Artist: Gerhard Richter(1932 - ) Nationality: German
Movement: Abstract Art
Media: Painting
Influences:
Biography: Born and trained in Dresden, Gerhard Richter began designing stage sets and working in advertising before becoming a professional artist. In 1962, he began producing paintings inspired by blurry photographs, often times in series that explore the difference between figurative and abstraction. In his later work, he painted very large-scale, completely abstract pieces. Richter is known for versatility, superior handling of his technique, and his influence on modern German art.
Artworks in Museum Collections: (60) Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Gerhard Richter.
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ARKEN Museum of Modern Art: Gerhard Richter: Oil Painting and Photography Gerhard Richter is a master of the underplayed. The
German artist's portraits and landscapes are out of focus
and hazy, the colours are reduced to shades of grey or kept
in balanced ranges of colour. The works possess a
melancholy ...
Museum of Modern Art: Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting Although Richter has been a well-known and greatly respected figure in Europe for many years, his achievement has been comparatively slow to come to the attention of the general public in the United States.
Ranging from photography-based pictu...
Modern Museum: In the Power of Painting One common source for Warhol, Polke and Richter is both the thing as an
object and images in the media. Twombly and Marden have a more abstract
point of departure, gradually producing something like a sign. Bleckner's
work seems to emerge from his...
Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Gerhard Richter: Eight Gray Consisting of eight enameled glass panels, Eight Gray addresses themes the artist has been investigating since the mid-1960s in his monochromes and works in glass. Mounted on steel supports and hanging 50 centimeters from the wall, the enormous pa...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The
Museum of Modern Art
Organized thematically, the exhibition addresses some of the prevailing
subjects that preoccupied Pop artists, including mass media, consumer culture, politics, and erotica. The
exhibition begins with proto-Pop examples by artists such as Ja...
Haus der Kunst: Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings The series "Cage" from 2006 and "Wald" (Forest) from 2005 - the latter on view for the first time in Europe - serve as the show's point of departure. The exhibition traces Richter's artistic development - represented in these series - to its roots...
Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga: The Work of Gerhard Richter Within the present exhibition, the emphasis is on Richter’s paintings based on photographs, his pure paintings, his famous grisailles and in particular the abstract expressionist works. In each one Richter reveals his virtuoso abilities with regar...
Dia Center for the Arts: Refraction: Selected Works by Gerhard Richter, and Project: Jorge Pardo's 2000 Denovation Richter's works include a new glass sculpture, created
especially for this exhibition, in which seven parallel panes of
glass refract light and the world beyond, offering altered
visions of the exhibition space; "Spiegel I (Mirror I)" and
"Spi...
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston: The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art The exhibition features twenty-nine works created between 1970 and 2001 that capture the viewer's attention in a variety of ways.
From perceptual work like that of Charles Ray or James Turrell that allows us to see ourselves seeing, to ...
Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery: Europe's Most Acclaimed Artists: Wim Delvoye and Daniel Richter Belgian artist Wim Delvoye’s engaging sculpture Cloaca – New & Improved addresses a number of cultural taboos while challenging viewers to consider society's discomfort with digestive functions and to question the elaborate cultural mechanisms con...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Sigmar Polke: Music of Unclear Origin This exhibition, toured by the Institute for Foreign
Cultural Relations in Stuttgart, presents a group of forty
recent gouaches that form a distinct and lively series. This
...
Juan Miro Foundation: Reality and Desire The exhibition begins with works by Gerhard Richter (Germany) and Vija Celmins, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Sigmar Polka: Alhemist However, Louisiana does not plan its exhibitions according to Capitals art
compass. The museum has its own instruments of navigation, but on these,
too, the needles have been pointing to Sigmar P...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art ...
Alexander Ochs Galleries Berlin Beijing: Asia:The Place to Be From the Westen point of view, this historical pragmatism seems to be extremely strange. Though artists who partly lived the terror of the cultural revolution found another way to express the progressive distancing look back. Under the ´Mao-Pop´ l...
Tosari Galleries: Fleures et Femmes : Trisha Lambi and Nikki Porter Artist: Trisha Lambi Title: Modern Day Pieta Year Created: 2009 Medium: Painting Oil Width: 100 cm Height: 100 cm Depth: 4...
Ketterer Kunst: Perspective 45/01 - Contemporary Classics to be held in Berlin The future is the present – this was the motto that Ketterer Kunst adopted when it started its involvement in Berlin back in 1997. Which other city in Germany - or even in Europe - would be more suitable for the auctioning of contemporary artNULL ...
Laura Bartlett Gallery: The Observatory Vol. II: Harrell Fletcher, Mischa Richter, Gen Sasaki, David Estes and Lenka Clayton The four short films, People in Order, in collaboration with filmmaker James Price, is both an unusual insight into how people seek to present themselves and an artists' attempt to chart and make tangible human experience through the grouping of r...
Leeds City Art Gallery: The Triumph of Painting: From the Saatchi Collection The Triumph of Painting showcases an international line-up of contemporary painters and sets out to show how today’s artists, and audiences, can still be intellectually and emotionally engaged by a form of art – painting – often declared defunct a...
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Out of the Box: 20th-Century Print Portfolios Eleven complete print portfolios from the permanent collection provide
visitors with a rare opportunity to see the creative statement of each
featured artist in its ...
Ulatis Cultural Center: Roz Zinns: Colors Abound Roz Zinns has always had a love of the land which is evident in her work. Although she is currently focusing on California landscapes, she is finding that the compositional element of land in an urban environment has become a fascinating study for...
SOMArts Cultural Center: Corrections - Some Magic... and some Truth
Summary
As artists, we cant raise money the way musicians can, but we can raise awareness and focus. This one exhibit wont change the world, but at least we artists can stand together and hopefully get some attention paid to what wed like...
Art History Museum: Cypriot Art from the Collection of Classical Antiquities
The Kunsthistorisches Museum’s collection
of Cypriot art contains over 700 objects
dating from the early Bronze Age to the
Roman Empire, it is thus one of the largest
...
Arciconfraternita dell'Assunta: The Art is the Prayer: Setyo Mardiyantoro and Vincenzo Montella Roherssen recently passed away gave his contribute to the show with his work "Peace" expressly executed.
Each artist was asked to create a new image that freely interpret the theme.
Further information about Setyo Mardiyantoro could be fou...
Complesso Monumentale Belvedere di San Leucio: Selin Melek Aktan : Human Rights Exhibition IMAGE
Artist: Selin Melek Aktan
Title: Hugging You
Year Created: 2007
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 100 cm
Height: 100 cm
Depth: 3 cm
Price: US$ 3,000 Pharmaka: Dear Mr. Saltz: Photography in Painting The article, as one might expect, provoked heated discussions within artist communities in regards
to the meaning of painting and representation in an age of mass media visual saturation. Conversely,
Mr. Saltz then calls for the „celebration of ...
Broadway Gallery: Lure: Michel Beaucage, Arvee, Destroy Be, Sandro Bisonni, Monika Iatrou, Freddy Flores Knistoff, Béatrice Englert, Ko Bhamra, and Jane McAdam Freud Exploring the semantics of desire as fascination, attraction and repulsion, the exhibition presents a space in which to investigate the concept of “the other.” Through this semantic play, representations of “the other” are not fixed or anchored in...
Gallery Aferro: The Very First Aferro Benefit IMAGE
Artist: Ellen Jantzen
Title: Blind Howl
Year Created: 2008
Medium: Photography Other
Width: 24 inches
Height: 18 inches
Edition Size: 10
Price: US$ 1500 Phoenix Art Museum: Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection This exhibition has been organized by the Portland Art Museum and is made possible by UBS. One of the foremost collections of contemporary art in the United States, The UBS Art Collection, formerly The PaineWebber Art Collection, began in 1971 wi...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century Many of these works have only just been
acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first
time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues
...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Sala Barna: Richard Solstjarna: The Gossamer Lightness of a Gesture Stig-Ake Stalnacke continues, "A painter of that kind discards a thousand pictures and saves but one.
He must forever seek that picture – and only the one – that feels authentic,
that exudes vibrancy, vitality, and possesses SPIRIT.
"And n...
Museum Alfons Blomme: Shine : Svein Koningen and Jan Duytschaever IMAGE
Artist: Svein Koningen
Title: Marilyn 1
Year Created: 2009
Medium: Painting Acrylic
Width: 47.3 inches
Height: 47.3 inches
Depth: 2 inches
Price: US$ 6,200 Kunstmuseum, Bonn: ELLSWORTH KELLY: The Early Drawings 1948-1955 The basis for his artistic production,
which ensured his later reputation,
was laid down during his 7-year stay
...
National Association of Women Artists: Cassandra Gordon-Harris to Exhibit at Spring into Summer First founded in 1889, the mission of the National Association of Women Artists (N.A.W.A.) is to promote women artists with the goal of attaining full recognition of the scope of their achievements. Through its exhibitions, programs and archives,...
Kröller-Müller Museum: Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000 This most comprehensive Dan Graham retrospective hitherto presents a wide range of his rich
and surprising output. Approximately sixty works will reflect every facet of his oeuvre:
phot...
Stedelijk Museum: The Best Designed Books 2006 Included in the selection are Perfect Day en andere popverhalen by Joost Zwagerman (Studio Ron van Roon, Jaap Meijer and Nico Richter), Altijd Vandaag by Esther Jansma (Marjo Starink, Steven van der Gaauw) and Marnix Goossens. Deep Light (COMA). ...
Wexner Center for the Arts: As Painting: Division and Displacement As painting
Organized by the Wexner Center and guest curated by OSU professors Philip Armstrong (Division of Comparative Studies), Laura Lisbon (Department of Art), and Stephen Melville (Department of History of Art), the wide-ranging exhibiti...
GEM, Museum of Contemporary Art: Leopold Rabus Rabus takes local traditions and customs as his point of reference, and
depicts them as something to laugh at. His rendering of a hunting scene, for
example, is not a heroic scene but a tragicomic spectacle of two ugly hunters
with horns and gu...
Kröller-Müller Museum: Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000
