Gerhard Richter


Selected Bibliography
von Drathen, Doris. "Gerhard Richter: Les pouvoirs de l'abstraction." Les Cahiers du Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris) 40 (Summer 1992), pp. 67–85. Gerhard Richter: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings and Sculptures 1962–1993, 3 vols. Ed. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Kasper König. Bonn: Bundeskunsthalle, and Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 1993. Wood, Paul. "Truth and Beauty: The Ruined Abstraction of Gerhard Richter." In Art Has No History. Ed. John Roberts. London: Verso, 1994, pp. 180–99. Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting. Writings and Interviews 1962–1993. Ed. Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, in association with Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1995. Fer, Briony. "Postscript: Vision and Blindness." In On Abstract Art. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997, pp. 153–69. Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. "Gerhard Richter's Eight Gray: Between Vorschein and Glanz." In Gerhard Richter: Eight Gray 2002. Berlin: Deutsche Guggenheim, 2002, pp. 13–28.


Biography
Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932. He studied at the art academy in Dresden between 1951 and 1956 and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1961 to 1963, becoming a professor there in 1971. Since his first solo show at Galerie René Block in Berlin in 1964, Richter has exhibited in many international venues, including Documentas 5 (1972), 7 (1982), 8 (1987), 9 (1992), and 10 (1997). In 1998, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, co-organized Richter's first North American retrospective. During its 1995–96 season, Dia exhibited Atlas, Richter's ongoing encyclopedic work composed of photographs, reproductions, and illustrations; during Dia's 2002–03 season, Richter presented, with Jorge Pardo, "Refraction," an exhibition in Project, Pardo's redesign of Dia's bookshop, lobby, and first-floor exhibition gallery in Chelsea. In 2002, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, presented a major retrospective of Richter's paintings, which traveled throughout the United States.