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Cologne Cathedral Window

Kölner Domfenster
Cologne Cathedral Window

2007 2300 x 900 cm Catalogue Raisonné: 900

Genuine antique glass, mouth-blown

Cathedral Window was designed for the south transept of Cologne Cathedral. The work, which consists of approximately 11,500 squares of glass in 72 colours, was unveiled in 2007. Some of the brightly coloured square panes were arranged randomly, while others were selected in response to the architectural context. The design is based on 4096 Colours [CR: 359] from 1974.

A documentary film about Richter’s Cologne Cathedral Window by Corinna Belz was released in 2007 in association with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Gerhard Richter Archiv. Entitled Das Kölner Domfenster [The Cologne Cathedral Window], the documentary was made over a period of two years, following the many stages of the project’s development, from the creation of glass samples based on medieval recipes to the computer generation of numerous random sequences, from the approval of the designs to the unveiling of the final window. Featuring a variety of interviews, including with Dr. Barbara Schock-Werner, Architect of Cologne Cathedral, Günter Hettinger, Stained glass restorer at the cathedral workshop, Cologne, programmer Klaus Hagemeister, and Gerhard Richter himself, Belz’s film offers considerable insight into the process of undertaking this major commission.

The film, in German with English and French subtitles, is accompanied by a documentary from 1969 by Hannes Reinhardt entitled In the Studio: Gerhard Richter [In der Werkstatt: Gerhard Richter], in German, French and English. It was produced by WDR/arte and zero one film, and is distributed by Buchhandlung Walther König.

South transept, Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany

This artwork was shown in the following exhibitions:

This artwork is included in the following publications:

Title
Author
Date
Celestial Mechanics: Form and Future in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Sean Scully
Pissarro, Joachim (ed.)
2024

Publisher

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London

Year

2024

Details

Hardback, 147 pages

ISBN

9781068632112

Language

English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Der unbedingte Maler
Schneede, Uwe M.
2024

Publisher

Beck, München

Year

2024

Details

Hardback, 231 pages

ISBN

9783406821493

Language

German

Category

Monographs
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Double vision
Kölle, Brigitte (ed.)
2023

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Year

2023

Details

Hardback, 255 pages

ISBN

9783753304038

Language

German, English

Category

Group Exhibitions

Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Vija Celmins | Gerhard Richter: Double Vision”. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Galerie der Gegenwart, 12.5. - 27.8.2023.

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The Richter Interviews
Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Richter, Gerhard
2023

Publisher

Heni Publishing, London

Year

2023

Details

Hardback, 198 pages

ISBN

9781912122592

Language

English

Category

Monographs
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Theory of Form: Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age
Klinger, Florian
2022

Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago

Year

2022

Details

Softcover, 180 pages

ISBN

9780226347158

Language

English

Category

Monographs

Notes

Originally published in German as "Theorie der Form: Gerhard Richter und die Kunst des pragmatischen Zeitalters", 2013.

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Gerhard Richter: Painting after the Subject of History
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
2022

Publisher

MIT Press, Cambridge

Year

2022

Details

Softcover, 696 pages

ISBN

9780262543538

Language

English

Category

Monographs
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Gerhard Richter: Cage Paintings
Gagosian Gallery (ed.)
2021

Publisher

Gagosian, New York

Year

2021

Details

Hardback, 72 pages

ISBN

9781951449063

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Notes

This catalogue was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Cage Paintings" at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA, 3 December 2020 - 3 April 2021.

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Foucaults Pendel und wir: Anlässlich einer Installation von Gerhard Richter
Hagner, Michael
2021

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Year

2021

Details

Hardback, 395 pages

ISBN

9783960983491

Language

German

Category

Monographs
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Gerhard Richter: Zwei graue Doppelspiegel für ein Pendel in Münster 2018
Schwarz, Dieter
2021

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Year

2021

Details

Softcover, 108 pages

ISBN

9783960989578

Language

German

Category

Monographs
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Gerhard Richter: Les cahiers
Pagé, Suzanne (ed.)
2020

Publisher

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris

Year

2020

Details

Softcover, 103 pages

ISBN

9782917217696

Language

French

Category

Collections
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Icons: Worship and adoration
Grunenberg, Christoph / Fischer-Hausdorf, Eva (ed.)
2019

Publisher

Hirmer, München

Year

2019

Details

Hardback, 384 pages

ISBN

978-3-7774-3396-7

Language

English

Category

Group Exhibitions

Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Icons: Worship and adoration', 19.10.2019-01.03.2020, Kunsthalle Bremen.

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Wo Es war. Vier Briefe an Gerhard Richter
Didi-Huberman, Georges
2018

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Year

2018

Editor

Elger, Dietmar

Details

Hardback, 190 pages

ISBN

978-3-96098-273-9

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Series 'Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; vol. 15'

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Zusammenspiel: Kunst im sakralen Raum
Resenberg, George / Zahner, Walter (ed.)
2018

Publisher

Deutsche Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst e. V., München

Year

2018

Details

Softcover, 210 pages

ISBN

978-3-7954-3376-5, 978-3-932322-51-8

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

Notes

Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Zusammenspiel: Kunst im sakralen Raum', 23.11.2018-9.2.2019, Galerie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für christliche Kunst e. V., Munich.

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Die Freiheit der Dinge: Ergänzungen zu Gerhard Richters Werkserie 48 Portraits
Miess, Heinrich
2018

Publisher

Strzelecki Books, Köln

Year

2018

Details

Hardback, 223 pages

ISBN

9783946770404

Language

German

Category

Monographs
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Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 2: 1968-1976, nos. 198 - 388
Elger, Dietmar
2017

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Berlin

Year

2017

Details

Hardback, 656 pages

ISBN

9783775719797

Language

German, English

Category

Monographs

As part of a comprehensive scholarly reassessment, in 2017 art historian and director of the Gerhard Richter Archive Dresden Dietmar Elger published the second of five planned volumes of Gerhard Richter's Catalogue Raisonné. ...

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Gerhard Richter: Neue Bilder / New Paintings
Dziewior, Yilmaz / Kersting, Rita (ed.)
2017

Publisher

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Year

2017

Details

Softcover, 70 pages

ISBN

9783960980940

Language

German, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen
Museum Folkwang (ed.)
2017

Publisher

Edition Folkwang / Steidl, Göttingen

Year

2017

Details

Softcover, 63 pages

ISBN

9783958293564

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays
McCarthy, Tom
2017

Publisher

The New York Review of Books, New York

Year

2017

Details

Softcover, 276 pages

ISBN

9781681370866

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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Doing identity: Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss
Krings, Julia / Weidner, Stella / SoKo-Bochum (ed.)
2017

Publisher

Stadt Bochum / Das Kunsthistorische Institut der Universität Bonn, Bochum / Bonn

Year

2017

Details

Softcover, 119 pages

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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The Artwork of Gerhard Richter. Painting, critical theory and cultural transformation
Ansted, Darryn
2016

Publisher

Routledge, Abingdon

Year

2016

Details

Hardback, 244 pages

ISBN

9781472409560

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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[un]erwartet. Kunst des Zufalls
Groos, Ulrike / Froitzheim, Eva-Marina (ed.)
2016

Publisher

Wienand Verlag, Köln

Year

2016

Details

Softcover, 168 pages

ISBN

9783868323412

Language

German, English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Abstraction and Appearance
Moorhouse, Paul
2016

Publisher

Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

Year

2016

Editor

Allenova, Ekaterina / d'Amora, Delphine

Details

Softcover, 151 pages

ISBN

9785905110818

Language

Russian, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. 14 Panes of Glass for Toyoshima, dedicated to futility
Elger, Dietmar / Hayashi, Sumi
2016

Publisher

Wako Works of Art Co., Ltd, Tokyo

Year

2016

Details

Softcover, 79 pages

ISBN

9784902070460

Language

Japanese, English

Category

Collections

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'Die Realität und das Göttliche'. Festschrift zum Jubiläum 1216 - 2016. Vom Deutschherrenhaus zum Ludwig Museum
Bayard, Frank / Fachbach, Jens / Heinz, Stefan / Leu, Suzana / Hesslinger, Mark R.
2016

Publisher

Ludwig Museum, Koblenz

Year

2016

Details

Softcover, 64 pages

ISBN

9783981687828

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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The Art of Gerhard Richter. Hermeneutics, Images, Meaning
Lotz, Christian
2015

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic, London

Year

2015

Details

Hardback, 237 pages

ISBN

9781472589019

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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Kirche sein als communio. Das neue Kirchenfenster im südlichen Querhaus des Kölner Domes von Gerhard Richter
Büttner, Gerhard
2015

Publisher

LIT, Berlin

Year

2015

Details

Softcover, 236 pages

ISBN

9783643128508

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Series: Ästhetik, Theologie, Liturgik, Vol. 62

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Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts
Elger, Dietmar / Butin, Hubertus / Mansoor, Jaleh
2015

Publisher

Dominique Lévy, New York

Year

2015

Details

Hardback, 140 pages

ISBN

9781944379018

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Bilder / Serien
Didi-Huberman, Georges / Elger, Dietmar / Kono, Michiko / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Schwarz, Dieter
2014

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Year

2014

Editor

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Details

Hardback, 188 pages

ISBN

978-3775738040, 3775738045

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Bilder / Serien accompanies Gerhard Richter’s eponymous exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. The show is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, a longstanding friend of Richter

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Glanzlichter. Gegenwartskunst Glasmalerei
Brülls, Holger
2014

Publisher

Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg

Year

2014

Details

Hardback, 232 pages

ISBN

9783731900856

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Köln. Eine Stadt in Biographien. Merian-Porträts
Driessen, Christoph / Lewandowski, Norbert
2014

Publisher

Travel-House-Media, München

Year

2014

Details

Softcover, 176 pages

ISBN

9783834217301

Language

German

Category

Monographs

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Gerhard Richter
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Schwarz, Dieter / Storr, Robert
2014

Publisher

Marian Goodman, London

Year

2014

Details

Hardback, 109 pages

ISBN

9780944219232

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Pictures / Series
Didi-Huberman, Georges / Elger, Dietmar / Kono, Michiko / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Schwarz, Dieter
2014

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

Year

2014

Editor

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Details

Hardback, 188 pages

ISBN

9783906053158, 9783775738057

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Pictures / Series accompanies Gerhard Richter’s exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler. The show is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, a longstanding friend of Richter

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Ein Blick durch Gerhard Richters 'Fensterbilder'. Eine Untersuchung des Sehens von Kunstwerken
Wojtys, Pia
2014

Publisher

AVM, München

Year

2014

Details

Softcover, 233 pages

ISBN

9783954770281

Language

German

Category

Theses

Notes

Thesis (Ph.D.). - Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 2014

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Germany Divided. Baselitz and his Generation. From the Duerckheim Collection
Stonard, John-Paul / MacGregor, Neil
2014

Publisher

British Museum Press, London

Year

2014

Details

Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN

9780714126906, 071412690X

Language

English

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Scheiben und Strips von Gerhard Richter. Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; Bd. 10
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Elger, Dietmar
2013

Publisher

Walther König, Köln

Year

2013

Details

Softcover, 71 pages

ISBN

9783863353629

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Series 'Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; vol. 10'

The small-format book Scheiben und Strips von Gerhard Richter comprises two essays: Gerhard Richter. Gläserne Revolte and Das Zufalls-Ornament. Malerei des Fortschritts by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh.

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Gerhard Richter. Streifen & Glas
Schwarz, Dieter / Storr, Robert
2013
This Explains Everything. Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works
Brockman, John / Diamond, Jared / Dawkins, Richard / Taleb, Nassim / Eno, Brian / Pinker, Steven / Obrist, Hans-Ulrich
2013

Publisher

Harper Perennial, New York, NY

Year

2013

Details

Softcover, 411 pages

ISBN

978-0062230171, 0062230174

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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Was die Bilder erzählen. Ein Rundgang durch mein imaginäres Museum
Wellershoff, Dieter
2013

Publisher

Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln

Year

2013

Details

Softcover, 367 pages

ISBN

9783462045550, 3462045555

Language

German

Category

Monographs

In Was die Bilder erzählen, the German essayist Dieter Wellershoff presents a tour through an imaginary museum. He introduces over 230 paintings, by some 80 artists

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Purer Zufall: Unvorhergesehenes von Marcel Duchamp bis Gerhard Richter
Rist, Annerose / Schwarz, Isabelle
2013

Publisher

Sprengel Museum, Hannover

Year

2013

Details

Softcover, 84 pages

ISBN

9783891692295, 3891692293

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter, Panorama: une rétrospective = a retrospective
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine
2012

Publisher

Édition du Centre Pompidou, Paris

Year

2012

Editor

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille

Details

Hardback, 304 pages

ISBN

978-2844265746, 284426574X

Language

French, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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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

Year

2012

Editor

Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille

Details

Hardback, 305 pages

ISBN

9783791351896

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. Atlas
Friedel, Helmut
2011

Publisher

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 862 pages

ISBN

9783863350567

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

2nd ed.

The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Atlas displays 783 plates of Gerhard Richter’s Atlas. Atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches, which the artist compiled and then arranged on single sheets

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective
Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine
2011
De-natured: German Art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger. Selections from the James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach Collection
Kass, Emily / Nisbet, Peter
2011
Gerhard Richter. Landscapes
Butin, Hubertus / Bätschmann, Oskar / Elger, Dietmar
2011

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 192 pages

ISBN

9783775726399

Language

English

Category

Monographs

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Il bordo del mondo: La forma sguardo nella pittura di Gerhard Richter
Garbin, Emanuele
2011

Publisher

Marsilio, Venezia

Year

2011

Details

Softcover, 219 pages

ISBN

9788831711128

Language

Italian

Category

Monographs

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Gerhard Richter. Rot-Gelb-Blau. Die Gemälde für BMW
Friedel, Helmut / Storr, Robert
2011

Publisher

Prestel, München

Year

2011

Details

Softcover, 128 pages

ISBN

9783791346168

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Gerhard Richter. Rot, Gelb, Blau by Helmut Friedel analyses and contextualises the paintings Red, Yellow and Blue [CR: 345/1-3] commissioned by BMW for their Munich headquarters, within the context of Richter’s œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter. Painting 2010–2011
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D.
2011

Publisher

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY and Paris

Year

2011

Details

Hardback, 60 pages

ISBN

0944219187

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter: Übersicht
Schubert, Sabine / Heinze, Helmut
2010

Publisher

Ernst-Rietschel-Kulturring, Pulsnitz

Year

2010

Details

Softcover, 35 pages

ISBN

9783981280944

Language

German

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting
Elger, Dietmar
2009

Publisher

University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

Year

2009

Details

Hardback, 408 pages

ISBN

9780226203232

Language

English

Category

Monographs

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter: Aquarelle und Zeichnungen
Schröder, Klaus Albrecht
2009

Publisher

Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit / Albertina, Wien

Year

2009

Editor

Steffen, Barbara

Details

Hardback, 176 pages

ISBN

9783775723473

Language

German, English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The book Gerhard Richter. Aquarelle und Zeichnungen was published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. Retrospektive at the Albertina in Vienna in 2009.

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Gerhard Richter. 4900 Colours
Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Gidal, Peter / Pelzer, Birgit / Peyton-Jones, Julia / Obrist, Hans Ulrich
2008

Publisher

Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit

Year

2008

Details

Hardback, 144 pages

ISBN

9783775723442

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

Exhibitions

The catalogue was published to coincide with the exhibition Gerhard Richter: 4900 Colours at the Serpentine Gallery in London in 2008.

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Gerhard Richter. Das Kölner Domfenster [DVD]
Belz, Corinna
2008

Publisher

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gerhard Richter Archiv, Dresden

Details

Unknown binding, 7 pages

ISBN

9783865605474

Language

German, English, French

Category

Films

Notes

Running time: 30 minutes

Series 'Schriften des Gerhard Richter Archiv Dresden ; vol. 2'

This documentary film about Richter’s Cologne Cathedral Window by Corinna Belz was released in 2007 in association with the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and the Gerhard Richter Archiv.

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Gerhard Richter, Maler
Elger, Dietmar
2008

Publisher

DuMont, Köln

Year

2008

Details

Softcover, 415 pages

ISBN

9783832190651

Language

German

Category

Monographs

Notes

Corrected and extended new edition.

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 development of his artistic œuvre.

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Gerhard Richter. Panorama
Lambrecht, Luk / Leen, Frederik / Storr, Robert
2008

Publisher

MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Gent

Year

2008

Details

Softcover, 101 pages

ISBN

9789076979533

Language

English

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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Gerhard Richter. Atlas
Friedel, Helmut
2006

Publisher

Thames & Hudson, London

Year

2006

Details

Hardback, 862 pages

ISBN

9780500970171

Language

English

Category

Monographs

Notes

Encyclopedic new edition,which 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 the heart of the artist's work

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Gerhard Richter. Atlas
Friedel, Helmut
2006

Publisher

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

Year

2006

Details

Hardback, 862 pages

ISBN

9783883758015

Language

German

Category

Monographs

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 the heart of the artist's work

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Isa Genzken, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte. 3 x 5 Arbeiten
Junge, Winfried / Krämer, Gerd
2005

Publisher

Kunstverein Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach

Year

2005

Details

Softcover, 16 pages

Language

German

Category

Group Exhibitions

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