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	Gerhard Richter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gerhard Richter (born February 9, 1932) is a prominent German artist.
		Richter is considered by some critics as one of the most important German artists of the post-WWII period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several million dollars apiece.
		Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in the countryside of Upper Lusatia, in Reichenau and Waltersdorf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gerhard_Richter (1163 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Richter D.O.A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richter once said that his “work has more to do with traditional art than with anything else," but it is clearly not up to the standards of traditional art, nor for that matter of the best photography, traditional or avant-garde.
		Richter's portraits are profoundly nihilistic, like all his work, however glamorous its veneer sometimes is, especially in his Abstract Expressionist works, but also in his color portraits and color landscapes, and however quasi-sexual and pseudo-intimate his content, as in his paintings of nudes and infants.
		Richter is a master at faking it, no doubt because he thinks the world is fake -- a visual as well as cognitive construction, in which the possibility of authenticity is ruled out from the beginning.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/features/kuspit/kuspit2-21-02.asp?C=1 (2388 words)

	Gerhard Richter : Biography
		Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932.
		Richter was influenced by Jean Dubuffet, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Fautrier and the anarchic Fluxus movement, a resurgence of Dada.
		Richter himself said that he wanted to express "the inadequacy in relation to what is expected of painting" through his art, the inadequacy of the making of images and the critical examination of it.
	www.leninimports.com /g_richter_bio.html (1160 words)

	Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The difference is in the larger scale and in the way Richter shifts the image out of focus, producing a somewhat blurred effect, almost as if, perhaps, the camera had moved or the hand slipped in the developing process.
		Richter's father embraced the Nazis and as a result was prevented from continuing his career as a teacher after the war; the clownish portrait has a sad, rather defeated aura to it.
		Richter has developed a technique of applying oil to aluminum panels, utilizing a squeegee to achieve his desired effects, often sensually beautiful.
	www.culturevulture.net /ArtandArch2/Richter.htm (884 words)

	Art/Museums: Gerhard Richter at the Museum of Modern Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richter is as immune to this fetish as he is to the constraints of fashion or the expectations of the avant garde elite.
		Richter uses paint like a genie, his oils achieving magical nuances as they are dragged across complimentary colors on slick aluminum or smudged and smeared in delicate gradations of gray and white tinged with pink or lilac, where Warhol deliberately mechanized and flattened the painterly aspect of his colors through the silkscreen process.
		Richter was caught in the stormy seas of dissension (again), where the prevailing opinion was that painting's "aesthetic reserves were spent." Richter says "I just went on painting." His isolation from the rest of the contemporary art world was tempered by his friendship with Blinky Palermo, replacing the one between Richter and Polke.
	www.thecityreview.com /richter.html (14014 words)

	Gerhard Richter and the Simulacrum
		Richter recognized that criticism of painting and representation could be accomplished through a more direct engagement with technique as profitably as it could through an abandonment of that technique.
		Richter is able to call into question the representation in both the apparently "objective" photo and in his picture.
		For Richter, the appeal of this project was the formal organization of a series of pictures based on the turn of the men's' heads from frontal to three-quarters view in the identically scaled and cropped photos.
	www.heyotwell.com /work/arthistory/Richter.html (3255 words)

	HeadLight Journal >> Gerhard Richter: In Context (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richter like Anselm Keifer, Sigmar Polke, and George Baselitz, other German artists of the same generation, are obsessed with themes of war, strife, and existential angst, but each artist is different: Keifer massive and expressionistic, Polke comical and flashy, Baselitz irrational and upside down, Richter subtle and sedued.
		The painted newspaper, that recorder of history, is blurred and unreadable; Richter’s wife, the reader, is rendered beatifully, yet she too is slightly blurred and seems to fade.
		Richter’s body of work (including the portrait series of Germany’s great thinkers, the terrorist and atlas series, as well as his sublime portraits, still-lifes, and abstract paintings) signifies his true intent: a love for painting.
	www.headlightjournal.com /art-reviews/gerhard-richter/in-context.html (1399 words)

	Gerhard Richter: Atlas Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1964 Gerhard Richter began amassing onto panels photographs he had collected over the previous few years--sometimes as potential sources for his paintings and sometimes on their own account.
		Since then Richter has continued, albeit intermittently, to supplement his "picture album."1 And periodically it has been returned to public view: it was shown in 1976 in Krefeld, 1989 in Munich, and 1990 in Cologne.
		Given that questions of representation lie at the heart of Richter's enterprise, this relationship has inevitably proven a shifting, mutating one--from the early sixties when photography provided motifs for paintings to the past decade when the artist has both overpainted photographs and exhibited as prints photographs of certain paintings originally generated by rephotographed photographs.
	www.diacenter.org /exhibs/richter/atlas/essay.html (1318 words)

	Gerhard Richter
		Richter was to move back and forth between realism and abstraction, but these were not and, at least in his early years in the West, could not have been politically innocent decisions.
		Richter considers it the first work in his catalogue raisonné, which means that he assigns it a significance considerably beyond whatever merits it may possess as a painting.
		Richter was an adolescent in 1945, and lived with his family within earshot of Dresden at the time of the massive firebombings of that year.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/R/richter.html (2972 words)

	The New York Review of Books: The Master of the Blur
		Richter's genius was to see that, as he began showing in the early 1960s, the "passivity" that be sought could come from basing his paintings on photographs.
		Richter's photo paintings are out of focus, literally and in the poetic sense of conveying something lost, inept, and ungraspable; and this sense of a blur may be his most tangible contribution to painting.
		Richter, whose mother's father was a concert pianist and who refers to music a number of times in his notes and interviews, works in a musical way here.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/15242 (3056 words)

	kitsch parade :: gerhard richter : forty years of painting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Here Richter returns to monochrome photorealism to discuss specific sociopolitical issues; also, he again focuses on the German history/world history using appropriated photos, this time in the mode of classical history painting, a "lapsed genre" in the twentieth century.
		Richter holds himself to a ridiculous standard of classical quality, and destroys work less than perfect: all but two have been skimmed or scored by a blade.
		Richter's production is extraordinarily complex and, granted, is hard to organize into any reasonable scheme, however grouping by chronology is unreasonably and artificially conditional, and makes the exhibition significantly harder to grasp.
	kitschparade.ath.cx /wri/richter.phtml (1934 words)

	Cultureflux Views: Painting: Alive and Kicking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gerhard Richter’s amazingly successful new exhibit plus a couple of lesser-known artists challenge critics who say that painting is dead.
		But Richter is not only a painter in an era forced to focus on video artists, performance stars, and Photoshop wonders, he also wanders from style to style with an ease and speed that makes this exhibition a lesson on half a dozen art movements.
		Like Richter, by continuing to explore ways to paint their passions and obsessions, Goslee and Springfield share an inner fire that forces them to want to paint such disparate subjects as the carnal nature of forms and an infatuation with ticket stubs or fortune cookies.
	www.cultureflux.com /April03/richter.html (1143 words)

	Gerhard Richter (1932 - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Richter is known for versatility, superior handling of his technique, and his influence on modern German art.
		Gerhard Marcks, Orpheus in der Unterwelt (Orpheus in the Underworld), 1947
		Gerhard Richter is a master of the underplayed.
	wwar.com /masters/r/richter-gerhard.html (1658 words)

	Gerhard Richter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Sculptures 1962–1993, 3 vols.
		Buchloh, Benjamin H. "Gerhard Richter's Eight Gray: Between Vorschein and Glanz." In Gerhard Richter: Eight Gray 2002.
		Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932.
	www.diabeacon.org /exhibs_b/richter (254 words)

	Gerhard Richter Biography
		In 1967 Richter became guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg and in 1971 he was offered a chair at the Academy of Arts in Duesseldorf, which he held until 1996.
		In 1976 Richter started to do abstract pictures with coloured streaks, but nevertheless returned to representationalism again and again and turned the alternation between techniques of representation and stylistic incongruity into a principle.
		Today Gerhard Richter is regarded as one of the internationally best known and most successful contemporary artists, whose works are appreciated by a wide audience on numerous exhibitions.
	www.richtergerhard.com (372 words)

	Gerhard Richter
		Gerhard Richter (1932 -) was born in Dresden, Germany and was raised in the countryside, in Reichenau and Waltersdorf.
		During his period, Richter was influenced by Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier and the anarchic Fluxus movement, a resurgence of Dada.
		This Richter is in a 26 5 /8" x 32 1/4" burl veneer frame with a matching wood fillet.
	www.annalies.com /New_Works/Gerhard_Richter/gerhard_richter.html (362 words)

	Gerhard Richter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richter, however, has rendered his variant as if it were out of focus.
		Richter's homage to the sixteenth-century virtuoso follows Titian's own practice, late in his career, of rendering form through color and increasingly abstract, feathery brushstrokes.
		Gerhard Richter, 10 october 1999- (end of) January 2000, ill. p.
	hirshhorn.si.edu /collection/gallery/richter.html (280 words)

	Does Gerhard Richter contain multitudes? By Daniel Kunitz
		Toward the end of the Gerhard Richter retrospective at MoMA—one of the largest the museum has ever devoted to a contemporary artist—there's an untypical work that nevertheless suggests a metaphor for his career.
		At 70, Richter comes with a CV replete with all the Cold War horrors and tensions: Nazis in the family, forced participation in Hitler Youth, an East German childhood, flight to the West.
		Richter's grade inflation is troubling because such overstatement draws attention away from the apparently outmoded gift Richter gives to his audience—the pleasures of looking at a painted image.
	www.slate.com /?id=2063269 (944 words)

	handprint : gerhard richter
		The variety and coherence of the painting are wonderful to explore with an eye both to the sensual joy of the image and the range of techniques used to create it.
		Richter has settled into using the quarter sheet format, but intensifies the visual and technical complexity of the designs within it.
		The only available collection, with an interview of Gerhard Richter on his watercolor development, is the museum catalog from the 1999 exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur: Gerhard Richter Aquarelle / Watercolors 1964-1997 edited by Dieter Schwartz (Richter Verlag, 1999).
	www.handprint.com /HP/WCL/artist40.html (799 words)

	SFMOMA \| Exhibitions \| Exhibition Overview: Gerhard Richter
		Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting presents a full-scale survey of paintings by the influential German artist Gerhard Richter.
		Richter's body of work calls into question many widely held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency, the "organic" evolution of individual artistic sensibility, the spontaneous nature of creativity, and the relationships of technology and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats.
		Many of Richter's artistic choices result from his working in a politically divided postwar Germany that was actively seeking to regain and renew modernist practices that had been suppressed during the Third Reich.
	www.sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail.asp?id=86 (1167 words)

	Handbook:Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The artistic production of Gerhard Richter falls into three broad categories: figurative, that is, all the paintings based on photography or nature; constructive, more theoretical work such as color charts, greys, glass panes, and mirrors; and abstract, most of the work since 1976 except for still-lifes and landscapes.
		Richter's main sources for his figurative work of the 1960s were ordinary fl-and-white family snapshots or pictures appropriated from the media.
		Richter then applies an overlay of paint, which is brushed, dragged, squeegeed, or streaked in aggressive colors.
	www.museum.cornell.edu /HFJ/handbook/hb159.html (253 words)

	Press Release
		Richter’s youth in and around his birth city of Dresden coincided with the rise and fall of the Third Reich and the traumas of World War II; his father and two uncles were mobilized after the outbreak of war.
		Richter placed tragedy and death in both cultural and personal contexts with “Woman with Umbrella,” 1964, which isolates the grieving figure of Jacqueline Kennedy, and “Uncle Rudi,” 1965, a depiction of the artist’s smiling uncle in his Nazi uniform.
		More recent portraits of Richter’s family, such as the tender profile view of his wife, Sabine, in “Reader,” 1994, have been described as having an intimacy and mystery comparable to the paintings of Vermeer.
	hirshhorn.si.edu /museum/press_release.asp?ID=34 (977 words)

	Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
		Gerhard Richter — Atlas goes to the heart of the artist’s work, showing over 5,000 photographs, drawings and diagrams he has compiled or created over 40 years.
		Gerhard Richter is also renowned for his engagement with abstraction.
		Gerhard Richter - Atlas maps the ideas, processes, life and times of one of the most important painters of the late 20th Century.
	www.whitechapel.org /content617.html (439 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Kunst Fest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Richter wants to paint the history of his time; he uses magazine clippings and family snapshots as sources.
		Richter is one of many artists to evolve a strategy for getting publicity, controlling much of what is said about him, and still protecting himself.
		Richter speaks for 771 lines or barely 51 percent of the interview and Storr talks for 752 lines for 49 percent-plus.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/reviews/cassidy/cassidy8-7-02.asp (1424 words)

	Haber's Art Reviews: Gerhard Richter and Roy Lichtenstein
		The master of postmodern irony, Gerhard Richter, retraced his own career in a compact gallery exhibition, and Roy Lichtenstein took up his cartoons and pretend brushstrokes.
		Gerhard Richter has a decided virtuosity, the skill of an artist equally at home in photorealism and abstraction.
		Gerhard Richter ran through October 27, 2001, at Marian Goodman, and my approach to him, thanks to a museum retrospective, continues here.
	www.haberarts.com /richter.htm (1462 words)

	The Work of Gerhard Richter - Contemporary Art Centre of Malaga - Absolutearts.com
		On 16 January the CAC Malaga is presenting a retrospective exhibition shown for the first time in Spain and devoted to the work of Gerhard Richter, considered by many to be the most important artist of the second half of the 20th century.
		In each one Richter reveals his virtuoso abilities with regard to a pictorial language which he uses in an extraordinary manner to work in a wide range of different genres such as landscape, the portrait and geometrical compositions.
		Richter’s interest in colour is evident in paintings such as Ausschnitt (Detail, 1971), based on the amplification of the chromatic combinations of the oil paint on the artist’s palette, and Grau (Grey, 1976).
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2004/01/16/31720.html (995 words)

	The New York Times > Arts > Art & Design > Gerhard Richter Goes to War
		Richter, 72 and perhaps the most influential painter in the world, has returned to a political theme with "War Cut." Typically indirect and multilayered, it takes the form of an illustrated book.
		Richter's 1987 painting "No. 648-2," accompanied by an equal number of newspaper articles from The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on March 20 and 21, 2003, the beginning days of the war.
		Richter's Cologne studio by Jan Thorn-Prikker, a freelance critic and the editor of Kulturjournal, a cultural magazine of the Goethe Institute in Munich.
	www.nytimes.com /2004/07/04/arts/design/04THOR.html?ex=1246680000&en=469bdcc63ddefc46&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland (772 words)

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