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Richter's interest in art and culture began to take shape in the aftermath of the Second World War. He receives a simple tallrik camera as a Christmas gift from his mother. Werner Jungmichel, a camera shop owner in Waltersdorf teaches the young Richter how to develop photographs, a skill that will prove useful throughout his career.
As the eastern part of Germany became the GDR (German Democratic Republic), political uncertainty was accompanied by a shifting cultural status quo: 'It was very nasty, [but] when the Russians came to our by and expropriated the houses of the rich who had already left or were driven out, they made libraries for the people out of these houses. And that was fantastic.'14 Richter has recalled suddenly being able to access books that had been forbidden under Nazi rule: 'Cesare Lombroso's Genius and Madness, Hesse, Stefan Zweig, Feuchtwanger, all that middle-class literature. It was a wonderful, care-free time made it easy to forget the dark side of thing
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Gerhard Richter
German visual artist (born )
For the German Major in the Luftwaffe, see Gerhard Richter (pilot).
Gerhard Richter (German:[ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁtˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February [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
[edit]Childhood and education
[edit]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 te
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Gerhard Richter
Introduction: Who is Gerhard Richter?
Gerhard Richter was born in in Dresden, and currently resides and works in Cologne. The German artist is best known for his meticulously rendered photo paintings, in contrast to his bold abstract paintings using a large squeegee instead of a paintbrush.
Richter is arguably the most famous painter today, and is one of the most important contemporary artists in general. He shifts from a photographic realism with a blurred effect, to pure abstraction, as no other artist has ever done before. His oeuvre is the result of an ongoing examination of painting as a medium an sich.
With shows at the most renowned institutions across the globe, encompassing major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, up to Tate Modern in London, Richter&#;s impressive career spanning across over half a century has been a certainty in today&#;s art world.
But how did a boy from Dresden become one of the greatest artists in