Gerhard Richter : panorama

Mark Godfrey, Dorothée Brill, Achim Borchardt-Hume, Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter is widely seen as one of the most important painters at work in the world today. Born in Dresden, Germany, in 1932, he left for the West in 1961, settling in Dusseldorf, where he held his first exhibition in 1963. He has exhibited internationally for the last five decades, including retrospectives in New York, Paris and Dusseldorf. He lives and works in Cologne. As the artist draws near to his eightieth birthday in 2012, Tate Modern in collaboration with the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, is staging a major retrospective exhibition.. - Catalogus van een overzichtstentoonstelling van het werk van de Duitse schilder (geb. 1932).