Face à l'Histoire 1933-1996
L'Artiste moderne devant l'évènement historique

Encounter History 1933-1996: The Artist Facing Historical Events

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

December 19, 1996 – April 07, 1997

Gerhard Richter's Atlas collection of motifs, including photographs, sketches and newspaper clippings, has been modified over the years and continually expanded.

This group exhibition displayed 10 sheets of Atlas, on the subject of the Baader-Meinhof group.


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Baader-Meinhof-Fotos (18. Oktober 1977)

Baader-Meinhof photographs (18 October 1977)

1989

51.7 cm x 66.7 cm

Atlas Sheet: 470

  Title Author Date

Gerhard Richter. Atlas

Friedel, Helmut

2006

Publisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln (2006)
Details Hardback, 864 pages
ISBN 9783883758015
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 13, 836, 851
Illustrated: p. 489 (colour)
Notes

Encyclopedic new edition that completely revises and updates the 1997 edition and includes 147 additional plates.

At 864 pages, this monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of Gerhard Richter. Conceived and closely edited by Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to [more]

Gerhard Richter. Doubt and Belief in Painting

Storr, Robert

2003

Publisher The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2003)
Details Softcover, 336 pages
ISBN 0870703552
Language English
ArtworkIllustrated: p. 240
Notes

The Museum of Modern Art has published two important books on Richter, both written by Robert Storr: one covering forty years of his work, and published to accompany the Museum's large retrospective of his work in 2002, and one focusing on a single crucial series, October 18, 1977. This book brings together the essays and recent interviews from both of those books in a single volume.

Gerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters working today, and he is certainly among the most influential. He has worked in a wide range of media since the early [more]

Gerhard Richter. Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2002

Publisher DuMont, Köln (2002)
Details Hardback, 420 pages
ISBN 9783832158484
Language German
ArtworkDiscussed: p. 388
Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the [more]

Gerhard Richter. Atlas

Zweite, Armin

1989

  Title Author Date

Face à l'Histoire, 1933-1996. L'Artiste modern davant l'événement historique

Ameline, Jean Paul

1996

Publisher Flammarion, Paris (1996)
Details Hardback, 620 pages
ISBN 2858508984
Language French
Exhibitions
Face à l'Histoire 1933-1996
L'Artiste moderne devant l'évènement historique, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1996