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Notes
Alfred Schmela was born on November 23, 1918 in Dinslaken.
He died on July 20, 1980 in Düsseldorf.
Schmela was a German gallery owner. In 1978 he was made honorary member of the Düsseldorf Academy of Arts.
From 1964 Richter executed numerous commissioned works after passport photographs or family pictures. The portraits of Alfred Schmela are the first works of this kind. -
Exhibitions
- Kunst der 60er Jahre und 70er Jahre aus Bonner Privatbesitz
Art of the 1960s and 1970s from Bonn Private Collections
Städtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany November 02, 1976 – December 05, 1976
- Neue Realisten. Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerd Richter
New Realists: Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerd Richter
Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, Germany November 20, 1964 – December 30, 1964
- Kunst der 60er Jahre und 70er Jahre aus Bonner Privatbesitz
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Literature
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Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar
Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985 DuMont, Köln, 1986 Mentioned: p. 359 -
Zweite, Armin
Gerhard Richter. Atlas Verlag Fred Jahn, München, 1989 Mentioned: p. 17 -
Butin, Hubertus
Zu Richters Oktober-Bildern Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1991 Mentioned: p. 23 -
Elger, Dietmar
Gerhard Richter. Maler DuMont, Köln, 2002 Mentioned: pp. 66, 438Discussed: p. 98
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Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar