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| Article number | 9783406821493 |
| Price | 34,00 € |
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"Gerhard Richter. The unconditional painter"
Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, is recognised worldwide as the most important contemporary artist. Extremely versatile, over the years he has masterfully changed styles, techniques and motifs - from figuration to abstraction - like almost no other painter. In this vividly written monograph, Uwe M. Schneede presents the first compact overview of the rich oeuvre of this unconditional, unconditional painter.
When Gerhard Richter turned his back on the GDR art scene when he moved to West Germany in 1961, he soon produced the early photographic images such as "Tante Marianne", with which he became known and which refer to Richter's explosive family history. From the 1970s onwards, large, abstract paintings stood alongside works with a direct political reference to the times, such as the famous "RAF Cycle", as well as public works, such as the large-format stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral. In his works, Richter not only deals with the classic genres of landscape, still life and portrait, but also plays with the most diverse styles of modernism - from figurative to monochrome and conceptual to abstract. Uwe M. Schneede, who has long been familiar with the artist and his work, explains the diversity and contradictory nature of his oeuvre by saying that the artist uses the means of both old and modern art as required in order to open up new formal and thematic paths for painting: as a conscious traditionalist and radical innovator in one.
Uwe M. Schneede was director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle from 1991 to 2006, before that he taught modern art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
Hardback | Publisher C.H.Beck | Number of pages 256 | Dimensions (L/W) 24/19 cm | Language German
Gerhard Richter, born in Dresden in 1932, is recognised worldwide as the most important contemporary artist. Extremely versatile, over the years he has masterfully changed styles, techniques and motifs - from figuration to abstraction - like almost no other painter. In this vividly written monograph, Uwe M. Schneede presents the first compact overview of the rich oeuvre of this unconditional, unconditional painter.
When Gerhard Richter turned his back on the GDR art scene when he moved to West Germany in 1961, he soon produced the early photographic images such as "Tante Marianne", with which he became known and which refer to Richter's explosive family history. From the 1970s onwards, large, abstract paintings stood alongside works with a direct political reference to the times, such as the famous "RAF Cycle", as well as public works, such as the large-format stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral. In his works, Richter not only deals with the classic genres of landscape, still life and portrait, but also plays with the most diverse styles of modernism - from figurative to monochrome and conceptual to abstract. Uwe M. Schneede, who has long been familiar with the artist and his work, explains the diversity and contradictory nature of his oeuvre by saying that the artist uses the means of both old and modern art as required in order to open up new formal and thematic paths for painting: as a conscious traditionalist and radical innovator in one.
Uwe M. Schneede was director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle from 1991 to 2006, before that he taught modern art history at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich.
Hardback | Publisher C.H.Beck | Number of pages 256 | Dimensions (L/W) 24/19 cm | Language German