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Germany Divided: Baselitz and his Generation, From the Duerckheim Collection

British MuseumLondonUK

06 February 2014 - 31 August 2014

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2.1.78
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1978 14.8 cm x 21 cm Catalogue Raisonné:

Watercolour on paper

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Title

Author

Date

Gerhard Richter. Aquarelle = Watercolors 1964 - 1997

Schwarz, Dieter

1999

Publisher

Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf

Year

1999

Details

Hardback, 153 pages

ISBN

3933807050

Category

Solo Exhibitions

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For the artist, producing works on paper creates a reflective distance from his painterly oeuvre. It is clearly evident that time and time again Richter returns to watercolours when his oil work moves into a new direction. This is for example apparent when looking at Richter’s abstract pictures. He began to explore different themes and while doing we find the appearance of his first abstract watercolours as well. They are obviously to a different scale and medium but they go to provide a base from which his larger paintings can play off of, and vice versa.

This book is composed of over 100 colour reproductions of Richter’s watercolours, as well as a discussion between the artist and Dieter Schwarz examining the diverse strands within his work.

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