Gerhard Richter : a life in painting / Dietmar Elger ; translated by Elizabeth M. Solaro.

By:

Elger, Dietmar

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2009.Description: xiv, 389 pages : illustrations (come color) ; 26 cmISBN:

9780226203232
0226203239

Uniform titles:

Gerhard Richter, Maler. English

Subject(s):

Richter, Gerhard, 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation

DDC classification:

759.3 RIC

Contents:

Dresden -- Capitalist realism -- Dramatic personae -- Transformation -- Uncle Rudi -- Stylistic rupture as stylistic principle -- Venice biennale -- Gray -- Juno and Janus -- Sublime landscape, exceptional disaster -- Hahnwald -- First look.

Summary: Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialog with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during the 1960s that rely on images culled from mass media and pop culture. Always fascinated with the limits and uncertainties of representation, he has since then produced landscapes, abstractions, glass and mirro constructions, prints, sculptures, and installations. Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite some time, the highly successful retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in 2002 catapulted him to unprecedented fame. Enter noted curator Dietmar Elger, who here presents the first biography of this contemporary artist. Written with full access to Richter and his archives, this fascinating book offers unparalleled insight into his life and work. Elger explores Richter\'s childhood in Nazi Germany; his years as a student and mural painter in communist East Germany; his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and \'70s, when student protests, political strife, and violence tore the Federal Republic of Germany apart; and his rise to international acclaim during the 1980s and beyond. Richter has always been a difficult personality to parse, and the seemingly contradictory strands of his artistic practice have frustrated and sometimes confounded critics. But the extensive interviews on which this book is based disclose a Richter who is remarkably candid, personal, and vivid. The result is a book that will be the foundational portrait of this artist for years to come.

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and influential artists of the post-war era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during the 1960s that rely on images culled from mass media and pop culture. Always fascinated with the limits and uncertainties of representation, he has since then produced landscapes, abstractions, glass and mirror constructions, prints, sculptures, and installations.

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Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite some time, the highly successful retrospective of his work at the MoMA in 2002 catapulted him to unprecedented fame. Enter noted curator Dietmar Elger, who here presents the first biography of this contemporary artist. Written with full access to Richter and his archives, this fascinating book offers unprecedented insight into his life and work. Elger explores Richter's childhood in Nazi Germany; his years as a student and mural painter in communist East Germany; his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and '70s, when student protests, political strife, and violence tore the Federal Republic of Germany apart; and his rise to international acclaim during the 1980s and beyond.

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Richter has always been a difficult personality to parse and the seemingly contradictory strands of his artistic practice have frustrated and sometimes confounded critics. But the extensive interviews on which this book is based disclose a Richter who is far more candid, personal, and vivid than ever before. The result is a book that will be the foundational portrait of this artist for years to come.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-380) and index.

Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and influential artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialog with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during the 1960s that rely on images culled from mass media and pop culture. Always fascinated with the limits and uncertainties of representation, he has since then produced landscapes, abstractions, glass and mirro constructions, prints, sculptures, and installations. Though Richter has been known in the United States for quite some time, the highly successful retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in 2002 catapulted him to unprecedented fame. Enter noted curator Dietmar Elger, who here presents the first biography of this contemporary artist. Written with full access to Richter and his archives, this fascinating book offers unparalleled insight into his life and work. Elger explores Richter\'s childhood in Nazi Germany; his years as a student and mural painter in communist East Germany; his time in the West during the turbulent 1960s and \'70s, when student protests, political strife, and violence tore the Federal Republic of Germany apart; and his rise to international acclaim during the 1980s and beyond. Richter has always been a difficult personality to parse, and the seemingly contradictory strands of his artistic practice have frustrated and sometimes confounded critics. But the extensive interviews on which this book is based disclose a Richter who is remarkably candid, personal, and vivid. The result is a book that will be the foundational portrait of this artist for years to come.

Translated from the German.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

List of Illustrations
A Note to the Reader
1 Dresden
2 Capitalist Realism
3 Dramatis Personae
4 Transformation
5 Uncle Rudi
6 Stylistic Rupture as Stylistic Principle
7 Venice Biennale
8 Gray
9 Juno and Janus
10 Sublime Landscape, Exceptional Disaster
11 Hahnwald
12 First Look
Notes
Illustration credits
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Dietmar Elger is the director of the Gerhard Richter Archive and chief curator at the Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. He is the 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.

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