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Many-colored Glass.(Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke)
By the lights of many in the international art world, Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke are the leading painters of our day, though it's hard to find anyone who will declare them equally great. (I'm an exception.) Their careers are intertwined by biography and circumstance. Both are from the former East Germany: Polke, who is sixty-seven, left with his family when he was twelve; Richter, seventy-six, fled, after fitful success in state-run art programs, in 1961, just before the Wall went up. They met at the seminal Dusseldorf Art Academy and, in 1963, collaborated in a brief, trenchant movement that responded to American Pop art with painted imagery drawn from magazine and ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Storr, Robert January 1, 2002 700+ words
Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter came of age after World War IL In the...Sue Taylor--deal with aspects of Richter's early years that are not generally...you first began to make paintings? Gerhard Richter:
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- Newspaper article from: Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) September 14, 2009 700+ words
GERHARD Richter, one of the world's most acclaimed...Scotland, of the Scottish Government. Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932 and went...unique and distinctive collection of Gerhard Richter's work is a major coup for both mima...
- Call to order.(Robert Storr discusses Gerhard Richter exhibition)(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Holert, Tom January 1, 2002 700+ words
...S FEBRUARY RETROSPECTIVE "GERHARD RICHTER: 40 YEARS OF PAINTING," TOM...his profession in the East. Gerhard Richter slipped through the iron curtain...parties. --TH TOM HOLERT: Gerhard Richter's work poses the difficult...
- Gerhard Richter: Red, Yellow, Blue.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch April 1, 2008 700+ words
Gerhard Richter: Red, Yellow, Blue Helmut Friedel...unfamiliar with the name and work of Gerhard Richter, one of the most influential, innovative...Helmut Friedel and Robert Storr, "Gerhard Richter: Red, Yellow, Blue" is a coffee...
- Pas de trois. (Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York)
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Rimanelli, David January 1, 1994 700+ words
Gerhard Richter at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Sometimes I have lunch at a burrito...acidulous red and yellow, it really looks like an unwitting parody of a Gerhard Richter abstraction. The composition is roughly unified by a thin looping dribble...
- Gerhard Richter's art reflects uncertainties // Paintings illustrate changing...
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Mary Sherman October 16, 1988 700+ words
...to say? Hardly. The painter, Gerhard Richter, may produce works that seem like...show makes it difficult to follow Richter's underlying premise and means...diverse output, it is hard to detect Richter's unifying theme in his works...
- The Impossibility of Seeing and Knowing: An enigmatic German gets a MoMA...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek Plagens, Peter March 25, 2002 700+ words
...70-year-old German painter Gerhard Richter is one of those artists whose...such characters as Uncle Rudi. Richter's artistic solution is to hold...painter to pay for absolution. Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting Museum...
- GERHARD RICHTER RETROSPECTIVE
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Roxanne Roberts December 11, 1988 700+ words
Ten years ago, Gerhard Richter shared the spotlight with 20 artists...important to the way things look. All of Richter's work uses style as the subject...obviously more philosophical." "Gerhard Richter: Paintings" runs from Wednesday...
