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Figurations

Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

July 29, 1967 – September 10, 1967

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Acht Lernschwestern

Eight Student Nurses

1966

each: 95 cm x 70 cm

Oil on canvas

Catalogue Raisonné: 130

Eight Student Nurses consists of eight individual portraits.

The caption of the source image, a newspaper clipping, reads:
Fieberhaft fahndet die Polizei von Chikago nach dem Massenmörder, der aus bisher ungeklärten Motiven am Donnerstag in einem Wohnheim acht Lernschwestern auf bestialische Weise ermordet hat (unser Bild zeigt die Opfer von links, Gloria Davy, Merlita Gargullo, Valentina Pasion, Suzanne Farris; unten: Patricia Matusek, Marianne Jordan, Nina Schmale und Pamela Wilkening). Eine neunte Schwester hatte sich verstecken und später die Polizei benachrichtigen können.
(The police of Chicago searches frantically for the mass murderer, who, for unknown reasons, brutishly killed eight student nurses in a dormitory on Thursday (our picture shows the victims from the left: Gloria Davy, Merlita Gargullo, Valentina Pasion, Suzanne Farris; below: Patricia Matusek, Mary Ann Jordan, Nina Schmale and Pamela Wilkening). A ninth nurse was able to hide and later call the police.)

The photographs, taken from a yearbook of the nurse’s school, combined with their circumstance of death seem to force a collective identity upon the women.

  Title Author Date

Gerhard Richter. Panorama. Retrospektive

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine

2012

Publisher Prestel, München (2012)
Details Hardback, 305 pages
ISBN 9783791351896
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 169
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter: Panorama, Neue und Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2012  

Die Porträts von Gerhard Richter

Moorhouse, Paul

2009

Publisher DuMont, Köln (2009)
Details Hardback, 176 pages
ISBN 9783832191542
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 88, 89, 170
Illustrated: pp. 94, 95 (colour)
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2009  

Gerhard Richter Portraits. Painting Appearances

Moorhouse, Paul

2009

Publisher National Portrait Gallery Publications, London (2009)
Details Hardback, 176 pages
ISBN 9781855143975
Language English
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 88, 89, 170
Illustrated: pp. 94, 95 (colour)
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK, 2009  
The catalogue of the exhibition Gerhard Richter: Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2009 focuses on Richter's portraiture. Author and curator Paul Moorhouse presents a [more]

Ein Maler aus Deutschland. Gerhard Richter. Das Drama einer Familie

Schreiber, Jürgen

2005

Publisher Pendo Verlag, München & Zürich (2005)
Details Hardback, 304 pages
ISBN 3866120583
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 18
Gespenstisch miteinander verflochten sind die Lebensläufe von Gerhard Richters Tante Marianne und seinem früheren Schwiegervater, Professor Dr. Heinrich Eufinger, einem Nazi der ersten Stunde. [more]

Gerhard Richter. Werkverzeichnis 1993-2004

Zweite, Armin

2005

Publisher Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf in association with D.A.P Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY (2005)
Details Hardback, 323 pages
ISBN 3937572201
ISBN 3926154764
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 97
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, 2005  
Gerhard Richter, K20 Grabbeplatz, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2005  
This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1999-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and [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
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 43, 56, 153, 240, 250
Discussed: pp. 55, 56
Illustrated: pp. 28, 29
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
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 145, 163, 251, 441
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. Forty Years of Painting

Storr, Robert

2002

Publisher The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2002)
Details Hardback, Softcover, 340 pages
ISBN 189102437X
Language English
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 29, 39, 92
Discussed: pp. 38, 39
Illustrated: pp. 134, 135 (colour)
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA, 2002  
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2002  
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA, 2002  
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA, 2003  
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. 40 Years of Painting at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this publication represents a broad range of Gerhard Richter's [more]

Gerhard Richter. Malerei

Storr, Robert

2002

Publisher Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit (2002)
Details Hardback, 340 pages
ISBN 9783775711692
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 26, 92
Discussed: pp. 36, 37
Illustrated: pp. 134, 135 (colour)
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA, 2003  
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA, 2002  
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2002  
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA, 2002  
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. 40 Years of Painting at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, this publication represents a broad range of Gerhard Richter's [more]

Gerhard Richter 1988/89

Schampers, Karel / Tilroe, Anna / Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.

1989

Publisher Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1989)
Details Softcover, 166 pages
ISBN 9069180464
Languages Dutch, English
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 20, 21, 32, 33, 40, 41
Discussed: pp. 29, 30
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter 1988/89, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1989  

Gerhard Richter. Atlas

Zweite, Armin

1989

Gerhard Richter. Paintings

Rorimer, Anne / Zacharopoulos, Denys

1987

Publisher Marian Goodman Gallery / Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (1987)
Details Softcover, 46 pages
Language English
ArtworkDiscussed: p. 5
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter: Paintings, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA and Sperone Westwater, New York, USA, 1987  

Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985

Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar

1986

Gerhard Richter

Honnef, Klaus

1976

Publisher Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen (1976)
Details Hardback, 72 pages
ISBN 3764702877
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 18
Notes

Monographien zur rheinisch-westfälischen Kunst der Gegenwart, Volume 50.

Gerhard Richter. Arbeiten 1962-1971

Hering, Karl-Heinz / Helms, Dietrich

1971

Publisher Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (1971)
Details Softcover, 136 pages
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: pp. 9, 12
Illustrated: pp. 35, 37
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter. Arbeiten 1962 bis 1971, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1971  

Figurationen. Horst Antes, George Baselitz, Sine Hansen. Fritz Köthe, Uwe Lausen, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Heinrich Richter, Michael Schoenholtz, Lambert Maria Wintersberger, Paul Wunderlich

Honisch, Dieter

1967

Publisher Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (1967)
Details Softcover, 84 pages
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 56
Exhibitions
Figurationen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, 1967  
  Title Author Date

Figurationen. Horst Antes, George Baselitz, Sine Hansen. Fritz Köthe, Uwe Lausen, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Heinrich Richter, Michael Schoenholtz, Lambert Maria Wintersberger, Paul Wunderlich

Honisch, Dieter

1967

Publisher Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (1967)
Details Softcover, 84 pages
Language German
Exhibitions
Figurationen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, 1967