Gerhard Richter - A Life in Painting

Informationen zum Autor Dietmar Elger is director of the Gerhard Richter Archive and chief curator at the Galerie Neue Meister! Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. He is former curator for painting and sculpture at the Sprengel Museum in Hannover. Between 1984 and 1985 he was the secretary in Gerhard Richter's studio. He has organized numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art and has written and edited their accompanying catalogs. Elizabeth M. Solaro is a translator of works from the German. Klappentext This fascinating book offers unprecedented insight into artist Gerhard Richter's life and work. From his childhood in Nazi Germany to his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and '70s, this work presents a complete portrait of the often-reclusive Richter. Zusammenfassung Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant! often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. This book presents a foundational portrait of this artist and his profoundly influential oeuvre.

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• Authors: Dietmar Elgar, Dietmar Elger, Dietmar/ Solaro Elger, Elger Dietmar, Elizabeth M. Solaro
• Assisted by: Elizabeth M. Solaro (Translation), Solaro Elizabeth M. (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2010
• EAN: 9780226203232
• ISBN: 978-0-226-20323-2
• No. of pages: 468
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Painting & paintings, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting