Gerhard Richter

Person · Open Library

Works

126

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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
• At the Fountainhead (Of German Strength) — Gerhard Langsdorf1980
• Kunst und Ketchup1966

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Country

Germany

Active from

1932

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

144

Total plays

753

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

   · 2009 · cited 18,973x

2. 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

3. 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure

   · 2021 · cited 12,118x

4. 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

5. Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

   · 2013 · cited 8,805x

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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.”

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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

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