Malerei Gerhard Richter Portraits

Gerhard richter has had a long and successful career in the contemporary art world.

Malerei gerhard richter portraits. Gerhard richter s diverse body of work questions broadly held attitudes about the inherent importance of stylistic consistency for an artist. Gerhard richter tisch table 1962. Schmela gave richter his first one man show in dusseldorf in 1964. Born 9 february 1932 is a german visual artist. Gerhard richter 1932 has portrayed himself on various occasions including in two small paintings in 1996. Richter s two portraits of betty his daughter were made in 1977 and 1988 respectively. The three portraits titled ig were made in 1993 and depict the artist s second wife isa genzken.

Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings and also photographs and glass pieces. Notably some of richter s relatives were directly involved in the nazi movement namely his father a schoolteacher and an uncle. Gerhard richter is one of the most important and influential living artists of the post war era. In 1962 richter painted what he considers to be his first mature work tisch table. Take a tour of the first major exhibition of portraits by gerhard richter the grandaddy of contemporary painting. A portrait smeared with lush paint by gerhardt richter in his series of overpainted photographs february 2 1991 at museum morsbroich. Published on the occasion of the exhibition gerhard richter.

Also in 1964 richter painted several portraits of willy schniewind who. 40 years of painting at the museum of modern art new york this publication represents a broad range of gerhard richter s paintings of the last 40 years. In october 2012 richter s abstraktes bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at 34 million 21 million. Lesende 1994 portrays sabine moritz whom richter married in 1995 shown absorbed in the pages of a magazine. Nevertheless richter s self portraits in contrast to his numerous other portraits form an aspect of his rich oeuvre that hitherto has received little attention. In the same year richter painted a full length portrait of arnold bode the influential curator of the documenta 2 exhibition which in 1959 first brought richter s attention to a range of contemporary art. Born in dresden in 1932 gerhard richter came of age after world war ii.

From the 1960s on he has been a formidable force in the art world working with fellow artists sigmar polke georg baselitz and konrad fischer leug veering away form the pop art and performance movements to concentrate on painting.