
Gerhard RichterDeutschland, 1932Darf man es sehen?
Minneapolis, Vereinigte Staaten
Es gehört zur Sammlung, ist derzeit aber nicht ausgestellt.
German painter and printmaker Gerhard Richter is a leading contemporary artist whose body of work is distinguished for its eclectic range of styles and innovative creative solutions. Working both in abstraction and photorealism, Richter challenges our ideas of representation and illusionistic space by allowing the processes and materials of art to recast and reinterpret the world around us. His abstract work varies from textured monochromatic paintings to heavily layered gestural works executed by drawing a squeegee across the surface of wet paint. Richter’s 2003 screenprint Eis 2 is a characteristic example of the latter approach, here realized as an editioned print.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
11 September 2001
11 September: the flight to New York is diverted to Halifax
Richter was flying to New York on 11 September 2001, but because of the attacks, including on the World Trade Center, his plane was diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia. A few years later he made one small painting specifically about the planes crashing into the towers: “September” (2005).
2002
The retrospective “Forty Years of Painting” at MoMA
In 2002 the Museum of Modern Art in New York holds the retrospective “Forty Years of Painting”: 188 exhibits, an unprecedented number of works by a living artist for that museum.
2003 · Auszeichnung
honorary citizen of Cologne
2004 · Auszeichnung
Arts and Culture Prize of German Catholics
2005
The Gerhard Richter Archive at the Dresden collections
In 2005 the Gerhard Richter Archive is established in cooperation with the artist as an institute of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.