Neueröffnung: Gegenwartskunst 1945 – heute

Opening: Contemporary Art 1945 to the Present

Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

February 25, 2012 –

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Schweizer Alpen II - A1

Swiss Alps II

1969

69.4 cm x 69.4 cm

Five screenprints (without portfolio) on lightweight card

Editions CR: 21a1

Five screenprints (without portfolio) in black and two shades of grey on white lightweight cardboard.

Based on the 1969 paintings of the same name [CR: 224/1-5], which in turn were based on photographs that Richter took from the window of a plane on a trip to Milan in 1968.

50 unnumbered sets of prints (each with five screenprints in black and two shades of grey on white lightweight cardboard, without a portfolio).

Each sheet signed in graphite pencil at bottom right or top left, stamped on reverse: Gerhard Richter (1969) "Schweizer Alpen", Motiv A1 A2 B1 B2 B3. The actual subject is circled with graphite pencil.

  Title Author Date

Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus. KP Brehmer, Hödicke, Lueg, Polke, Richter, Vostell. Werkverzeichnisse bis 1971

Block, René / Vogel, Carl

1971

Publisher Edition René Block, Berlin (1971)
Details Hardback, 193 pages
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 149
Illustrated: p. 149
Notes

Published in two volumes: Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus 1: Werkverzeichnisse bis 1971 Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus 2: Werkverzeichnisse der Druckgrafik, September 1971 - May 1976

Gerhard Richter. Graphik 1965-1970

Honisch, Dieter

1970

Publisher Museum Folkwang, Essen (1970)
Details Softcover, 32 pages
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 21
Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter. Graphik 1965–1970, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, 1970  
  Title Author Date

Gegenwartskunst (1945-heute) im Städel Museum

Hollein, Max / Engler, Martin

2012

Publisher Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit (2012)
Details Softcover, 336 pages
ISBN 9783775730280
Language German
Exhibitions
Neueröffnung: Gegenwartskunst 1945 – heute, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2012