Wand mit Bildern von Gerhard Richter während des Akademierundgangs, Düsseldorf, im Februar 1962 (rechts im Bild Manfred Kuttner)
© Gerhard Richter 2019 (25102019)

Gerd Richter 1961/62

The cabinet exhibition "Gerd Richter 1961/62" is dedicated to the hitherto largely unexplored period in Gerhard Richter's life: the two years from his flight from Dresden to the Federal Republic to the beginning of his official catalog of works with the first numbered pictures.

  • DATES 29/08/2020—10/01/2021

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Shortly after moving to Düsseldorf, Gerhard Richter, who at that time still called himself Gerd, attended the Staatliche Kunstakademie there and within 18 months developed an independent style of painting based on photographic models and inspired by American Pop Art.

Wand mit Bildern von Gerhard Richter während des Akademierundgangs, Düsseldorf, im Februar 1962 (rechts im Bild Manfred Kuttner)
© Gerhard Richter 2019 (25102019)
Wand mit Bildern von Gerhard Richter während des Akademierundgangs, Düsseldorf, im Februar 1962 (rechts im Bild Manfred Kuttner)

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The exhibition illustrates Richter's consistent liberation from his figurative pictorial language established in Dresden to abstraction and non-objective experiments, by means of paintings and drawings created during these months, which for years were considered destroyed by the artist. In addition, numerous letters document this important early development of the artist, which the Gerhard Richter Archive was able to acquire more than ten years ago in two extensive volumes.

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Gerd Richter 1961/62 "Es ist, wie es ist"

hrsg. von den Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 125 Seiten, 29,80€, ISBN 978-3-96098-884-7

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