Gerhard Richter

With a career spanning more than sixty years, the renowned painter Gerhard Richter is one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book celebrates the artist's continued dedication to experimentation and innovation. The Abstract Pictures were created when Richter, a few years ago, poured coloured enamel paints onto a glass plate and allowed them to flow...

Gerhard Richter's newest facsimile-like artist's book is focused on a single work comprising twenty-six drawings in pencil and ink. "[Richter's drawings] are of stringent individuality and recognizably by Richter's hand, not based on their signature style but rather because they make their theme the act of drawing itself, gauging the conditions of drawing." —Dieter Schwarz In this new body of...

An artist's book to accompany Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne exhibition 81 Drawings - 1 STRIP Image - 1 Edition. With this project, Richter explores the significance of the art of drawing in the 21st century as a source of inspiration within the visual arts and questions its role as an existential form of expression of human intellect and its creative...

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue—but things looked... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they’re read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary. That calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control over Die...

On October 5, 2012, the German national newspaper Die Welt published its daily issue — but things looked... different. Quieter. The sensations of the day, forgotten as soon as they're read, were missing, replaced with an unprecedented calm, extracted with care from the chaos of the contemporary. That calm was the work of Gerhard Richter, who had been granted control...

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed December, a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept photographs for the darkest month of the year. In stories drawn from modern history and the contemporary moment, from mythology, and even from meteorology, Kluge toys as...