art Informel and Fluxus.
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Gerhard RichterCage (P19-3), 2020Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel
100 × 100 cm (39 2/5 × 39 2/5 in)Edition of 200 -
Gerhard RichterCage P19-5, 2020Diasec-mounted Giclée print on aluminium composite panel
Numbered and labelled, on verso
100 x 100 cmEdition of 200 -
Gerhard RichterFlow – P16, 2016Diasec-mounted chromogenic print on aluminium composite panel
Numbered on the reverse in black marker100 x 200 cm500 + 2 AP -
Gerhard RichterAladin [P11], 2014Chromogenic print mounted with Diasec on aluminium, rotated by 180˚
37 x 50 cmEdition of 500 -
Gerhard RichterP2 Haggadah, 2014Chromogenic print mounted on aluminium100 x 100 cm
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Gerhard RichterSeestück (bewölkt), 1969-2023Hybrid print in five colours on 260g Rives handmade paper
Accompanied by the publisher's certificate of authenticity70 x 70 cmEdition of 500 -
Gerhard RichterVierwaldstätter See, 1969-20235-colour hybrid print on 260g Rives handmade paper
Publisher's COA included100 x 70 cmEdition of 500