Overpainted Photographs

Since the mid 1980s Gerhard Richter has created more than 2,000 Overpainted Photographs – with new artworks continually being produced. This large body of work illustrates Richter’s wide range of creative achievement in this medium.

Gerhard Richter has created a large number of Overpainted Photographs in his career and new works are still being produced. In order to establish as definitive an inventory as possible of his Overpainted Photographs, we are collecting any of the following data:

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Series / edition	Select.. Firenze (edition) Florence (series) Grauwald Museum Visit Sils Wald 128 Fotos von einem Bild (Halifax 1978) 8.2.92
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Exhibition history Gerhard Richter: Paintings and Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA, 07 May 2016 – 25 June 2016 Gerhard Richter: Painting, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 11 November 2015 – 19 December 2015 Gerhard Richter: Das kleine Format, Galerie Schwarzer, Düsseldorf, Germany, 23 April 2015 – 15 June 2015 Overpainting: Beard, Christo, Nabil, Neshat, Ontani, Rainer, Richter, Schifano, The Lone T Art Space, Milan, Italy, 11 April 2015 – 15 May 2015 Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 21 March 2015 – 18 April 2015 Overpainting: Beard, Christo, Kiefer, Nabil, Neshat, Ontani, Rainer, Richter, Schifano, Repetto Gallery, London, UK, 05 February 2015 – 20 March 2015 Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK, 14 October 2014 – 20 December 2014 What is a Photograph?, International Center of Photography, New York, USA, 31 January 2014 – 04 May 2014 Purer Zufall: Unvorhersehbares von Marcel Duchamp bis Gerhard Richter, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany, 15 May 2013 – 15 September 2013 Gerhard Richter: Beirut, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon, 27 April 2012 – 16 June 2012 Gerhard Richter: Arbeiten 1968–2008, Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 12 November 2011 – 14 January 2012 Gerhard Richter: Editionen und Übermalte Fotografien, Wolfram Völcker Fine Art, Berlin, Germany, 01 September 2011 – 31 October 2011 De-Natured: German Art from Joseph Beuys to Martin Kippenberger. Selections from the James Keith Brown and Eric Diefenbach Collection, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, USA, 08 April 2011 – 10 July 2011 Gerhard Richter: New Overpainted Photographs, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 05 February 2010 – 13 March 2010 Best of Fifty Years, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, 28 November 2009 – 07 February 2010 PhotoEspaña 2009: Gerhard Richter, Fotografías pintadas, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain, 03 June 2009 – 26 July 2009 The Photographic Object, The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, 23 April 2009 – 13 June 2009 Gerhard Richter: Übermalte Fotografien / Photographies Peintes, Centre de la photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland, 20 February 2009 – 10 May 2009 Gerhard Richter: Übermalte Fotografien, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany, 17 October 2008 – 18 January 2009 Gerhard Richter: New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 05 November 2005 – 24 December 2005 Gerhard Richter, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA, 28 June 2005 – 19 August 2005 Gerhard Richter – Editionen 1968–2004, Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 04 June 2005 – 30 July 2005 ATTACK: ATTRACTION Painting/Photography, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, USA, 05 December 2002 – 01 February 2003 Gerhard Richter: 10th Anniversary 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 12 December 2002 – 31 January 2003 Gerhard Richter: Firenze, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA, 21 June 2002 – 30 August 2002 Gerhard Richter – Editionen 1969–1998, Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 11 March 2001 – 19 May 2001 Gerhard Richter. Übermalte Fotografien, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany, 05 October 2000 – 27 October 2000 Gerhard Richter: Bilder 1972–1996, Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 16 May 1998 – 25 July 1998 Gerhard Richter, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 24 October 1997 – 28 November 1997 Gerhard Richter Part II: Painting, Mirror Painting, Watercolour, Photograph, Print, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 08 May 1996 – 31 May 1996 Gerhard Richter – Editionen 1967–1993, Galerie Bernd Lutze, Friedrichshafen, Germany, 22 January 1994 – 12 March 1994 Gerhard Richter: Sils, Nietzsche-Haus, Sils Maria, Switzerland, July 1992 – March 1993 Other exhibitions

Publication history Gerhard Richter: Abstract Paintings and Drawings (Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Schwarz, Dieter). Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2016 Gerhard Richter: Painting (Shimizu, Minoru). Wako Works of Art Co., Tokyo, 2015 Overpainting (Barbero, Luca Massimo). Nuvole Rosse, Milan, 2015 Gerhard Richter (Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Schwarz, Dieter / Storr, Robert). Marian Goodman, London, 2014 What is a Photograph? (Squiers, Carol / Baker, George / Batchen, Geoffrey / Steyerl, Hito). Prestel, New York, NY, 2014 Purer Zufall: Unvorhergesehenes von Marcel Duchamp bis Gerhard Richter (Rist, Annerose / Schwarz, Isabelle). Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 2013 Gerhard Richter: Beirut (Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Joreige, Lamia / Dagner, Sandra). Beirut Art Center, Beirut / Heni Publishing, London / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2012 Best of Fifty Years: Kunstverein Wolfsburg (Hoffmann, Justin / Köhler, Volkmar). Argobooks, Berlin, 2009 Obrist - O'Brist (Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2009 Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs (Heinzelmann, Markus / Schneede, Uwe M. / Strauss, Botho / Hustvedt, Siri). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2008 Gerhard Richter: Übermalte Fotografien (Heinzelmann, Markus / Schneede, Uwe M. / Strauß, Botho / Hustvedt, Siri). Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2008 Gerhard Richter 2005 Gerhard Richter: City Life per Contempoartensemble (Corà, Bruno / Restagno, Enzo / Gori, Giuliano). Gli Ori, Prato, 2002 Gerhard Richter (Shimizu, Minoru). Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, 2002 Gerhard Richter: Sils (Richter, Gerhard / Obrist, Hans Ulrich / Bloch, Peter André). D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY, 2002 Gerhard Richter: Florence (Elger, Dietmar). Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001 Gerhard Richter 1996 1996 Other publications

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