States: An Exhibition of German Graphic Art 1960–1990
Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
1990
Umwandlung
Transformation
1968
46.6 cm x 67.2 cm
Offset print on lightweight card
Editions CR: 14
Black offset print on white lightweight cardboard.
Based on five manipulated photographs of a newspaper illustration and a lightsource. A joint project by Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter.
200 copies, signed and dated in graphite pencil at bottom right: Richter Polke or Polke Richter, numbered at bottom left, printed subtitle below the image: 5 Phasen einer von Polke und Richter vorgenommenen Umwandlung. Das Massiv wurde am 26. April 68 für die Dauer von zwei Stunden in eine Kugel verwandelt. [Five stages of a transformation undertaken by Polke and Richter. On April 26, 1968, the mountain was transformed into a sphere for the duration of two hours]. Underneath, in a similar type: edition 16 galerie rene block 1968.
30 copies, signed and dated in lead pencil at bottom right, numbered in Roman numerals at bottom left.
1 known trial proof, unmarked.
This artwork is shown in the following exhibition videos:
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Gerhard Richter. Landschaften Butin, Hubertus / Bätschmann, Oskar / Elger, Dietmar 2011 
Gerhard Richter. Maler Elger, Dietmar 2002 
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]
Zu Richters Oktober-Bildern Butin, Hubertus 1991 
Gerhard Richter. Bilder = Paintings 1962 - 1985 Harten, Jürgen / Hering, Karl-Heinz / Honisch, Dieter / Loock, Ulrich / Ronte, Dieter / Elger, Dietmar 1986 
Gerhard Richter. Das grafische Werk
1976 
Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus. KP Brehmer, Hödicke, Lueg, Polke, Richter, Vostell. Werkverzeichnisse bis 1971 Block, René / Vogel, Carl 1971 
Gerhard Richter. Graphik 1965-1970 Honisch, Dieter 1970 
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Zustände = States. Beispiele deutscher Graphik nach 1960 Schilling, Jürgen 1990 
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