Gerhard richter landscapes

          Catalogue Raisonné: ; Große Teyde-Landschaft Large Teyde Landscape · Catalogue Raisonné: ; Venedig (Treppe) Venice .

        1. Catalogue Raisonné: ; Große Teyde-Landschaft Large Teyde Landscape · Catalogue Raisonné: ; Venedig (Treppe) Venice .
        2. Containing outstanding illustrations and insightful texts, this volume examines Richter's landscapes from the early sixties to the present.
        3. As a classic theme in painting Richter has drawn landscapes since when they first appeared as an independent work group in his oeuvre.
        4. The two great polar tendencies of Gerhard Richter's art -- pure abstraction and photo-realism -- have never been at odds with one another, and are in fact complementary aspects of Richter's total vision.
        5. Richter was posing the question of what it meant to paint a German landscape in a post-religious, post-Nazi era.

          6. As a classic theme in painting Richter has drawn landscapes since when they first appeared as an independent work group in his oeuvre..

          Gerhard Richter

          German visual artist (born 1932)

          For the German Major in the Luftwaffe, see Gerhard Richter (pilot).

          Gerhard Richter (German:[ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁtˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932[1]) is a German visual artist.

          Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.[2]

          Richter has been called the "greatest living painter",[3] "the world's most important artist"[4] and the "Picasso of the 21st century".[5]

          Personal life

          Childhood and education

          Richter was born in Hospital Dresden-Neustadt in Dresden, Saxony, and grew up in Reichenau (now Bogatynia, Poland), and in Waltersdorf (Zittauer Gebirge), in the Upper Lusatian countryside, where his father worked as a village teache