Gerhard Richter

Name: Gerhard Richter
Brand: Hirmer Verlag

Hirmer Verlag

Brand new product\nFree UK standard delivery 2-3 days from despatch\nTracked secure courier\nPlease check delivery times at top of listing\nBookCurl is a family bookseller - thank you for your business\n\nGerhard Richter (*1932) is an exceptional personality \u2013 not because his pictures are world famous, but because he has demonstrated a new approach to painting. His art masterfully moves between abstraction and representation, sensuousness and denial \u2013 ambiv alent attitudes which he demonstrated even in his early work. Gerhard Richter\u2019s oeuvre overcomes the division between abstract and representational art. His pictures neither cultivate a modest interplay of colours and forms nor do they deliver an intact p icture of reality. Richter is a sceptical artist who questions the reality of his art even when the prime subject of his paintings is the tangible. This applies in particular to his door, curtain and window pictures of the 1960s, which form the cen.