How old is Gerhard Richter?
Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʀɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces.
How much is a Richter painting worth?
Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. In October 2012, Richter’s Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at $34 million (£21 million).
What did Max Richter do in the 1960s?
In 1963, together with Polke, Lueg, and Kuttner, Richter founded the Capitalist Realism group, whose works came to be known as German Pop Art. During this period, Richter created paintings that were based on photographs he collected, such as Party (1963) and Women Descending the Staircase (1965).
When did Richter paint the Baader-Meinhof?
In the late 1980s, Richter took on the controversial subject of the deaths of the leaders of the German terrorist group, Baader-Meinhof, in the series 18 Oktober 1977. The paintings were based on published photographs, to which he later applied different painterly effects that obscured the images, as in Funeral (1988).
Gerhard Richter ( German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces.
Where can I See Gerhard Richter’s work in Australia?
The first major exhibition of his work in Australia, Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images, was mounted by the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane from 14 October 2017 to 4 February 2018.
When was Gerhard Richter’s Malerei retrospective?
In 1993, he received a major touring retrospective “Gerhard Richter: Malerei 1962–1993” curated by Kasper König, with a three volume catalogue edited by Benjamin Buchloh. This exhibition containing 130 works carried out over the course of thirty years, was to entirely reinvent Richter’s career.