ART

For more than 50 years, Gerhard Richter has proven his remarkable command of almost every style & genre of painting. From tender personal portraits to visceral overpainted photographs, romantic landscapes to monumental abstracts, this exhibition gives a detailed insight into the work of one of the world’s most influential living artists.

• “Gerhard Richter: the life of images”, an exhibition organised by the Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), and held at GOMA, Brisbane, Australia, 14 October 2017 – 4 february 2018″.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• First Edition.
• 159 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 27 cm. #271224
• Richter, Gerhard, 1932- — Exhibitions
• Art, German — Exhibitions
• Art, Modern — Exhibitions
• Painting, Modern — 20th century
• Painting, Modern — 21st century
• Barlow, Geraldine Kirrihi, author
• Elger, Dietmar, author
• Turnbull, Malcolm, 1954-, writer of foreword
• Palaszczuk, Annastacia, 1969-, writer of foreword
• Queensland Art Gallery, issuing body
• Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Qld.)
• Gerhard Richter (German: [ˈɡeːɐ̯haʁt ˈʁɪçtɐ]; born 9 February 1932^[1]) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and several of his works have set record prices at auction, with him being the most expensive living painter at one time.^[2]

  Richter has been called the “greatest living painter”,^[3] “the world’s most important artist”^[4] and the “Picasso of the 21st century”.^[5]