#abstraktes bild

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Gerhard Richter Abstraktes Bild (Grau)

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Gerhard Richter rarely paints on hard surfaces, like wood panels. He's probably done more on aluminum. The thick, tectonic red surface of the little Abstraktes Bild on wood from 1979 [CR448/1] up top looks like he smushed plastic wrap on it, and then pulled it off. The little panel above, Abstraktes Bild [CR947/2] from 2016, is on aluminum, almost the same size, 10 x 14 inches.

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Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild, 1964, oil and tape [sic] on panel, 14 x 10 in. image via gerhard-richter.com

Somehow never noticed this little, 1964 [!!] Gerhard Richter painting he gave to a friend, photographer Lothar Wolleh, which David Rimanelli posted on IG. It looks like he painted over a piece of tape on a small cabinet front or plaque, and then Barnett Newman-like, zzzzipped it up.

At some point, Richter went back and added it to his CR—as he does—and gave it the title, Abstraktes Bild, which he only started using widely in the 1980s. Sotheby's got the image backwards when they sold it in 2007. It was included in a 2017 retrospective in Europe, but otherwise hasn't really been shown, it seems.

Anyway, do want.

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Gerhard Richter Abstraktes Bild (1994)

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Gerard Richter (b. 1932)

Abstraktes Bild Series

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Gerhard Richter : Abstraktes Bild  2015

 84 x 65 cm

Oil on aluminium, mounted on wood

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Gerhard Richter : Abstraktes Bild 1997

Oil on canvas  112 cm x 102 cm

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GERHARD RICHTER I: ABSTRACTION

Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden on 9 February 1932, the last year of the Weimar Republic. 86 years old today, he is tied with Jasper Johns for the title of greatest living painter.

If the ability of colour to generate this emotional, spiritual quality is presented and at the same time negated at all points, surely its always cancelling itself out. With so many combinations, so many permutational relationships, there can’t be any harmonious chromatic order, or compositional either, because there are no ordered relations left either in the colour system or the spatial system.

–Benjamin Buchloh, “An Interview with Gerhard Richter (1986),” October Files: Gerhard Richter (MIT Press, 2009).