Gerhard Richter
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Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist born in 1932 who has become one of the most influential contemporary painters through his diverse and experimental approach to art. His work matters because he challenged traditional notions of what painting could be, moving between photorealist styles, abstraction, and conceptual techniques throughout his career.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1932-02-09
- Works
- 126
Top works
- Memorial-Museum-Johann Joachim Winckelmann
- Die erbunwürdigkeit nach dem bürgerlichen gesetzbuch
- Gerhard Richter : the Overpainted Photographs
- Probleme der Proportionalität Zwischen Gesellschaftlichem Arbeitsvermögen und Arbeitsplätzen : (insbesondere in der Volkseigenen Industrie)
- Kunstverein Wolfsburg
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Film & TV
Acting · Dresden, Germany
Known for
- Gerhard — Self2025
- Happy Root From Non-Identity2024
- The Price of Everything2018
- Ulay — Himself2013
- Gerhard Richter Painting — Himself2011
- Gerhard Richter: 4 Decades — Self2005
- Gerhard Richter — Self2003
- Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language — Himself1999
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Gerhard Richter ( German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁt ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.
Richter has been called the "greatest living painter", "the world's most important artist" and the "Picasso of the 21st century".
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1932 births20th-century German male artists20th-century German painters20th-century German photographers20th-century German printmakers21st-century German male artists21st-century German painters21st-century German photographersArtists from DresdenGerhard RichterGerman abstract paintersGerman atheists