Gerhard Richter's 48 Portraits is a series of forty-eight black and white photographs. The photographs are facsimiles of Richter's 1972 series of oil paintings of the same name. The photographs and original paintings feature portraits of forty-eight men. Gerhard Richter is considered among the most important living contemporary artists and is a crucial figure in Post-War German Art. Throughout his prolific career, he has demonstrated tremendous artistic range, shifting between figurative and abstract painting. Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany.
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Gerhard Richter ( German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932 [1]) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction. Personal life 48 Portraits is a group of works by the German painter Gerhard Richter. In the years 1971-1972 Richter created a series of portraits of personalities who influenced modernity in a photorealistic manner. They all portray exclusively men. Gerhard Richter 48 Portraits, 1972 (1998) Photograph , 48 photographs: 69 x 54 cm c/u; 48 labels: 2.3 x 18 cm c/u Gerhard Richter represented Germany at the 1972 Venice Biennale. In this context of national representation, he created a work questioning the figures that construct a culture and our collective sense of identification and paternity. With a career spanning nearly six decades, Gerhard Richter is widely considered one of the greatest artists of our time. To explore the artist's work and life, click on an image below. Find out more about the life and career of Gerhard Richter, one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Gerhard Richter, often called the best living painter, begins work on his portraits by projecting photographs on to canvas. His subjects soon become ghosts Moira Weigel Fri 24 Apr 2009 19.01. Exhibitions. Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA, 2000. On October 18, 1977, three young German radicals, members of the militant Baader-Meinhof group, were found dead in a Stuttgart prison; they were pronounced suicides, but many people suspected they had been murdered. Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting) In 1976, Richter first employed the term "Abstract Painting" as a formal title for many of his works, such as this example. Cool tones of purple and blue create a hazy, shallow atmospheric perspective. 33 Three paintings from Gerhard Richter's "Cage" series (2006) at the Met Breuer. The artist's abstractions, made with the help of a custom squeegee, reconcile skill and randomness. Charlie.
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Gerhard Richter Art Paintings Paintings Richter officially began painting in 1962. Here we give you access to his various works, comprising photo paintings and abstracts. Show All Although the artist intentionally avoids classification, we have placed his paintings into subjective categories for easy viewing. Photo Paintings Aeroplanes Alpine Produced by: Maria Gracia Turgeon, Habib Attia. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. 'Youth Portrait (October 18)' was created in 1988 by Gerhard Richter in New European Painting style. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org - best visual art database.
Date: 1996 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 20 1/16 × 18 1/8 in. (51 × 46 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Private collection Accession Number: RIC.098 Rights and Reproduction: © Gerhard Richter 2022 (03032020) Learn more about this artwork Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met 17 / 19 < Matrosen Sailors 1966 150 cm x 200 cm Catalogue Raisonné: 126 Oil on canvas Notes Sales Atlas Exhibitions Literature Videos This painting depicts seven men in sailor's uniforms, facing the viewer. Five of the men are shown standing while two further men are kneeling in front of them.
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Thu 22 Sep 2011 07.12 EDT 14 I n 2003, Gerhard Richter made several paintings with the same title: Silicate. Large oil-on-canvas pieces, these show latticed rows of light- and dark-grey blobs. Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist.Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction.
