Text by Hubertus Butin, Ann Cotten, T.J. Demos, Matias Faldbakken, Cathérine Hug, Lisa Ortner-Kreil.
The world’s most famous painter focuses on the depiction of natural environments, from sunsets to seascapes to suburban streets
Gerhard Richter’s paintings combine photorealism and abstraction in a manner that is completely unique to the German artist. A master of texture, Richter has experimented with different techniques of paint application throughout his career. His hallmark is the illusion of motion blur in his paintings, which are referenced from photographs he himself has taken, obscuring his subjects with gentle brushstrokes or the scrape of a squeegee, softening the edges of his figures to appear as though they had been captured by an unfocused lens.
This publication concentrates on the theme of landscape in Richter’s work, a genre to which he has remained faithful for over 60 years, capturing environments from seascapes to countryside. With a selection of Richter’s paintings, some of which are previously unreproduced, this volume provides both a history of Richter’s development as an artist and valuable insight into the subject of nature in contemporary art.
Born in 1932 in Dresden, Gerhard Richter is one of Germany’s most significant contemporary artists. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and taught at the latter for 15 years. He has also taught at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. In addition to his paintings, he has also worked in sculpture with glass as his primary medium, as well as drawing and printmaking. He currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Gerhard Richter: Landscape.'
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Disquieted, disintegrating, drained of colour, smart disquisitions on beauty and meaning: Richter’s landscapes are as far from an instinctive response to nature as is possible within the genre.
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"Rainbow" (1970) is reproduced from Gerhard Richter: Landscape, a new release this week from Hatje Cantz, and also one of our Top 20 Holiday Gift Books for Art Lovers, 2020. Featuring 200 color reproductions of paintings made 1964–2016, this volume features many of the artist's best-known and most important landscape paintings, across all styles and techniques, as well as several that have never been published before. From ice floes to mountainscapes, city grids to distant countryside horizons, this essential Richter book contains new scholarship by Hubertus Butin, Ann Cotten, T.J. Demos, Matias Faldbakken, Cathérine Hug and Lisa Ortner-Kreil. A "must" for any serious academic or home art library. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 10.25 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $50.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $70 ISBN: 9783775747134 PUBLISHER: Hatje Cantz AVAILABLE: 12/1/2020 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Hatje Cantz. Text by Hubertus Butin, Ann Cotten, T.J. Demos, Matias Faldbakken, Cathérine Hug, Lisa Ortner-Kreil.
The world’s most famous painter focuses on the depiction of natural environments, from sunsets to seascapes to suburban streets
Gerhard Richter’s paintings combine photorealism and abstraction in a manner that is completely unique to the German artist. A master of texture, Richter has experimented with different techniques of paint application throughout his career. His hallmark is the illusion of motion blur in his paintings, which are referenced from photographs he himself has taken, obscuring his subjects with gentle brushstrokes or the scrape of a squeegee, softening the edges of his figures to appear as though they had been captured by an unfocused lens.
This publication concentrates on the theme of landscape in Richter’s work, a genre to which he has remained faithful for over 60 years, capturing environments from seascapes to countryside. With a selection of Richter’s paintings, some of which are previously unreproduced, this volume provides both a history of Richter’s development as an artist and valuable insight into the subject of nature in contemporary art.
Born in 1932 in Dresden, Gerhard Richter is one of Germany’s most significant contemporary artists. He studied at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and taught at the latter for 15 years. He has also taught at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. In addition to his paintings, he has also worked in sculpture with glass as his primary medium, as well as drawing and printmaking. He currently lives and works in Cologne, Germany.
