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"With a career spanning nearly six decades, Gerhard RICHTER is widely considered one of the greatest artists of our time. Continuing artists’ work surveys - BEUYS, TWOMBLY -, this volume presents a representative overview of his painterly oeuvre." (publisher's note, © Schirmer / Mosel, 2019)
"Gerhard RICHTER is not only the currently most highly endowed painter, but also the world's best-known contemporary painter. Since 1961, when he left his native city of Dresden and the GDR art scene and moved to Düsseldorf, his art has always been surprising Twists taken and new directions taken.
Apparently arbitrarily he changed technique, style and motives in his painting. His comprehensive as well as complex oeuvre includes both the examination of the classical genres of painting - landscape, still life and portraiture - as well as almost all avant-garde currents of the late 20th century: photorealism, monochrome, concept art and strong abstractions in large format.
Irritatingly diverse, but always fascinating and at the highest level, Gerhard RICHTER's oeuvre reflects the contradictions and self-doubts of an artist's existence in times of the much-vaunted end of painting, in that it constantly opens up new territories to painting.
The volume 'Life and Work: Thought is painting when painting' contains a representative selection of Gerhard RICHTER's most important works from more than six decades. On the one hand, it is independent of the contingencies of the exhibition industry with its fragmentary catalog publications and does not escape the aesthetic judgment, as do the directories of works, which are bound by the principle of the completeness of the inventory.
The submitted review of Gerhard RICHTER follows the works of Joseph Beuys and Cy Twombly.
Armin Zweite, long-time director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and friend and former patron of the artist, has written the introductory text for art studies and is also responsible for selecting the works." (freely ranslated publisher's text, © Schirmer / Mosel, 2019)
About the artist, Gerhard RICHTER (b.1932 in Dresden):
Gerhard RICHTER lives and works in Cologne.
"Gerhard RICHTER is not only the currently most highly endowed painter, but also the world's best-known contemporary painter. Since 1961, when he left his native city of Dresden and the GDR art scene and moved to Düsseldorf, his art has always been surprising Twists taken and new directions taken.
Apparently arbitrarily he changed technique, style and motives in his painting. His comprehensive as well as complex oeuvre includes both the examination of the classical genres of painting - landscape, still life and portraiture - as well as almost all avant-garde currents of the late 20th century: photorealism, monochrome, concept art and strong abstractions in large format.
Irritatingly diverse, but always fascinating and at the highest level, Gerhard RICHTER's oeuvre reflects the contradictions and self-doubts of an artist's existence in times of the much-vaunted end of painting, in that it constantly opens up new territories to painting.
The volume 'Life and Work: Thought is painting when painting' contains a representative selection of Gerhard RICHTER's most important works from more than six decades. On the one hand, it is independent of the contingencies of the exhibition industry with its fragmentary catalog publications and does not escape the aesthetic judgment, as do the directories of works, which are bound by the principle of the completeness of the inventory.
The submitted review of Gerhard RICHTER follows the works of Joseph Beuys and Cy Twombly.
Armin Zweite, long-time director of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen and friend and former patron of the artist, has written the introductory text for art studies and is also responsible for selecting the works." (freely ranslated publisher's text, © Schirmer / Mosel, 2019)
About the artist, Gerhard RICHTER (b.1932 in Dresden):
Gerhard RICHTER lives and works in Cologne.
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Armin Zweite
- Format
- GERMAN ED.! Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36,5 cm., 480 S., 419 Farb-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY! Ausgabe.