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Copyright the artist | | | Richter, Gerhard (1932 - ) Germany
Abstraktes Bild (Nº 635), 1987
Oil on canvas; 260 x 400 cm 80's
UID 102-483
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Biography
East German painter, born in Dresden. 1951-56 Studied at the Kunstakademie Dresden. Trained as a Social Realist, he found, after moving to the West, that he could make challenging work and still maintain his sense of craft by painting photographs. In 1961, moved to Düsseldorf, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1961-63. In 1964 painted his first pictures based on magazine photographs and snapshots. Later, in 1968, he began a series of large-format abstract paintings with great intensity of colour. Concurrently he also painted conventional looking landscapes that were self-evidently photographic in origin. The extreme variety of Richter's work left him open to criticism, but his rejection of an artificially maintained consistency of style was a conscious conceptual act that allowed him to investigate freely the basic principles of painting. In 1991, important retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London and in 1993 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and in the Kunst und Austellungshalle des Bundersrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, in 1993-94. 1997 Participation in "Documenta" 5.
Exhibitions
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Exposition Inaugurale (Fréjus) Musée Temporaire, France 11-07-1989 ~ 10-09-1989
Gerhard Richter Multiplicata / Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, France 19-03-1988 ~ 23-04-1988
Face - a - Face Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001
Abstrakt: Gerhard Richter - Rui Toscano Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-03-2006 ~ 30-04-2006
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
Gerhard Richter "Abstract Paintings" Museum Ludwig, Germany 18-10-2008 ~ 02-02-2009
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Observers Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 14-02-2011 ~ 29-05-2011
Bibliography
Exposition Inaugurale, 1989 Published by Musée Temporaire
Gerhard Richter, 1998 Published by Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert
Gerhard Richter, Catalogue Raisonné, 1993 Published by MAM de la Ville de Paris
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, 1998
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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