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"Landschaft I" (1971), color aquatint, 495x400mm; 19 1/2" x 15 3/4" (sheet), full margins. Signed, dated and numbered 16/100 in pencil, lower margin. A good impression with strong colors [Butin 27]. Gerhard Richter (1932 - ) was born in Dresden, Germany and was raised in the countryside, in Reichenau and Waltersdorf. Richter grew up under National Socialism and then in East Germany after World War II. After receiving his certificate of graduation, he was apprenticed as an advertising and stage-set painter in Zittau. In 1950, he applied to the Dresden Art Academy and was rejected, but was accepted in 1952; he studied for four years. Richter's early works centered upon painting murals which brought him much- needed recognition. In 1959, while in Kassel in West Germany, Richter discovered Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel (e.g., in 1962, Richter abandoned Art Informel and created his first photo-based paintings). He subsequently moved to Dusseldorf, where he was accepted into the class of Ferdinand Macketanz at the Dusseldorf Art Academy; he studied for two years with Karl Otto Gotz. During his period, Richter was influenced by Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier and the anarchic Fluxus movement, a resurgence of Dada. Richter is often considered a "conceptual painter" whose "paintings are states about ideas for paintings". Richter himself said that he wanted to express "the inadequacy in relation to what is expected of painting" through his art, the inadequacy of the making of images and the critical examination of it. He is considered a master of "deconstruction" of formal conventions of painting. He kept a "skeptical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting should be". According to Robert Storr, all of Richter's works point toward "the basic loss of bearings"; he is "an image-struck poet of alertness and restraint, of doubt and daring" [compiled by Catharina Manchanda on an essay by Robert Storr]. This Richter is in a 26 5 /8" x 32 1/4" burl veneer frame with a matching wood fillet. The outer sun-bleached khaki rag and raised 8-ply inner (beneath the fillet) mats are acid and lignin free and protected with Acrylite-AR OP3 (UV) by CYRO ...... $4800.00 |