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Gerhard Richter Unit 08

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Born:

Dresden, 9 February 1932

Family:

• Married to Sabine Moritz
• daughters: Babette (Gen. Betty), Ella Maria
• sons Moritz, Theodor

education, work and academic career

• 1948: Graduation
• writings and teaching as a set painter. Degree majoring in mural painting at the Dresden State Art Academy
• 1961-1964 Studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy
• 1967 guest lecturer at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg
• 1971-1993 Professor at the State Art Academy Dü sseldorf
• 1978 Visiting Professor at the College of Art in Halifax, Canada
• 1988 Visiting Professor at the Stadel in Frankfurt School

Awards:

• 1967: Art Award Young West, Recklinghausen
• 1981: Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel
• 1985: Oskar-Kokoschka Prize, Vienna
• 1994/95: Wolf Prize from the Wolf Foundation, Jerusalem
• 1997 Praemium Imperiale, Japan
• 1998 Wexner Prize, Columbus, Ohio, USA
• 2000: State Award of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dusseldorf
• 2001 : Honorary doctorate from the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

friendships with other artists:

Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo, Konrad Fischer Lueg. In 1971, Judge professor at the Dusseldorf Art Academy, and thus to the colleagues of Joseph Beuys.

Education:

• 13 years under National Socialism
• 16 years under the Communist regime of East Germany in 1961
• judge flees with his wife Ema from the GDR ü ; over West Berlin Currently in the Federal Republic

:

• Gerhard Richter lives and works in Cologne

quotes

"I have no intentions, no system, no direction, I have no program, no style, no issues." Gerhard Richter

"lack of style to world success " headline in the Frankfurter Rundschau 18.01.2008 Online.

"I like anything that has no style: Dictionaries, photos, nature, me and my pictures. Because style is violent, and I'm not violent, "Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter's work moves between photorealism and pop art. Under the influence of pop art painting and informal but also from the Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada and Fluxus.

Richter developed his own painting technique. The alleged "uncertainty" of his works have become a trademark.