Unscharf. Nach Gerhard Richter

Out of Focus. After Gerhard Richter

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

February 11, 2011 – May 22, 2011

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Sechs Fotos. 2.5.89–7.5.89 (f / 7.5.1989)

Six Photos. May 2–7, 1989 (f / 7 May 1989)

1991

35 x 50.8cm

Portfolio with six black-and-white photographs on resin-coated paper

Editions CR: 74f

Richter used a delayed-action shutter release to take this photograph.

50 portfolios, each photograph signed and dated in ink at top right or left (each with its corresponding date; 2.5.89 - 7.5.89), numbered at top left or top right.

2 portfolios, each photograph signed and dated in ink at top right or left (each with its corresponding date; 2.5.89 - 7.5.89), numbered in Roman numerals at top left, marked a.p. on the first sheet of the portfolio.

There are also six individual copies of these photographs overpainted with oil paint, signed and dated in chronological order in ink at top right: 15. Jan. 1990 to 20. Jan. 1990.

This artwork is shown in the following exhibition videos:

  Title Author Date

Gerhard Richter. Maler

Elger, Dietmar

2002

Publisher DuMont, Köln (2002)
Details Hardback, 420 pages
ISBN 9783832158484
Language German
ArtworkMentioned: p. 279
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]
  Title Author Date

Unscharf. Nach Gerhard Richter

Gaßner, Hubertus / Hoffmann, Eckhart / Hüppauf, Berd / Schakenberg, Sabine / Wellmann, Marc

2011

Publisher Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit (2011)
Details Hardback, 192 pages
ISBN 9783775728058
Language German
Exhibitions
Unscharf. Nach Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2011  
Both the exhibition Out of Focus. After Gerhard Richter and this associated catalogue examine the stylistic device of blurring in contemporary art. Richter is a forerunner of this technique, and [more]

Gerhard Richter. Images of an Era / Out of Focus. After Gerhard Richter

Prince, Mark

2011