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Gerhard Richter
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German visual artist (b. 1932)
OverviewAI-generated
Gerhard Richter is a German painter, visual artist, illustrator, and university teacher. Born on February 9, 1932, in Dresden, he has worked in various locations including Dresden, Cologne, Paris, and Düsseldorf. His artistic practice encompasses abstract art, installation art, portrait, and animal painting. A notable work by Richter is *Cathedral Window*. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and speaks German.
Richter has participated in Documenta 5, documenta 7, documenta 8, and Documenta IX. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His published works include *Memorial-Museum-Johann Joachim Winckelmann*, *Die erbunwürdigkeit nach dem bürgerlichen gesetzbuch*, *Gerhard Richter : the Overpainted Photographs*, *Kunstverein Wolfsburg*, and *Thought-Images*.
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Person · Open Library
- 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
via Open Library + Wikidata
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
- At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength) — Gerhard Langsdorf1980
- Kunst und Ketchup1966
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 144
- Total plays
- 753
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
· 2009 · cited 18,973x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,118x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,260x
- Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer
· 2013 · cited 8,805x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.”
- “Since there is no such thing as absolute rightness and truth, we always pursue the artificial, leading, human truth. We judge and make a truth that excludes other truths. Art plays a formative part in this manufacture of truth.”
- “Contact with like-minded painters – a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by talking them through. Shutting myself away in the country, for instance, would do nothing for me. One depends on one's surroundings. And so the exchange with other artists – and especially the collaboration with Lueg and Polke – matters a lot to me: it is part of the input that I need.”
- “Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness.”
- “I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information.”
- “As far as the surface is concerned – oil on canvas, conventionally applied – my pictures have little to do with the original photograph. They are totally painting (whatever that may mean). On the other hand, they are so like the photograph that the thing that distinguished the photograph from all other pictures remains intact.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1932-02-09 ) 9 February 1932 (age 94) , Dresden , Germany
- Education
- Dresden Art Academy , Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Known for
- Painting
- Movement
- abstract art , photo realism , conceptual art , capitalist realism
- Website
- www .gerhard-richter .com
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gerhard Richter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.