Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 1: Nos. 1-1981962-1968 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775719784 ISBN 13: 9783775719780

Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011

Synopsis

Gerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné is being released on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in February 2012.Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years researching and preparing this publication. The five-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter’s paintings and sculptures will be published over the next seven years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist’s handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images.The first volume encompasses the works Gerhard Richter assigned numbers 1 to 198, covering the years 1962 to 1968. A total of 385 paintings and sculptures are listed, including more than thirty of which were previously unknown.

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Review:

The first of a projected five volumes cataloguing the painted work of the prominent German artist Gerhard Richter, this volume revises and continues catalogues that the artist himself had carefully begun earlier in his career...This publication marks the important collaboration of the Gerhard Richter Archiv and the Staaliche Kunstsammlungen in Dresden, thus providing important new documentary and visual information about the works...Good color images appear throughout; source material for individual paintings is also illustrated. This book and its successors will be indispensable research tools for future writing on this artist...Highly recommended.--J. T. Paoletti "Choice "

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 3775719784
• ISBN 13: 9783775719780
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512