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Gerhard Richter
- about the artist -


Gerhard Richter was born 1932, Waltersdorf, Oberlausitz, Germany - lives in Cologne, Germany

• 1952-1957 Dresden School of Visual Arts, East Germany

• 1961 enrolled at the Düsseldorf Academy, Germany

• 1971 professor at the Düsseldorf Academy, Germany

Beside his paintings in the style of abstract expressionism Gerhard Richter is also international recognized for his series of 'out of focus' paraphrases' of famous paintings, historical figures or everyday's objects. In 1968 he expanded his repertoire to include cityscapes, landscapes, and cloud formations. In my homage website I try to show in specific the images of Richter's work blending his obsessions: pure abstraction and photorealism.


One of Richter's quotations:

 

 "abstract paintings are fictitious models, because they visualize a reality which we can neither see nor describe but which we may nevertheless conclude to exist. we attach negative names to this reality: the un-known, the un-graspable, the in-finite and for thousands of years we have depicted it in terms of substitute images like heaven and hell, gods and devils. with abstract painting we created a better means of approaching what can be neither seen nor understood, because abstract painting illustrates with the greatest clarity, that is to say, with all the means at the disposal of art, 'nothing'. .... this is not an artful game, it is a necessity; since everything unknown frightens us and fills us with hope at the same time, we take these images as a possible explanation of the inexplicable or at least as a way of dealing with it."

  

selected bibliography:

• The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings 1962-1993,
by Gerhard Richter
© of the English edition and translation by
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London;
ISBN 0-500-27836-9


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